For those that think the sequal was better, you don't know what quality in moives is.
Harry Potter has some of the worst movies I have ever seen. The popcorn I was eating had more depth and stuck to the story more then those movies.
However, Pirates 2 is a fantastic movie, just not as great as the original
2 could be looked as a prolouge(SP) to the 3rd. All of it at the end was a Prison Break or 24 finnale to me.
Pirates introduced the characters in such a way that it put a lot of depth into the most simplests aspects of the movie.