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

[Gemini Cricket]

$132 mil for 'Pirates 2' this weekend. New record.
Wow!



(Haven't seen it yet...)

[Moonliner]

Seeing the wreck Disney made of the script (or lack there of) for Dead Mans Chest, it makes me wonder what ever happened to Royce Mathew who was suing Disney for, as I remember, some not so subtle coincidences between a pirate movie he made and the first PoTC. His website seems to have gone blank...

[wendybeth]

We just got back from seeing the movie, and first things first: Damn you, Alex! I waited through interminable credits for a three second spot at the very end of the movie. That made me cranky.

I liked it. It's a good mid-trilogy movie, plain and simple. I didn't love it like the first, but I was prepared for major disappointment and was pleasantly surprised. This is an action flick, and nothing more- I doubt the producers, writers or anyone else were working under the delusion that this was 'art'. On that level, it totally delivers. I was thrilled to see Barbossa again- he was such a great villain that it promises to make the third movie all that much better. Same with Norrington- I kept thinking about how he derided his role in the first movie, calling his character a pompous ass, etc, and longing to get down and scruffy with the rest of them. Well, he does scruffy quite well and I was pleased (for him) that he got to play pirate in this turn.

Tia was cool- looks like she needs to lay off the licorice ice cream, but she was a fun character. I was tempted to yell like iSm during the Bayou scene, but I'm fairly certain few would have understood the call for rolls in our little burg. It was fun to see so many Pirates allusions in this film, but I agree with GC- the dog thing was overkill. Anyway, that's my take on it- but keep in mind my attention was tempered by the disturbing fact that our neighbor next door had just been taken away in an ambulance prior to our leaving for the movie- his wife had come home and discovered him on the floor, with no pulse and his young toddler climbing on him. We phoned as soon as we got home and his MIL said he'd suffered a major heart attack and was in very critical condition. We don't know these people very well, as they are very quiet and reserved, but they are very nice and too young to have to go through this.

[Alex]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that the reason people were asking me what the post-credit scene was is because my review said to just skip it and if they were curious to email me and I'd tell them what it was.

Definitely not worth 10 minutes of credit sitting. I was credits anyway so it wasn't a big deal.

[Gemini Cricket]

I haven't read any of the reviews yet so bear with any repitition here in this post.


We saw it last night and I didn't hate it. I didn't love it, either.

Good Stuff:
-I like Johnny Depp's character. It's wonderful seeing him do more of his Jack schtick.
-Davey Jones, the love child of Sebastian and Ursula, is fantastic. One of the best CG characters ever. Bill Nighy is one of my favorite character actors right now. He's superb. I kept wanting to see more and more of him.
-Tom Hollander is a good actor as well. He appeared in 'Pride and Prejudice', too with Knightley. He's a huge presence onscreen for being just 5'5".
-Loved Tia Dalma.
-Liked the three way sword fight.
-Loved the Davey Jones crew. Sea Monkeys gone wrong. Love it.
-Barbossa. Fun ending to the film. I knew it was him when the monkey took a liking to his boots as he was in bed. Is he dead? Was he dead? wtf?
-Shooting the monkey.
-Shooting the crow.
-The film's score is wonderful.

Bad Stuff:
-They could have cut the whole cannibal section and it wouldn't have hurt the film. It could have trimmed a half hour off of this lengthy film.
-Orlando Bloom... boring.
-Keira Knightley (I've said it a million times) needs to close her mouth. It doesn't need to be open all the time... especially when she's not saying anything...
-Too much Kraken. It's weird that the Kraken could destroy a ship in 2 seconds or 10 minutes depending on his mood...
-The heart controls the Kraken as does the plunger thing on the ship?
-Shell Head guy... wtf?
-There were too many 'remember this folks?' moments in this film that referred to the first one. Sequelitis. That and too many 'ta-da remember me from the first film' moments. Bleh.
-Film was tooooo long.
-Sparrow as a love interest? Creepy.
-What happened to the African American lady who was on Jack's crew?
-Compass shenanigans. Confusing.
-Why didn't DJ keep his heart with him?
-Too many rum jokes.
-No 'Yo Ho Yo Ho' song in this one. Bad director.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

-The heart controls the Kraken as does the plunger thing on the ship?

I believe the idea is that the "heart" controls the guy (davey) that controls the Kraken.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I believe the idea is that the "heart" controls the guy (davey) that controls the Kraken.

Ah.

I don't know why, but that reminded me of a quote:
Miss Scarlet: Why would he want to kill you in public?
Wadsworth: I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her.