Pirates of the Caribbean II - a quick review...

[itsjustaname]

Much like the Back To The Future trilogy, this middle part is overly long, has a confused plot, isn't as much fun as the first movie and appears to serve only to set up the third movie

Comments

[trampledamage]

This is useful information - ta!

[itsjustaname]

I live to serve.

[trampledamage]

cookies?

[itsjustaname]

Funnily enough I did toy with making that comment 'I live to serve (muffins)' but decided against it.

[mitchy]

I have to disagree. Some of the set pieces, particularly the ocean scenes, need to be seen on a big screen with surround sound. And it might be too long, but you don't sit in the cinema looking at your watch wondering how long there is to go. At least, I didn't. :)

[itsjustaname]

I did, metaphorically anyway as I don't wear a watch.

[moral_vacuum]

I tend to go by how badly my coccyx hurts at the end of the film. If I have difficulty standing up without going "AAACH! JESUS!", the film was too long.

[itsjustaname]

If I'm conscious of time passing then it's a bad sign. I don't care how long a actually movie is, but if it seems long when I'm watching it then that's not good. Interview With A Vampire is only about 90 mins long but by the tiome it had finished I thought I'd been sat there for five hours!

[bluescissors76]

they did a display page in Entertainment Weekly indicating that all of Johnny Depp's movies together have grossed $1.8 billion. Of course the bulk of that is the two Pirates movies, but it's pretty cool to see all the movies he's been in. I'm partial to Chocolat and Edward Scissorhands.

[itsjustaname]

I think Cry Baby and Benny & Joon are my favourites.

[viscount_s]

It struck me as being very much a holywood-sequel-by-the-numbers. Take one very good original movie, boil down to bare essence, add SFX (but take no risks with anything vaguely new, as it must slavishly repeat the same -winning- formula) add marginally less coherent plot, boil & serve.

The only real problem I had was that it was a lot darker than the first film, but at the same time, they went for special FX, rather than acting. The crew of the Flying Dutchman would have been much better had they just been actors who were allowed to (shock) act...

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[viscount_s]

By the way, did everyone stay until the very very end, to see the bit after the credits?

S

[ivory_goddess]

Yeah - longest flippin' credits in recorded history (or so it seemed) and then the extra bit wasn't bloody worth it!

Gah!

[viscount_s]

Yup! I felt exactly the same way!