Unnecessarily creepy

Rating: 2/10 (8 July 2006)

The first Pirates of the Caribbean was a real swash-buckling adventure! It was light-hearted enough to keep you from peeing your pants, but deep enough to keep you interested. Pirates of the Caribbean 2 lacks both of these. Sure there are some witty lines and funny moments ( for example, the cannibal inhabited island ), but these hardly make up for the dark, demonic scenes on the Flying Dutchman. Not to mention some pretty gruesome prosthetics. I found myself with my hands covering my eyes more than once during this movie. I was hoping for another swash buckling, light-hearted adventure. Instead I found myself waiting for daylight to come on the screen and praying that I wouldn't have night mares. The producers of this movie had a tough job in trying to make it as good as or better than the first. Unfortunately, they chose to go about doing this by making it scarier and more gruesome. More witty dialogue and involvement of relationships between characters is probably what was needed here. I think I may just be reading about what happens in the third movie.