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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 2953549" data-attributes="member: 553">Finally got around to seeing PotC this weekend (though, judging by the box office, so did a couple of other people.) My wife's overall summation: "There was too much slime." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />It was good, a bit over-long, great effects. I was really impressed with the scene of Will trying to get the key from the sleeping Davy Jones, having a hard time trying to figure out how much of the tentacles were real and how much CGI.I don't think it was that great, though, and thought the first one was better from a character & humor point of view. Cap'n Jack had a few too many "I know that you know that I know..." style ramblings that just weren't as clever as alot of his lines in the original. And a menacing villian with a sense of humor were a good part of the first movie, as well. ("the Code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules....") Some of the scenes during the island battle had me cracking up, though, especially when there would be a pause or double take as some other combatants ran or rolled through.I do have to agree with the poster about Incomprehensible Voodoo Lady. I got the gist of alot of it, but she could have toned down the accent just a wee bit. Besides 28 Days Later, the actress was also in the Pierce Bronson movie After The Sunset, where her Island inflections were much more understandable.A lot of critics complained about Bloom and Knightley's characters not really given much to do in this one, but I thought they had plenty of effect on the plot, even it if was mostly in reaction to Jack's schemes and betrayals.Someone mentioned the Indiana Jone's reference when Mz. Swann reached for her missing sword (which also happened to Pintel and Ragetti when they confronted her earlier, didn't it?) But did anyone notice how many Indiana Jone's references there seemed to be? Or just simply images which called to mind things from those films?-Running from the cannibals (could almost hear "Launch the ship, Cotton! Launch the ship!")-Groping for missing weapon and grinning sheepishly-Will riding hidden on the bow of the Flying Dutchman (like Indy on the Nazi sub)-Rolling cages reminiscent of the Indy boulder sequence-Disembodied beating heart image from Temple of Doom-Jack's concern over his hat (though it was a nice play on the theme that Cotton was going to turn the boat around for the hat but Jack was too scared)There were a couple of others my wife pointed out, who is really the big Indy Jones fan. Anyone else think of any?Of course, there were other movie references - Will slowing his fall with a knife in the sail (like about every Errol Flynn pirate movie), and even Disney's own 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with the Kraken attacking the ship. And didn't Davy Jones even say something like "Release the Kraken!", similar to a line from Clash of the Titans? Oh, and of course, hermit-crab head evoked images of John Carpenter's The Thing.</blockquote>

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