Get It Off Your (Dead Man's) Chest: Pirates Movie Reviews

[Alex]

I'm curious, iSm, what you hated about the first one and then later decided you were wrong about it?

I agree that the first one did a great job with character introduction but then after that I feel it was all over the place in plotting. But then this one didn't do character introductions except for Davy Jones and otherwise assumes you know who everybody is from the first movie (interestingly Slate's critic to review this film saw it without ever seeing the first one; she hated it).

As for it just being a set up for the next movie, has there ever been a movie that already has its sequal written that isn't mostly a setup for the next movie? There aren't a lot of examples of this but almost by definition the earlier part is going to be incomplete on its own as will the latter part (but you won't be left hanging, obviously).

Since I Disney hasn't been shy about the fact that the two movies were written and filmed together I don't really have a problem with the format more common to television.