Add me to the list of those wanting their 2 1/2 hours back.
I didn’t love the first one, but thought it was enjoyable enough to watch the sequel. Halfway through I was wanting to gouge my eyes out in order to end the pain.
Yes, yes, it was a terrible movie.
But the whole long mess was worth it for the climax, in which
the gay man gets devoured by a giant toothed vagina
in a moment that just made me wish that I had Freud sitting next to me in the theater, because he would have laughed like hell.
Say, have you seen *King Kong * yet?
Anyway, I wasn’t expecting much, and that’s what I got. Sometimes lowered expectations lead to greater enjoyment, but it didn’t work this time. I think **LHoD ** had the right approach - I can see this being silly fun when watched with a group, especially with alcohol. I also agree with the review quoted above, that it would have been better if the leads had offered more eye-candy than their cheekbones. 
That said, Bill Nighy was great. My husband, who had no idea he was in the movie, IDed him within a minute or two. And I didn’t realize until now that the character was totally CG - wow! And, I’m enough of a sucker to go see PotC 3, though I might seek out a pizza-and-beer venue!
I’m confused. Why do they use an actor if the end product is not in any way a person? Bill Nighy’s image is not there at all?
Because every other aspect of a great character actor is there - his voice, humour, mannerisms, posture, even facial expression are all still intact. It’s no different to using makeup or a costume, it’s just more elaborately created.
umm…am I the only idiot who found the movie just plain disgusting ?
Yeah, I know, I’m an old fogey, plus I didn’t know what I was getting into. But they told me to take my 8 year old nephew to a movie, so I picked something blindly from the newpaper that said “Walt Disney” in the ad…and…, boy, did I get a wake-up call!
The kid loved it…but wouldn’t he have enjoyed a good story just as much if there were fewer worms crawling out of peoples eyes.??
They were not intact. They were invisible, missing, or wasted. At least for some, perhaps many, of us.
PotC: The Second Coming.
Really? I find that surprising, because to me they were all there very clearly. I recognised Davy Jones as Bill Nighy instantly and throughout.
Me, too. I wasn’t very familiar with Nighy beforehand and I didn’t know he was going to be in POTC2, but when he first appeared I recognized him instantly as “that guy from the Underworld movies.” The Davy Jones character–including Nighy’s performance as well as the special effects–is what really made the movie for me.
One thing that definitely annoyed me about the sequel: here it’s two movies into the franchise, and yet Kiera Knightley still remains stubbornly unravished. What’s up with that? She gets herself into all these situations ideally conducive to ravishment-- getting kidnapped by pirates, being laced into corsets, frequently soaking wet-- and that can’t just be coincidence. She’s clearly on board with the whole ravishing thing; she’s done practically everything possible to spell it out except for wearing one of those fuzzy Renfaire foxtails around. Most swashbuckling maidens have to settle for being part of a romantic triangle, whereas she’s got at least a romantic square, what with Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, the scruffy Commodore guy… the undead pirate captain in the first movie outright threatened to strip her naked… and the sequel had not one but two tentacle monsters, pirate-size and extra-large! It beggars belief that she wouldn’t have been ravished at least five or eight times by now with all the opportunities she’s had. For pete’s sake, the animatronic ride at Disneyland had more explicit ravishing action going on than either of these two movies! Frankly at this point I’m starting to wonder if she’ll even manage to get ravished at all.
I personally enjoyed the hell out of it. I got wind of the ending when the movie first came out, and that actually prepared me for it; had I not known, I think I would have been disappointed.
I actually do like the first movie better, primarily because despite Bill Nighy’s excellent performance, Geoffrey Rush can’t be topped. Barbossa was a cooler villain than Jones in all respects. Also, the second movie did pull a lot of jokes from the first, and even went so far as to break my suspension of disbelief a couple of times (particularly regarding the dog; that just got silly).
Still, it was highly entertaining. The visuals were absolutely wonderful and the choreography in some scenes was very well done. The story might have been a little disjointed, but that’s not my first priority with this kind of movie. I bought the DVD sight unseen, and I feel it was worthwhile.