Pirates Of the Caribbean 2, Boo-Hoo!

From the moment I heard the Tag line - 'Captain Jack Is Back' and saw the teaser trailer online months ago, I was hooked...dying in anticipation for the movie to hit the cinemas... like most of the world and Da Vinci Code...

The reason being the first one - The Curse of the Black Pearl was just magnificent... it brought the Pirates and wooden galleons back into Hollywood with a style of its own.
Johnny Depp was perfect! as the Keith Richards/Hippie/Swashbuckling Captain Jack Sparrow , Orlando Bloom should have been killed in Troy instead of going to the Caribbean and Keira Knightley actually managed to show some cleavage!
All in all , the first one had it all , a fun story line, pirates , a treasure hunt, sea battles , duels, ghosts, a fantastic score, epic production and great comedy moments ... everything you need for the perfect Summer Popcorn Entertainer....
Merchandise was sold , Kids finally forgot about their light sabres, donned eye patches , hoisted up their Jolly Rogers , duelled each other with wooden sticks , dug up their gardens to find lost treasure and the world was a happier place....

Then...
As always they decide to make a SEQUEL...
And as always it had to be of the bigger scale than the first, which is fine and all ...but then it comes down to s...t..r..e..c..h..i..n...g the storyline and that is where MOST sequels fail to deliver... It has been proved before i.e The Matrix, Transporter 2 , XXX2, Back to the Future2...the list goes on...

And So Unfortunately Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest falls in that category...
The first movie had so much fun introducing each character , that this time they had to just drag along the character's traits longer and harder to a point where it becomes a situation like a person telling you the same joke over and over again...
As for the script .... it seemed as if they just gathered together all the infamous sea-faring stories they could find and mixed it all together... some of the ones being - Treasure Island , The Flying Dutchman and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.. and wrote the characters into it...
Make no mistake though... the production is as epic as ever ! , the visual effects ... brillant, the locations the sets ... magnificent...!
Its just the story which doesnt quite fit the bill and feels quite 'Forced' ...as it probably was...

So although, I will Still Go out and see Part 3 when it comes out next year just to see how it all ends...
I was really really really disappointed that this one turned out to be such a wet blanket than it actually promised to be...