Hmm, i have to say i disagree with almsot everyone's opinion in this post. bring on the flames! just kidding, i have good reasons, to be embellished henseforth:
Well, my main problem with people saying a) the comedy is stale (especially the rum) c) there was no plot advancement and b) too much kraken. so, without further ado:
a) in the movie i saw two sorts of jokes i think msot people have a problem with: the laughing a jack for being drunk and a tad feminine on occation, and the rum. second thing first, i think you guys fail to realize how important rum actually was in the time this was supposed to have taken place, especially on ships. good water was hard to get and it never kept well, and so people always used to drink rum, because it wouldn;t go bad as easily and in general tasted better. also, getting drunk on rum was one of the few sources of entertainment out of port. of cource they're going to reference the rum a lot! it wasn;t like it was the same joke, it was jsut several references to rum in different cases. the only rehash was when jack said 'Hide the rum', and i personally found that rahter entertaining, especially since it was the first rum joke in the movie. Secondly, as for laughing at jack, that's his character, a slightly effeminant and frequently drunk pirate. he's always going to act like that, so if you ahve a problem with that then its a problem with the character, not the writers. this also goes for the two pirates (the fat guy adn the guy with the wooden eye), they always act like that, and frankly i found them quite witty. they're like the jester in a shakespear play.
secondly, B) very simple responce to this, imo. not sure how you can possibly think there wasn't any. at the end of Pirates I they had the black pearl, the other two were getting married, and norrington was out. at the beginning of 2, they've still got the pearl, jack's doing well, but will and kiera are in jail. now, at the end of 2, jack's dead, the pearl has returned to the depths, the east india trading company now has control of davy jones and thereby the ocean, norrington is back as a commodore, the govenor general is basically under the command of the EICo, and Barberosa (sorry about the spelling) is back alive. pretty damn lot of change, in my opinion.
Lastly, C) the kraken. what's the big problem? there were only 3 scenes (the last one isn;t more, its just one long scene and a pretty sweet battle, imo). the first one show us "hey, davy jones has a huge beasty he doesn't mind using", we don;t even se it, and it takes like, 5 seconds. The second scene you get to see the kraken, and it also shows how will finds out how to fight it. and of course the last scene is the big one of the crew vs it. why is three scenes in a 2 1/2 movie bad? and the first one hardly counts by any measure. hell, you can;t even tell it is a kraken then.
anyway, i loved it. not quite as good as the first, mayhaps, but still a great movie. but whatever, to each thier own.
[Edit] added spoiler tags. sorry about that
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