One-Sixteenth

At least "Back to the Future II" was funny. I barely laughed at all in "Pirates II". The "Hide the rum!" quote got my biggest laugh, I think.

When Geoffrey Rush came on screen at the end, I was thinking 'OK, now we can start the movie." They should have condensed this story into about 30 minutes then got going with Barbossa; that would have been much better.

Obviously, the director fell in love with special effects (did we really need all those long, lingering shots of Davy Jones [and he really hasn't aged well since The Monkees anyway]) which weren't all that special and forgot to tell a decent story.

It would have been nice if they had decided whether to make Davy Jones evil or not. But it was good that he didn't break into "Daydream Believer."

Then again, maybe that was bad, too.

I thought the same thing when they showed Geoffrey Rush.

I barely laughed either. The next night we watched Curse of the Black Pearl again ... and laughed just as much as we always do.

"Hide the rum" has made its way into our house, too. We were disappointed, though - they lost their groove, their quirk, as it were. But we were thrilled to see Barbossa come back. Even the boys said, "Well, three should be great because Barbossa will be in it."

Did the monkey go back and hoark a piece of the coin after it had been put back? Perhaps that way, he's the only one under the curse now? I don't know. But the groans when she let it out of the cage did get a good giggle from me. That's how I feel when the boys let the dog back in.

Dy

I just surfed on here while looking for something else, but this entry caught my eye because Barbossa really is the best thing about these movies (apologies to Depp).

The monkey was undead because after the credits are over in the first movie, you have an extra scene where he steals a piece of gold. The second movie had a scene at the end where the dog with the keys becomes the new God of the cannibal tribe.