i watched PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN II: THE DEAD MAN'S CHEST (: its super nice, but then any movie with orlando bloom is nice :D watched with my family and pirates of the caribbean II is much funnier then I. the whole cinema laughed like mad (: but it is also scarier (you can say) than the first in the trilogy, and it ends with a maddening cliffhanger. argh. anyway SPOILERS AHEAD. those who havent seen the show and dont want the surprise spoiled for you, please do not scroll down.
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ok i gues this is long enough :D ok the movie starts of with Elizabeth sitting in the rain, and it turns out that the rain has ruined her and will's wedding. Will is brought in chains and Elizabeth is too arrested for their "charges" of helping the notorious pirate Jack Sparrow escape. yup. oh yeah, Commadore Norrington is gone and he is replaced by this evil guy. didn't bother to remember his name :p
Will is set free to retrieve the compass that Jack always carries around with him. The one that doesn't work in exchange for his and Elizabeth's freedom, as the penalty of those charges is death. He sets off to find Jack and the compass and he's given many misleading leads. one of the funniest was SINGAPORE!! :O one of the men actually said that jack sparrow was in SINGAPORE! lol. that was funny :D
Will found the black pearl marooned at the island and went to find the crew, but he got caught by these Native dwellers there who are actually cannibals and they believe that Jack is the God trapped in a mortal's body and they are going to roast him and eat him to free the God. The escape scene is terribly funny, the funniest in the movie i think :D you have to watch it :D
anyway Elizabeth herself escapes and she threatens the new commodore at gunpoint to sign an agreement stating that Jack will be the commodore and blah blah if he comes back. so she stows away in a ship and she leaves her dress there, so the crew believe that there is a female ghost on the ship. she plays on their fear as she puppets the dress around and convinces them to go to tortuga where Jack is.
meanwhile, Will was tricked onto the Flying Dutchman by Jack to find a key to Davy Jone's chest. Inside the chest is Davy Jone's heart and DJ is the tentacles guy. eeek. so Will got caught and it turns out that Jack sent him to settle his debt with DJ, meaning that he wants Will to die for him so that he can save his sorry hide. GRRR. evil. Jack negotiates with DJ and he has to find 99 souls in 3 days for his debt to be fully paid off. poor Will is still kept on the Flying Dutchman, but he finds his father! Bootstrap Bill. His father was forced to whip him by Davy Jones and Will harbours great resentment to him. But Will challenges the captain to a game of "bluff" and the stakes are an eternity of servitude to the captain to the key that Jack wants. Will's father steps in unexpectedly to play and sacrifices himself for Will. so Bill is condemned to an eternity of servitude on the flying dutchman.
Will gets the key secretly and with a promise that he'll return to save his father, he leaves and gets picked up by the ship Elizabeth was on. Now, at Tortugal Jack is recruiting crew to pay of his debt and commodore Norrington, now reduced to a man no better than a pirate turns up. He is recruited, but causes a brawl at the pub. Elizabeth makes herself known to Jack and the compass that doesn't work works in her hand. The compass only points to what your heart desires and it points to the location of Davy Jone's chest as it is what she needs to save Will.
So they set off to the chest. Meanwhile the ship Will was picked up onto got swallowed by the Kraken. a terrifying creature of the sea but will manages to escape and turns up on the island where Davy Jone's treasure is. Jack, norrington and elizabeth who are already there, were shocked and glad to see him with the key. but before will turned up, they were trying to locate Davy Jone's chest and the compass points to Jack instead. :O there has been some flirting on the ship between this two people. (EVIL!!) but they still found the chest and the heart beating inside. gross. the three men started fighting over the key to the chest, each wanting it for their own reason and Elizabeth tries in many unsuccessful and funny ways to stop them. the fighting scene is again funny :D
the two pirates from the first movie, you know the ones that dress up as females to attract the navy's attention? they escaped from jail and become crew on the Black Pearl and they decided that it is good for all of them if they take the chest XD so Elizabeth chased after them for the chest. But davy jones sent his erm deformed pirates after them because he can only step onto land once every 10 years. so they all start running away from the pirates and Jack gets away with the key and stuffs the heart into the jar of sand that the Tia Dalma gave him. (erm thats in the beginning of the movie but im not mentioning it)
Norrington finds the heart and keeps it while volunteering himself to distract the pirates. One may think that it's a noble sacrifice, but its because he wants to get away with the heart. grrr. so they return to the black pearl and Davy Jones commands the kraken to destroy the black pearl. They hold up against the Kraken unsuccessfully and Jack actually escapes. but he returns in the end. They decided to abandon ship and they move to the long boat to escape. Elizabeth kisses Jack passionately as she backs him into the bow of the ship. i did mention that a fair bit of flirting has been going on between them yea. Will pops up to grab some more stuff and he sees them. He is stunned and stares at his hands, wondering how this could be.
Elizabeth shackles Jack to the bow of the ship while kissing him, crying and telling him that she does not regret this. Jack smiles and affectionally calls her a pirate. she climbs onto the long boat and tells them that Jack has sacrificed himself for them and they escape. Will stares at her in disbelief as she cries and refuses to meet anyone's eyes. Jack manages to get himself free and he leaps into the kraken's mouth bravely with his sword as the ship goes down.
They go to Tia Dalma's house for refuge and she comforts everyone. She asks if they are willing to go to the ends of the earth to rescue the ship and their captain and everyone "ayes" determinedly, except for Will, who echoes it softly. she says that they need a brave captain who can bring them to the ends of the earth and a loud clump can be heard as footsteps descend the stairway. and who is it? Barbossa. the movie ends here.
such an annoying cliff hanger yea! grrrrrrrr. anyway my feelings: i think the Jack/Elizabeth kiss is horrible. because i think Will/Elizabeth is better. i mean Will is willing to sacrifice anything, even his life for Elizabeth. (in an earlier scene, Will tells Jack that he is willing to sacrifice anything for Elizabeth, even his life) and this is how she repays him. The kiss may be to distract Jack so that she can shackle him to the bow, but they both look flustered when they break away and it is a very passionate kiss. Not to mention the flirting in the movie. (norrington tells Elizabeth that he would do anything for her to look at him in the same way. It is after Elizabeth talks to Jack, so he is saying that he wishes she would look at him the way she does to Jack).
Jack says that Elizabeth will sooner or later succumb to his charms because of CURIOSITY. and i think he's right. Will is her stronghold, the stable one she can return to when she feels lost. but with Jack she has freedom. so only the last movie will tell us who she chooses. and i conclude that Elizabeth is a two-timing female. GRRR. she has
orlando bloom Will Turner head over heels in love with her, so why does she want anyone else?
anway i admit im biased because Will is orland bloom LOL. but thats how i feel. grrr its gonna be eternity waiting for the third movie to come out. anyway reply to tags:
hosimin: YUP (: anyway when i get yours, i'll write back to you asap too! :p
JM: LOL and we all know who it is :p
yi'an: WAH you damn evil leh. heh hosimin is so nice you want her get pumped for what? lol. and you very -.-. who else would notice the 14 except for you? :P
