Silver Surfer Vs Pirates Of The Caribbean

In the battle of pirates against ninjas, it’s inevitable that the pirates win…if Jack Sparrow were anywhere near the battle. Silver Surfer? Not a chance. Now, I would say that the animation of the Surfer was rather nice. That’s probably the best part of the show. Apart from it not being true to the source material (which is acceptable to an extent in movies), the story was not terribly dramatic in a superhero battle sort of way. Typically, superhero flicks have a unique selling point: The climatic battle at the end. The final scene just lacked the sort of dramatic tension that should involve global devastation or the death of our superheroes…preferably both. It seemed lacking in that aspect.

And usually, that battle has to at least be partly fought by the superheroes. It’s all a part of what it means to be superheroic.

Besides, the title is “Rise” of the Silver Surfer. Watch the movie and tell me where the “rise” comes in. I mean, we don’t see the origins of the Surfer and how he became the herald of Galactus, after all. We didn’t even get to see how Galactus was personally putting the world in peril. The ending just didn’t feel triumphant enough either.

Of course, since there was such a glaring blooper, I just had to talk about it: Why was the tail rotor of Doom’s chopper not spinning? Anyway, C+ for this flick. If I don’t remember most of it, it wasn’t terribly good.

Now on to Pirates 3. What can I say? It was a barrel of laughs, though a tad less cheesy than Pirates 2. It gets an A- from me. Why? Because it is dramatic in the right places, lessens the tension a little with some mistimed humor, and it has Depp on the cast. The – came from Orlando Bloom. Blame him. Oh, and they killed a big character I liked. Guess whom…hint: Many tentacles, and isn’t Davey Jones.

There’s just a charm to watching the Flying Dutchman in action, Jack Sparrow wisecracking while fighting and having a wedding aboard a pirate ship. It’s just so much more appealing when it all happens at once.

Nothing much I can say about the movie that isn’t known, and isn’t a major spoiler. All I can say is that I laughed. A lot. And that’s a very good thing. Pirates win =p