{"id":701,"date":"2006-07-13T20:10:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/there-be-pirates\/"},"modified":"2006-07-13T20:10:28","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T19:10:28","slug":"there-be-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/there-be-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"There be pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Went to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest<\/a><\/em> at the weekend. Pretty enjoyable, but a bit baffling in places if you’ve not seen the first film – or, as in my case, you’ve seen the first film but forgotten much of it in the three years since.<\/p>\n

The CGI was so good in most parts that I didn’t even think about it – there were just one or two Kraken shots which gave the game away. Johnny Depp steals the film, acting everyone else off the screen; poor Orlando Bloom is left looking, if not wet, then a little moist. Bill Nighy plays a very convincing Davy Jones, although I don’t understand why he was Scottish, and I’m sure he didn’t look like that when he was in The Monkees. Keira Knightley surprises by being quite good in a few scenes, but is pretty ropey at times. I can’t help remembering that awful Domino<\/em> movie – one of the worst performances I’ve ever seen in the cinema, and I only saw the trailer.<\/p>\n

At points, Dead Man’s Chest<\/em> was exciting and had great snippets of dialogue. But, at two-and-a-half hours, it’s too damn long and some sequences dragged. The scene Alex describes<\/a> as “exhilarating swashbuckling” I’m afraid I found overlong – you know no-one is going to win the swordfight, and, because the MacGuffin in being fought over is elsewhere, the action feels ilke a sideshow. Plus, the rolling water wheel was a retread of the rolling cage on the island early on – part of an entire section which could have been dropped to make the film a more manageable length without any impact on the plot.<\/p>\n

Finally, I felt cheated by the end: yes, I enjoyed most of the film, but I expected to be rewarded for sitting through it. Instead, it stuck up two fingers and put out its hand for the ticket price to the second sequel. The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> might have got away with it, but Dead Man’s Chest<\/em> doesn’t.<\/p>\n

For other views: Ryan<\/a>, Gordon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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