Just no effort........ very disappointing.

Rating: 2/10 (5 August 2006)

I'd just like to say, before I tear apart this film, that I am a huge Pirates of the Caribbean fan andI have seen the first film a countless number of times. So for me to say this film is bad is really saying something about it. Also I haven't got time to go into all of the bad points here but these are just a few of the main ones.
This film has to be one of the worst films I have ever seen, I was glad when it came to the unexpected and ebrupt end that it does (halfway through a conversation almost!). This film seems as though no effort has gone into it and that the developers have just relied on the success of the first film to trick people into parting with their money to see a film that is in all fairness, rubbish. The acting is on the whole awful with even Johnny Depp failing to delight, he overplays his success in the last film to such an extext that it becomes silly. None of the actors even look like they want to be in the film and that it certainly portrayed in the quality of the film. The pirates of Davey Joneses ship just look like men in fish suits, nothing like the quality of the skeletons in the first film.
Most of the time you cannot hear what the actors are saying and a lot of the (unfunny) jokes made by Depp are lost on the audience simply because he mumbles them. Another thing that let the film down was the camera work. The spinning wheel scene for example(apart from being over the top, unfunny and silly) was awful the camera was so close to the actors that you couldn't really see what was going on, not that you would want to anyway.
The scene when the crew are searching for Jack Sparrow is another disaster, it makes the film feel low budget and like a documentary with no - experience extras being interviewed.
There are a huge amount of just unfunny and silly scenes that do not work at all, the swinging in the balls scene with the stupid fairground music playing in the background.
Throughout the whole film the developers just live on the past merits of the first film bringing back almost all of the old characters and not offering the viewer anything new, even some of the scenes in the new film are exactly the same as in the old film for example the throwing in the pig pen to name just one.
This film is full of plot flaws, people suddenly apearing when one second ago they were being chased by angry tribes or held captive on ships and there is just no story line at all.
BAD POINTS (apart from the film in general)
The acting The effort gone into making it The story line (it's just one ship being eaten after another basically) Nothing new It's not funny The charm of the first film has vanished + many more The ending is awful It is very predictable
GOOD POINTS
Contrary to what I have already said 'the ending', I was glad for it to end! The sneaky 'extra' scene about what happened to the dog (after the credits)
HUGE Disappointment!