/> Starring: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom
Directed by Gore Verbinski
Rating: !!!!

You can't beat this one for nonsensical exuberance. Ever since Harry Potter pranced into our juvenile fantasies films chronicling the adventures of the brash and the bold have filled our senses. Pirates Of The Caribbean worked because of its principal actor's wacky panache. If anything, Johnny Depp is even wackier and more camp-like in the sequel

Depp sweeps across the film's hefty horizon in swash-buckling movements creating a bizarre bazaar of flying objects that happen to be humanbeings rolling down steep mountains and yawning valleys.

This is a film that requires the audience to drown in the fantasy. You cannot question its authenticity. And each time the sensible Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) turns around with a bewildered expression to wonder what on earth is going on, the plot shuts him out with one more hijinks.

It all adds up to a carnival of excessive extravaganza. Director Gore Verbinksi doesn't try to control the volume of vibrancy. He knows the narration is a cut above the wrist. Anything even marginally below will suck the blood out of the flamboyant tale.

This febrile frisky feisty and sometimes tasty but always hasty flick takes potshots at the adventure and yet remains true to it.

Deep is deliberately effeminate in his opulent overtures. Maybe he just wanted to let his hair down without exposing the baldness of the bawdy saga. He's fitted into a corset that's tailored for machismo. The other principal actors Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley are subtle and sexy, respectively.

Much of the spirited journey into the dark side of fable-land is punctuated by cartoonish violence. It could be off-putting if your didn't know that the pirate isn't serious. If he was, he'd be wearing an eye-patch, not pulling the wool over audiences' eyes.