9 out of 10 monkeys believe they are not behind glass

Gore Verbinski surprised me when the first Pirates was released three years ago. (Wow, three years already?) Heck, the entire Disney team suprised the world with the movie. Can you imagine how huge of a flop it could have been? Especially when you are talking about a movie built around the revamping of a RIDE? How silly it could have turned out? But it turned out to be a pretty decent movie.

So now… the sophomore curse is looming. The sequel is coming Friday (as everyone knows), and my wife is pretty excited. She is a closet movie fan with very limited tastes, so when she gets excited, it is a rare event indeed.

The concept and plot look clean enough. Davy Jones, the baddest of the bad, is set as the main villian and I think that alone will give the movie plenty to dwell on. I hope that it doesn’t sink in its own references to the previous movie and just focuses on the characters. If it turns into a farce of character exploitation and just ends up reveling in the exaggeration of traits, I will be disappointed. Everyone knows Cap. Jack Sparrow and we don’t need to see him just be a parody of himself from the last movie, ya know?

Gore Verbinski suprised us all once… hopefully he can pull it off again. After MI3, X3 and Superman Returns, I need a mind blowing movie this summer. The summer season just hasn’t been delivered yet. Has it?