"Pirates of the Caribbean - II"

Saw the movie. Had a great time. Didn't understand a frickin' thing.

According to G., the movie is composed of a number of interwoven Caribbean tales and legends of pirates, and has been carefully researched.

Well, maybe. If you take a bunch of unrelated Caribbean tales and try to weave a coherent plot, you might get something like mush:

Pintel: ...I always heard it said "kray-kin"
Ragetti: What? with a long A? Na-na-na-na-no-no no "Krah-ken"'s how it's pronounced in the original Scandinavian, and "Krakken"'s closer to that.
Pintel: Well we ain't original Scandinavians, are we?
Ragetti: It's a mythological creature, I can calls it what I wants!

And that's one of the better dialogues!

There's a lot of action and adventure. Way too much action. 'Pirates' resembles a forebear, "Raiders Of The Lost Ark," a movie with so much action, and so many improbable escapes, that it made me ill when I first saw it, in Las Vegas, in 1981.

In the Sacramento Bee's newspaper ad for the new 'Pirates' movie, they quote Larry King:

Finally, a movie you can see over and over again.

Well, you can do that with any movie. But if you want to understand what is happening with this movie, you might have little choice. It's been three years since the first movie, and I've forgotten who all the characters are. And so when the portentous music signals that someone has entered the screen that was in the other movie - in other words, a profound, significant moment with a supposedly familiar character - all I could do was shrug my shoulders in ignorance.

So, saw the movie. Had a great time. Didn't understand a frickin' thing.