Worth the price of admission? Yes!! Worth seeing 7 times?

Rating: 7/10 (31 July 2006)

hmmm...
I cannot imagine a movie I have wanted to see more (since birth). Pirates. Arrgh (and all that). It seems that it is impossible to screw up. Okay, so Disney didn't "screw it up." But it was a minor disappointment in many ways. Lotsa action - no surprise there. Great special effects (of course) - and then there was Johhny Depp who, at this rate, will one day will surpass Sean Connery as the most important - and coolest actor of all time.
But it was too much of a kids movie (yeah, yeah... I should have read the loud "MADE BY Disney" letters stamped all over it before whining that there were too many "bonk" sound effect moments foley'ed in. I couldn't help but feel that they tried to downplay Depp to "balance the movie" as if it were possible to make Jack Sparrow "too cool." I hope the next film won't be as apologetic ("We are sorry that Johnny Depp stole the first movie and inadvertently shoved that "Bloom" guy and his cohort actress to the wings by his blisteringly hot performance of a 'drunken pirate.' Yeah, yeah, everyone was great - the third looks to be fun as well. Stay to the end of the credits if for some crazy reason you haven't seen this movie yet. Oh well... maybe I will see it a few more times... stupid kid's movies and all...