A little less then a full bottle of rum.

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2006)

With the first "Pirates" movie, I went into not expecting much. The second time around, my hopes where much higher for this movie, yet unfortunately they were unfulfilled. Most of the humor of the movie was just run-offs from the last movie, beating the "rum" running gag to death. They seemed to spend all their time with special effects instead of investing it into making an easy to follow plot. The swash-buckling feel the first "Pirates" left you with seemed to be absent from this movie. Instead, you were just wondering how much longer was left in the movie.
There were bright points to this movie, such as Jack Davenport as Norrington. Johnny Depp will not disappoint his legion of teeny-bopper fans that fell in love with him in the first "Pirates" though, it may make some more die hard Johnny fans disappointed to see him play the same character once again.
Some are calling this the new age's "Empire Strikes Back," but I think a closer association would be to "Phantom Menace." For me, I'll just leave my midnight showings to "Harry Potter" from now on.