How is the first one not a cookie-cutter summer flick? It really didn't have much of a plot and the script definitely didn't really get you to try to really care about the characters... thank christ, and rightfully so, because it's a fucking pirate movie with sea monsters. That's it. Sea monsters, shit getting killed and exploded, special effects, huge scale battles and Bill Nighy playing one of the coolest villains ever. And sea monsters. Seriously I have longed for movies with giant ass sea monsters and Pirates 2 delivers.
When the Kraken pulled the ship underwater breaking it in half, I didn't need critics telling me that it was a bad movie. Fuck that shit.