excellent adventure, yet curse of the black pearl it is not

Rating: 8/10 (15 July 2006)

excellent adventure, yet curse of the black pearl it is not. don't get me wrong i enjoyed this film thoroughly yet i felt that the story was a little mixed and not played out with enough depth. i cant fault the cast as the acting was brilliant, the story seemed to be a bridge to the third part, along the lines of the second matrix film. i don't mean that this film was rubbish as reloaded was but i felt that this film was a stop gap. my main problem is with davey jones and his crew, we don't find out why they are the way they are and i also did not find them as menacing as barbossa' undead crew from the first film. the inconsistency of the kraaken monster, when it destroys ships at the beginning of the film it does it quickly and the crews have no chance of survival yet when the pearl is attacked our heroes are given a chance to defeat the monster or at least temporarily. the action comes quick and there is plenty of it all the way through the film, along with many more laughs from start to finish and i think this is what carries the film along with the ever charismatic depp. a must see film, but only because the first film was so good. bring on number three.