I think the first one is pretty fun. Not as good as it should have been (tedious writing for the Knightley and Bloom characters with performances to match that further drag their scenes down like a ship`s anchor). It`s a little muddled the way the script keeps going back and forth to the same locations extending the running time needlessly, but on the whole I think the movie could have turned out a hell of a lot worse. Depp, Rush, some of the minor supporting cast and the effects work save it.

I felt the second however was an overdrawn mess and I hear the third is little better (though I like Zimmer's score to the third one which I got in the post yesterday. I'm not usually fond of his action scores but there's a fair bit of variety this time round. A pleasant surprise). I'll say one thing I did like about the 2nd one however, and that's the CG for Davy Jones and his crew. That was some of ILMs best ever work.