Not particularly good...

Rating: 2/10 (8 July 2006)

I went in to the very first Pirates movie expecting to dislike it, and ended up enjoying it very much instead. Funny, exciting, and just plain enjoyable.
Imagine me quite sad to find then, that Pirates 2, in just about every way possible, is the total opposite of the original. After all is said and done, it can most damningly be summed up as flat out boring.
Oh yes, all out favorite characters are back, but the pacing and script are all over the place, and frankly it feels like we've already been there through most of it. We spend almost an hour with barely anything of note going on, and then for the remainder find the movie entangled in trilogy-itus. Plot line after plot line introduced, with no intention of wrapping thing up before we've gone on to see Pirates 3, coming out next year.
Which would be fine of course, if this movie remained action packed and entertaining on it's own, but aside from a few random sparks, and an "almost there" but not quite ending section, this movie failed to recapture the fun of the first for me.
Perhaps Pirates 3 can recapture the magic lost in what was essentially a 2 1/2 hour setup film, but I'm not particularly sure about that...