Pirates of the Caribbean II Dead Man's Chest

[SegatakaiIdaten]

So the long awaited sequal movie to the loved Curse of the Black Pearl. Well It is darker than the first one in plot and acting. As you all know Davy Jones is in it. But there is absolutly NO story behind the his legend! Grrr... but other than that its really a great movie. Quick spoiler... there is going to be a third. There is no doubt... if you see it you will know. Also there is a scean at the end. Its kind of funny. Nothing you HAVE to see. Well thats about it.

[Kiri]

Yeah. The third one is coming out next summer. There were always plans to be three, though. ^_^

Meh. Don't feel like talking about this in detail right now. XD Best line: "WHERE'S THE THUMP-THUMP!?"

Poor Norrington.

[SeraphMazrakiel]

There will be spoilers in this post. So if you were foolish enough to click on this thread or check what the last ten posts were and you can't keep your eyes in check without seeing this movie, I blame your relatively curious nature for spoiling it.

Haha, I actually really enjoyed this movie. Alot of people I know thought it was like, merely watchable (as opposed to it being enjoyable) but the more I think about it, the more addictive it gets. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that my current girlfriend is a big Pirates fan... but it was fun. Granted, I do think it was an incredibly long movie.

I do agree that they didn't go into as much detail about Davy Jones' legend as I would've liked. He also didn't have the same class that Barbosa had in the first movie. I'd take undead pirates over fishmen anyday. XD

The whole movie also felt very much like Monkey Island; The scene where they go see voodoo lady I felt was a complete nod to when Guybrush goes to see Voodoo Lady in Monkey Island 2. Perhaps they're just coincidental... (but I do remember reading in an interview with the creator of the Monkey Island series that the PotC ride partly inspired The Secret of Monkey Island when it came out over ten years ago, and it wouldn't surprise me if they both nodded to each other XD) ... but I liked it. What also annoyed me was the return of Barbosa. I kept going "Ha! Here he comes, he's back!" all the way through the movie but he didn't turn up. And during the mass of scenes at the end (the part where my girlfriend and I were crying because we knew we'd actually HAVE to come see the third one), I'd completely forgotten about him, so when he turned up I was like "BAH. I hate you! Why'd you turn up now, at the end of the movie?!" lol

I also was thinking "HAR HAR WOULDN'T IT BE FUNNY IF IT WERE GUYBRUSH THREEPWOOD?" XD

But all round, it was a good movie. Jack Sparrow's still his usual classy self. And uh, poor Norrington, for the most part. XD Awesome job.

[Kiri]

Uh. Spoilers. What? What was that? I didn't say anything. Sh-shu-sha-shu-shuushhh.

Since I never said it, I really liked this one. I don't think it had the same sort of ... feel as the last one. Epic, I guess? That sounds ridiculous considering it's a movie about Davey Jones and a freakin' KRAKKEN ... but that's just how I felt. This, by the way, may be due to the FREAKING ANTICLIMAX CURSE YOU PEOPLE AND YOUR SUSPENSE I HATE YOU.

<3

Hm.

Okay. Jack Sparrow. Jack was cool, but that's to be expected. He wasn't quite as cool/clever as he was in the first one, but then ... he did have some issues. The last one he wasn't quite in as much trouble. XD It was also fun to see Will being awesome, since he was still sort of all like "zomg I'm a twit" for most of the first.

Stupid barnacle-face. XD Also, octupi are nasty. And Davey Jones is a squiddy-squiddy-squidhead! *throws stuff at him*

Norrington made me sad. I felt like at the end of the first movie he had a lot of potential to sort of loosen up, or at least become less of a jerk. I mean, the movie ended on, "Oh, I think we can afford to give him one day's head start." And then the next thing we know he's turned into Gibbs as seen previously.

The irony is not lost on me, obviously. Gibbs and Norrington were both men of the fleet, but I think what's being ignored here is the stark contrast in their characters. Gibbs was always kind of a drunken lunatic. He was a freakin' nutjob (see beginning of Black Pearl XD). But Norrington was always pragmatic and we never really saw him drinking. Losing the Interceptor was bad, as was letting Jack Sparrow go... but the man was a Commodore, not a random soldier. He had the power to make decisions, and someone as intelligent as Norrington should have and would have thought of a way to make his superiors understand his reasoning.

Then again, there was that business of the hurricane. As well as the fact that Norrington is a highly moral man, not to mention he seems like the type who would punish himself for shortcomings. Sigh. I suppose in the end I can accept what they did to him, but I don't have to like it. It's sorta nice to see him without the wig?

Commodore James Norrington, we knew you well. We wish you wouldn't have abandoned your morals just because one pirate #%@#&! you over. Still, you have another movie to redeem yourself. Rephrase: the writers have another movie to redeem themselves before I murder them in their sleep.

I hate Elizabeth.

I could blame Norrington's plight on Elizabeth... ^^

But I won't.

Uhh... yeah. Tia Dalma was fun. Bad teeth. And yay for Barbosser. The scene at the end ... was... not worth waiting through all the credits to see. XD Funny, but not worth it.

That's all, I guess. BRING BACK JACK. D:

Is it next summer yet?