niceguy2005
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ORIGINAL: Terminus It's going to be Pirates 2 for me tonight; I loved the first one, it's a real popcorn film. I think, IIRC, I gave the first one a C, mabye a C+. The character of Captain Jack Sparrow pretty much saved it from being a D-. Action sequences were, as is typical of big budget hollywood, overdone and over-rated. I will give them credit for doing something unusual in making the pirate so off beat. I probably will give the second one a try too, though I'm expecting more overdone action sequences and less plot so I'm not holding out a lot of hope. It's where you can see that it's based on an amusement park ride... It's over the top, blatantly escapist Hollywood entertainment, and yes, Captain Jack rescues it from instant condemnation to obscurity. I liked a comment on the DVD comment track: "He has a sort of Pepe le Pew thing going..." Blatantly over the top I enjoy, its the action simply for action sake that doesn't really do it for me. King Kong (the recent remake) was one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time and its a prime example of action for action sake. I actually walked out during the scene where he fights the dinosaurs, had time to use the restroom (wash my hands of course), walk down the hall, go down the escolator, stand in line for popcorn and a soda, walk leisurely back to my seat and still had several minutes to spare in the action sequence.
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