"The Curse of the Unintended Trilogy"

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2006)

First off let me say that it was a great action adventure movie with lots of fun sword fighting, ship battles, and rum jokes. That said; it was not nearly as good as the first movie. Here is why.
The first "Pirates" movie was a stand-alone story with solid intro, plot development, and closure. When the movie did as well as it did, the 'Big Wigs' told the writers to expand the story into a trilogy. The writers never planned to develop an extended story so they ended up pulling one out of their arrses. If you need another good example of this, look a the Matrix trilogy. As opposed to having a well planned out trilogy storyline such as "Star Wars" or "Lord of the Rings" it simply stretched the concept out, recycled old jokes, and left us with so many plot treads to contemplate at the end that we basically need to watch the final installment for closure on this movie.
The acting is as good as always, and as far as the character development goes; Knightley is the only one who's character kinda takes a dive as she is now "love torn" between Bloom and Depp's character. When did this happen? I don't know either.
Despite it's problems it still kept me on the edge of my seat and I would suggest going to see it just for the beautiful cinematography and action.