![]() They'd have done well to provide a "previously on Pirates of the Caribbean" prologue. ![]() Added to which, virtually everyone from the first movie reappears at some stage, which can get mighty confusing after a few years away. ![]() It would take the rest of this page to explain the convolutions the story goes through in order to split up all the characters then bring them together again: there's a key to acquire, a chest to find, a magic compass, a voodoo fortune teller, some signed letters, a mythical sea beast, and more. The good news is that this follow-up does recapture some of the high-seas high spirits of the first movie, but it requires an awful lot of momentum-gathering to get there. ![]() Somehow it struck that balance between knowing send-up and rousing spectacle, and half the delight was seeing an expensive studio product transcend its unpromising theme-park origins before our eyes, with a wink, a nudge and a hearty "ha-haaar!" Second time round, it was never going to be plain sailing. ![]() I f any recent blockbuster left movie-goers wanting more, it was the first instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean, even though it pulled off the sort of trick you can only really get away with once. ![]()
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