*nodding* It's not a *bad* movie (when you've sat through Black Mask II and Rendezvous [which I now use as a threat! "Do this or I'll make you watch Rendezvous..."] you develop a whole new definition of bad); but it's not the great movie they want you to believe it is. The production values were good - the sets/costumes/props were very nicely done, the special effects were exactly what you'd expect from ILM, the fight scenes were good (not great, but I've seen plenty worse)*, the humour in the script was mostly well done - it's such a shame that the story sucked the big one! I think they were going for 'heart warming' and ended up with 'trite'.
*The editing/camera angles made some of the fighting a bit difficult to work out who was doing what to who, when and how - but it wasn't as badly cut together as some of the PotC sword fighting (Johnny Depp starts a down cut with the sword, the editor makes a cut and the next shot is of Orlando Bloom making an up cut with NO PARRY in between. GAH!) and it was vastly more believable than *ANY* of the action in the aforementioned Black Mask II...
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Date: 2004-04-22 12:08 am (UTC)*The editing/camera angles made some of the fighting a bit difficult to work out who was doing what to who, when and how - but it wasn't as badly cut together as some of the PotC sword fighting (Johnny Depp starts a down cut with the sword, the editor makes a cut and the next shot is of Orlando Bloom making an up cut with NO PARRY in between. GAH!) and it was vastly more believable than *ANY* of the action in the aforementioned Black Mask II...