Just didn't live up

Rating: 4/10 (29 May 2011)

I wanted to like this story, I really did. There were simply too many elements of the original story left out. The dynamics of the scoundrel in waiting in Orlando Bloom and the sexual tension of Kiera Knightly were both sorely missed in this film. Even the quirky interactions with the ships crew were absent, and took away from the charm of the film. Yes, Depp is the star but it is the interaction with those characters that express the greatness of the "Jack Sparrow" character. Without them the acting was flat.
Plus the constantly changing Barbosa character is making me dizzy and Penelope Cruz was just a pretty straw man. The ending was stuffed with feel good one liners.
The movie had a few laughs, but I missed the old characters and the new ones didn't make up the distance.