Hugely disappointing - where's the story?

Rating: 2/10 (10 July 2006)

Okay, Johnny Depp is wonderful, the movie looks good and there are some funny lines. However, I was greatly let down by the apparent absence of story or plot. This over-long film seems to be simply one incident after another, with no real sense of where the characters are going, no real coherence or continuity. A series of events does not a story make. The effects are - surprisingly - a little ropey too, the Kraaken looking less realistic than a live octopus. I was a huge fan of part 1 and really wanted to love this film. It's just a pity that the talented cast wasn't given more juicy lines and their characters more juicy predicaments. My advice to the producers for part 3: get some writers on board!