Yet another cleaning movie. This one I did a little better with, I only sat down to watch the giant fight scene over the chest, you know the one with Sparrow, Turner, and Norrington fighting for the key on that giant mill wheel. Man, I love that choreography.The second movie finds Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley), her betrothed Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), and former suitor James Norrington (Jack Davenport) wanted by the law (or at least the East India Trading Company) for their parts in the first movie. The oily villain, Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) is willing to negotiate their lives for Jack Sparrow's compass, the one that points toward the heart's greatest desire. The only thing is, Jack (Johnny Depp) had a previous debt with Davy Jones (a squid-faced Bill Nighy) which has come due. The only way to get out of crewing 100 years on The Flying Dutchman is to find the chest where Jones keeps his heart and stab it.
I do love that Disney managed to get a bunch of people back for the second movie in the series, including some that you may not expect, like the two light-ladies from Tortuga (Scarlet and Giselle) that slap Jack and have apparently become BFF since then.
These two.Also, I was pleased to recognize Naomie Harris (28 Days Later, Ninja Assassin) as Tia Dalma, the voodoo lady. That probably took a shitload of time sitting in a makeup chair every day but God love you, good job. In the third movie, she starts to get a little wonky but that's a totally different review.
I know these movies are popular fluff and it's become a big deal to hate on them and call them sell-outs, but let's not fucking forget: they were based on a ride at Disney World! The fact that they were able to get any coherent scripts out of that is like a freakin' miracle.
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