Fantastic movie, the sequels suck.
The main problem IMO is that they transitioned from cartoon like violence (the kind of violence like the A-team series, there's an explosion, and the bad guys jump doing a flip, they are probably dead, but you can still watch it with the kids) to realistic; and you can see it right at the beginning of the second one.
The humor is something definitively missing from the sequels, the quips, etc. It was really fun to see people telling legends about Jack Sparrow and his legendary ship, and then it turns that he is just a drunk pirate with a terrible tripulation, and all the legends about him are made up.
Sadly, the movies took themselves to seriously, when what made the first one great, was that it was a fun ride, in the same way the National Treasure films are made, or the recent Jumanji films (which are great).
