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There are good movies, great movies, and movies that are just plain dumb. Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3 are unjustly placed in the wavering subcategory of ‘only O.K.’ and ‘boring’.

You guessed it. I’m raging my own personal war against the critics of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. I don’t comment on harsh articles about the trilogy, but you can be sure that I am silently sending thought-daggers to all those reviewers.

Now I am not some long devoted life or death kind of fan. I was dragged to the Pirates of the Caribbean 2, in fact, even though I didn’t see the first one.

Now here’s how I see it: it’s all what you compare the movies against. Pirates of the Caribbean 1 was incredible, a work of art. It easily created its own category of “Fantastic! Movies” (and trust me, a category with its own exclamation mark is pretty special). Then audiences rushed to Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and felt disappointed. Why? Because it wasn’t good as that ‘Fantastic!’ movie that they had walked into the theater remembering.

I walked out of that theater annoyed at the producers for a different reason- I’d have to wait a whole six months for the next movie.

The difference in reactions is simple; I had seen a lot of movies- all of which were worse than Pirates of the Caribbean 2. Compare it to the first one and it’s not so special, compare it to most of the movies out these days and you have a great second installment to the series.

I’d like to question all those critics out there who said that the second one was too confusing- after all, I watched the movie with no idea who these characters were and what was going on and I caught on pretty quickly. (All movies are pretty easy to figure out- just look for the bald bad guy and you’re good!)

The third one was under fire yet again because it was too complicated. What’s so complicated about a bunch of pirates going to save Jack Sparrow and then going to war? Sounds pretty easy to understand to me.

Yes, there was flaws in these movies. But it seems like Pirates of the Caribbean-bashing was about to come an official sport.

I bet half of those people calling Pirates of the Caribbean a failed series are as excited for the fourth as I am.

My advice to those critical critics? Appreciate a good movie when you see it. I know you’re getting paid (most of you) but would it hurt to be even a little positive?

-Rika