I love silly, popcorn fueled summer movies. Almost every year I go with the slimmest, glimmer of hope that something will rise from that incredibly shallow pool. And I hoped it would have been Superman that rose like a ray of light that breaks an Autumn morn. But alas Iit wasn’t. In fact the best thing about Superman is the trailer for Spiderman 3. Man that trailer kicked ass.

But I can finally say that my quest can lie dormant another season. Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest, saved my summer.

It was thrilling, exciting, funny, bucks swashed, “Ah hahs!” were heartily shouted and pretty lasses were tossed around. And man, the visual effects were unfreaking-believable. It was supervised by John Knoll, an ILM old timer (and brother to Thomas Knoll, Photoshop creator).

Go see it now and try to forget that the following just happened: X-Men III, Superman, Mission Impossible III, Click, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Da Vinci Code etc…