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July 20, 2025, 07:05:24 AM

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Saw it yesterday killing time before my flight home. I hadn't heard anything about it, so I had no preconceived notions. I liked it. It was silly and cheesy in parts, and a bit long, but I was entertained. I wasn't expected a deep, character driven drama; I wanted high fantasy fun and mayhem. It delivered.

I have a deep and abiding man-crush on Johnny Depp, and a normal red-blooded hetero crush on Keira Knightley. If she ever decides to eat and give her chance to grow some breasts, she could rule the world.

You may have seen this by now - but the review below covers Pirates2 even better than the quote about cucumber sandwiches above.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWq89t9q5gg

Wow. That guy is beyond amateur filmmaker/writer/reviewer. Someone give him a job.

I liked the art direction.

There's this scene with the Black Pearl listing on a beach at high tide. Just beautiful. The Flying Dutchman is an amazing set (I could do without most of its crew...) Davy Jones and his Kraken are magnificent constructions. The various towns (native, voodoo, pirate, navy) are all extremely evocative and all their details are well chosen. Everything looks spectacular.

So where are the visual gags?

Some of the most inspired moments in the last film were wordless jokes. Jack's arrival into port on a sinking ship. A fork in the wooden eye. Various ghost pirate jokes. This movie, with the possible exception of Jack's misadventures with fruit and a spit, has humorless set-pieces. There are some jocular snippets from Jack and the wacky pirate pair from the last film, but Davy Jones has no sense of humor at all. Most everything is bleak and grim.

As the two hour mark came and went I was curious how, with absolutely none of the movie's myriad sub-plots resolved, this film was going to come to a satisfying conclusion... and it turned out that it wasn't. Not a single thing is satisfactorily resolved. I wanted out and Bruckheimer wanted me to sit through another movie. To quote Governor Weatherby Swann (a delightful cross between nebbish and straight-man in the previous film, totally wasted here) "Where's that dog with the keys?"

I didn't mind the lack of gags. It was, after all, Empire Strikes back.

Edit: And every director in the world can feel free to replace teh funneh with teh Stellan Skaarsgard.

No cannibal island = great movie in my boat, the whole sequence was just a bore. As it is, I thought it was good. I enjoyed Davy Jones, but agree that Barbosa was the best bad.

I hope at least one other person stayed to the end of the credits. Gave me a laugh.

saw it yesterday... good but the action scenes were too overthetop for me, seemed like the writers had this "pull out all tricks" attitude. Also really long, did they really need almost an hour on that stupid cannibal island which had very little plot relevance even though it was entertaining?

I saw this past weekend. I liked it, although I thought the first one was better. I didn't like the ending. They might as well put a giant "To be continued..." up on the screen.

Quote from: Raging Turtle on July 26, 2006, 07:50:51 AM

I hope at least one other person stayed to the end of the credits. Gave me a laugh.

Can you give a brief description? I had a bad case of exploding bladder and had to leave before the credits finished.

Was just a little scene back on Cannibal Isle. This time the Dog's king.

The only reason I can come up with the long cannibal isle scene is they're going to feature in movie #3 somehow. Maybe like eating DJ's heart, or somesuch. I dunno, just seems so much of the movie was wasted there.

Also; my mother seems to think the vodoo priestess is going to be DJ's lost-love. I think that's crazy-talk, but wondered if anyone else had come to a similar conclusion.