Gotta love the movie, gotta hate the ending.

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2006)

Where to start? Well, I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll be as vague as possible. The movie is great. Every character, from Jack to Will and even Elizabeth have all evolved with better fighting skills, worse people skills, and much wittier repartee. The new characters of Davy Jones, Tia Dalma and Cutler Beckett (Oh wait, its LORD Cutler Beckett. as he says) are excellent, as is the new version of James Norrington. And the special effects (particularly the Kraken) are the best I've seen since Star Wars III.
The storyline is also good, nothing is predictable, there are no gaps (except for one, the ending, but I'll get to that), and everything unfolds at just the right pace. The multiple story lines are handled so that no-one gets confused, and you know where everyone is at one time.
However, there are two personal problems with the movie. One, being Will's father, Bootstrap Bill. It is really hard to believe that he IS Will's father. He's occasionally weak-willed, gentle and over-protective. And he's really ugly to add a further insult.
And, two, the ending, I really hate cliffhangers, especially when the next movie is a year away. And there's so many things left to finish. What happened to Jack? What happened to Barbossa? To Davy Jones? To Bootstrap Bill? To Governor Swann? There's too many loose ends to remember for a year.
Anyways, thats the only two problems with the movie that I can see. It's a excellent movie all up, on par and even better in some ways than the prequel. See it, buy it, love it.