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I dunno, it was a great movie, but it wasn't what I was expecting.
I kinda thought the humor was a little too goofy, and also a little too forced.
I thought that too. I thought some of the humor was pretty cheap. I remember at least ten or fifteen jokes that were play-offs of the "Why is the rum gone" scene in the first movie. Three or four of them were genuinely funny, but not that many. I felt like they were trying to hard to make us laugh, and just kept resorting to that scene.
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The movie overall, in my personal opinion, was darker and drearier, and a little hard to follow at the beginning. I feel like it's trying to turn into a huge dramatic epic trilogy, like Lord of the Rings or Star Wars, and that's not what it's cut out for.
One of the qualms I had was that for the most part it was nonstop action. I loved the waterwheel scene with the three-man swordfight, but some of the other scenes got to be too much. Like the scene on the island with the tribal society at the beginning - what purpose did that serve in developing the plot? And while watching that chunk of the movie, was anybody besides me thinking, "wow, they're trying really hard to imitate King Kong! Too bad they forgot the gorilla!"
Overall - too much nonstop action, and too dark to follow the more light-hearted and genuinely fun path set by original. Not really what I was expecting. It wasn't terrible, so, I guess I'll chalk it up to the Sequel Curse.
Oh, and CHEERS to Geoffrey Rush making a comeback! I have faith in him. He will save At World's End for me. I know most people liked Davey Jones as a villain but I preferred Captain Barbossa. A shallow, treasure-hungry jerk with a brain and a goal, not a once-tragic-hero-turned-evil-talking-sushi. Rush's character was more fitting for a fun summer pirate movie.
I think that people worried about spoilers should not be reading three-page discussions of movies released days ago that they haven't seen yet, as there are bound to be spoilers in them. I mean, I don't read them. But there we are.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
"I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
--CS Lewis
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