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

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

It's frustrating when you have a vehicle that is proven to work well and you screw it up. There was so much potential for this film and it didn't come close to what it could've been.

Maybe that helped me not be disappointed. I did not have high hopes for this movie. In all the history of sequels (to quality movies) there are only a handful that are of approximately the same quality as the first film and only two* that (in my opinion, of course) really surpasses the first - The Empire Strikes Back and Aliens.

So my assumption is that a sequel will be worse than the original. I don't think that Dead Man's Chest is as good as Curse of the Black Pearl but then I wasn't expecting it to be and perhaps as a result this means I am happy with as well as it turned out.


*I also consider Babe: Pig in the City to be vastly superior to the first one but most people look at me like I've a third head when I say that so I keep it my little secret.