Hide the rum!

I just got back from Iowa where *drum roll* I saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2! Me and Maddie dressed up as pirate whores and were the first in line at midnight. Much to my dismay nobody else was dressed up! The theatre wasn't even full! You can understand why I'm a little surprised to see it has grossed 132 million dollars the first day. Ah, the wonder of sequels. Disney is ecstatic.

The whole beginning could have been cut. Elizabeth and Will have to postpone their wedding plans to save Jack on a dessert island. The whole thing has nothing to do with the rest of the plot, except we know that Elizabeth and Will need the find Jack's magic compass. It turns out that Jack has a debt to pay to Davy Jones, (Bill Nighy with a Medusa beard) and when trying to pay it doesn't work out, he just runs away with Davy's heart*. The most exciting development is an interesting new love triangle which will call Will/Elizabeth shippers to question where their loyalty lies! (Wink wink, nudge nudge)
All in all, it was a lot like the first one, similar plot, same characters, same jokes. Only it was two hours and forty minutes long, and that's more than enough to make your butt sore.


* In the most literal sense. Dead Man's Chest, get it?