movie news : It’s movie time!

Summer appears quite a dead season for good movies. I mean “Poseidon,” “She’s the man,” “The Break-Up,” “Just My Luck” – all very fine but they can hardly make me rush to the cinema and give away my cash for a couple of hours of dubious pleasure. But I do love cinemas – big screens, the smell of popcorn and all that jazz, and for the last few weeks I just couldn’t wait for some movie to come out which would be worth seeing. Finally, this coming week three great flicks will hit Ukrainian cinemas – one in English, one in Portuguese and one in Ukrainian and Russian, but I’d say, speaking of the latter, the language will hardly matter there at all.

Pirates of the Carribean:

Dead Man’s Chest

“Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest” is surely the most awaited blockbuster this summer and the reason for it is quite simple – the success of its predecessor “Pirates of the Carribean: the Curse of the Black Pearl.” It’s easy to predict that the sequel will be just as much or even much more fun and judging by the latest reports of viewers and critics, it’s very likely.

The success of the first “Pirates” movie was mainly due to the performance of Johnny Depp – who knows what could become of a movie based on the Disneyland attraction if not for his character, Captain Jack Sparrow. The famous Hollywood “chameleon” approached his new image with quite some inspiration – having fancied that pirates where nothing but hippies and rock-n-rollers of the past, he based his performance on Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. In fact, Depp was eager to have Richards appear in the movie sequel as Jack Sparrow’s father. Unfortunately, we’re not going to see the veteran rocker in “Dead Man’s Chest” but it has been reported that Richards finally agreed to appear in the third installment of “Pirates,” and in autumn he will arrive on the set to play a cameo written specially for him.

In the meantime we’ll be treated to another portion of adventures from the dashing Captain Jack Sparrow, his pal Will Turner and the brave beauty Elizabeth Swann. Haunted by ghosts just as much as before, Sparrow finds out that he owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman played by Bill Nighy. The hippy pirate risks being doomed to eternal damnation and servitude in the afterlife, and naturally tries to escape this sort of fate in the company of his two friends, who are forced to put off their marriage in order to help Jack.

“Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest,” premiered in USA last week, grossing $132 million in the first three days and topping the previous record of “Spider-Man,” which grossed $115 million. Of course, those figures don’t guarantee that the movie is going to be great, but trust me, Johnny won’t let us down.

by Alexandra Matoshko, Kyiv Post Staff Writer