Pirates of the caribbean (dead mans chest)

[Private Hudson]

Oh yeah, and it's full of those standard silly movie conventions you come to expect like 10 minuite sword fights between goodguys where no one ever hits eachother, on a rolling water wheel which just happens to end up exactly where they needed to be, and stuff like how amazingly in each battle where lots of people die all of the major characters/crew members survive when everyone else dies... (Oh, this isn't a major problem, most movies do it, I just always notice it...)

In this movie, those scenes were so blatantly tongue-in-cheek that it was funny. I applaude those scenes for being so self-aware, and just made the movie that much more enjoyable.

I don't remember much of the first movie, other than not enjoying it. So I like this one more pretty much by default, as I found it to be tremendous fun.