Very Boring waste of a franchise

Rating: 2/10 (11 January 2007)

I have to admit that I don't normally like Hollywood blockbuster movies but there are some notable exceptions, Star Wars, Jurrasic Park, LOTR and the original POTC. The reason that I liked all these films was because they were entertaining in a non-patronising way, fun, funny in parts and grand.
Yet POTC 2 is none of those things, the comedy all comes from Johnny Depp being a shifty Pirate (more exaggerated from his fantastic role in the first film) and normally involves him walking funny! All of the set pieces were too long, non sensical and had little if anything to do with the storyline. And what a storyline it is. I struggled to tell what was really going on for most of the film but perhaps that was because I was fighting for consciousness most of the time.
The first film felt like some people wanted to make a great Pirate movie whereas this one is purely a money-spinner with little point other than to get to the 3rd film (Matrix anyone?!). I'm at odds whether to see the 3rd one when it comes out(I never saw Matrix 3).