Jul
10
We saw this movie on Sunday and had been eagerly anticipating it. Stacy & Tim came up for the guys to play golf & we had hoped to see it after their game on Saturday but it was too late. Stacy had told me that some of her blogging buddies had seen it and said don’t go see it! But we did anyway and I must say, I think we were disappointed in it too! It seems to be hard for them to make a sequel that lives up to the original. There were things that were more gross in it than the first one and the story wasn’t all that great. I don’t think Don liked it at all and we were both frustrated at the end because it was really nothing more than a setup for the next one to come. I told him I thought most all sequels had trouble living up to the first movie but he disagreed and said Lord of the Rings wasn’t like that. But I think one reason LOTR is different is that they filmed all 3 movies at the same time, and they had a good story to start with! The Pirates movies are based on a Disney ride after all; hard to get a good story out of that, much less 3 times. Oh well, I guess it’ll be the blockbuster they were wanting and hoping for this summer, but I wish it had been a more satisfying movie.
Update: I talked to both David and Elizbeth about it and they both liked it a lot, although David said he had heard people say the same thing that we did about it being a set up for the last one. It probably is a movie to see on the big screen and I guess I’m still glad that we went. It would have helped me to have seen the first one again though before we went!
July 10th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Thanks for the review b/c I was ready to go see it. Now I think I’ll wait and rent it instead.
Hope you had a good weekend!