Boring Jack Sparrow copy singing CONSTANTLY!

Rating: 3/10 (18 February 2008)

I am so amazed over these high ratings of this movie and I just have to say that it is the most overrated film I've ever seen! I saw that almost every newspaper in Sweden gave this movie top scores and therefor I just had to see it! However, I got really disappointed. The story seemed exciting and appealing and the photography was really good, but that was probably it...
There are two types of musicals. There's one where they sing nice songs now and then to illustrate a critical moment in the movie and that seems fit for just that moment, and then there is the other one. The other one where they sing CONSTANTLY. No matter what they are talking about or what happens on screen. This movie is one of these musicals. Those few moments when the talked like normal people, I actually found myself saying: "Aren't they going to sing a comment about that meaningless small bird sitting in a tree?" for example, and of course - they started singing about that damned bird.
Johnny Depp sure does have a nice voice to listen to and so does Helena Bonham Carter. This does not mean I enjoy hearing them sing for 90 minutes straight! The worst part of all was that you couldn't really hear what they were singing about either because the tempo was sooooo high! Their thousand word lyrics didn't even match the melody of the music!
Furthermore - I would like to comment Johnny Depps acting. I know that he has been praised a lot for his acting skills. I can agree that he is extremely talented in playing a crazy pirate or some kind of other figure in delirium who has a problem in pronouncing the letter S properly... They are all the same!!! This movie to me was awfully boring since the songs all sounded the same. It was like they sung without melody? This movie could easily have been around 30 minutes long or less if they; instead of singing a three minute aria about a young boys insight about getting the woman of his dreams (which he, by the way, only had seen for like a minute sitting in a window), they could just say "Someday she will be mine." We get the point anyway...
And beware for un-countable times when Johnny is holding up his barbers knife in the air in front of him. What's up with that?! One time is enough, but I think he does it like 10 times or something - and of course - always with a mediocre song to accompany him.