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Ok, I've just seen the movie, and I'd like to make a few comments:
1 - I loved it. Loved, loved, loved it. I though I wouldn't, but I did.
2 - It's amazing how Bill Nighy still looks like Bill Nighy, even with all the prostetics and CGI on his face. Something about the voice and the body language.
3 - Davy Jones, and his crew: oh, my god, I wish I could slo-mo the film so I could catch every detail in their deep one's bodies. Awesome! I wish to see them fighting the undead pirates of the first PotC
4 - I'm a little fed up with this trilogy fad, where the second movie is always only the first half of a bigger movie. This is not really a trilogy, is it? It's a duology with a part 2 twice as big as part 1. Maybe it would have been best if the Flying Dutchman guys were defeated in this movie, leaving only the set-up (the rescue of Cappy Jacky) for part 3 at the end. BUT, I love Davy Jones crew design so much, I decided to forgive them that just for the extra two hour of that freaky mutated piracy.
5 - I loved to see the undead monkey back. To make it like a pet plague in the Black Pearl was really fun. It probably have been annoying the crew for so long that they've got used to him. "It's no use shooting him, capitan" "It made me feel better". Great fun
6 - At the very end, when Tia Murta said they needed a captian who knew the seas on the far side of earth and everybody looked up, I though they would introduce keith Richards/Jack's dad character, and I though "Man, that's going to be so lame!" (sorry for using the term "lame", but alas, that was what I thought at the time). But then, there's Barbosa. Not only that, it was Barbosa eating an apple with his pet monkey (which I hope is still undead) on the shoulder. I was "Wow, this is so freaking cool! Go B-man!"
7 - I love the fact the whole movie is populated with anti-heroes. Even the good guys (Will and Kathy) are out for their own sake most of the time. The two ex-undead pirates who were vilains/comic relief in the first movie come back as anti-heores/comic relief (very funny ones, no less), but still are vilains. The movie doesn't make any apologies: "yes, our stars are pirates, and they will do piraty things, even if it means raping, theft, backstabbing, and all that". Very edgy for a Disney movie, me thinks. And in the end they bring back an old vilain as the new anti-hero. Go, B-man!
8 - the lack of Ana maria character from the first movie was a bad, bad mistake. She was the most interesting member of the Black Pearl crew in the first movie (which was already very interesting, in a glorified extra kinda of way). She gave them personality, ans she would made an awesome first-mate for Jack. I hope they bring her back for part 3, maybe as capitain of her own ship, but I doubt, since there's already Tia Murta there, and if I have any clue as to how holywood producers think, two strong black female characters in a single movie would be just too much for their little minds.
9 - I loved the reapeated attacks of the Kraken. i'm tired of monters that pop up once, are killed, and that's it (or pop up twice, the first to show how mean they are, the second to be ass-kicked), In this movie, the monster is indeed an unstoppable killing machine, and it shows. In fact, I hope it comes back and survives through part 3...
10 - the movie makes wish I had kids, just so I can take them to a ride in the PotC ride. I remember it from when I was child myself, and it was the coolest one in all Disney World,
11 - I think now is safe to say that Pirates kick Ninja ass. But we may find out for sure in part 3. Here's hoping
12 - Fuck physics. I loved the three way sword fight, and not just the mill part. The "former comodore" character was great, and a great development for a secundary character in movie one.
13 - "The rum too?" oh no! |
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