Kpirates of the Caribbean - II

There is no typo in the subject.

 

It never fails. Any sequel’s impressiveness is always inversely proportional to how expected it is! I wasn’t too excited about the “Two Towers” and it was quite impressive (best of the 3 IMO). “The Chamber of Secrets” fell flat on its face (though the book isn’t too great either) and it was much awaited!

 

I was terribly excited about “Dead Man’s Chest” (title inspired from song in R.L. Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”) having liked the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” a lot. For the second part there were rave reviews, there were interviews with the actors and the director and there were biographies and profiles, especially of Johnny Depp. I was looking forward to watching it since it started to be advertised.

 

For all that, it turned out to be an unfinished story, stretched out to its limits and without the element which attracted me to it in the first part. I should’ve known. All the reviews and the articles always talked about what a great comedian Deppwas and how funny the character of Captain Jack Sparrow was. Now I realise that I had liked it, not because of the comedy in Jack Sparrow’s character, but because of the audacity!

 

And that’s precisely what was missing in the same character in the sequel. Jack Sparrow was reduced to a slap-stick comedian and the over-confidence part needed a bit of searching before one found it.

 

That apart, the special effects were good of course, really good, but somewhere they went overboard with them. In the end there was a little too much of them: especially the multitude of times the sea-creature comes and devours ships and the length of time of the sword fight on the giant wheel; though I’ll surely look forward to seeing Davie Jones’ independently moving tentacles again in part 3.

 

I like it when the main villain character (in this movie nearly everyone is a villain after all J) has an emotional past and a soft side and I just loved it when Davie Jones played a multi-level harpsichord with his hands as well as facial tentacles, with a terribly pained expression on his octopus face! Brilliant J

 

One more thing I’ll look forward to is the Jamaican or generally West Indian accent of the oracle character. For a second I thought that Michael Holding or Ian Bishop came out of their commentary box into the big screen.

 

On the whole, though I enjoyed many parts of the movie, it was a little too long and in the end ... well it didn’t end! So we now have to wait for the 3^rd part to come out and meanwhile wonder what will happen to Davie Jones’ heart (somewhat likeVoldemort’s horcruxes!) and like www.dumbledoreisnotdead.com, we’ll come out with www.jacksparrowwillcomeback.com too!

 

Somewhere in the middle I thought that the movie was turning out to be a Bollywood type sentimental thing, but the last scene changed it all! When the credits came on I had only one term in mind “Soap Opera”!

 

So in Ekta Kapoor style, after:
-  Kasauti zindagi ki              - episode 3 x 10⁸
-  Kkusum                          - episode 65536
-  Kyonki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi  – episode 6.023 x 10²³

 

now it is:
- Kpirates of the Caribbean       - episode 2

 

Awaiting episode 3.