I've seen it 3 times now. (Not because I'm a fanatic - it just ended up that way).
He's wonderful (of course).
Here I go again with the confessions - I find bootstrap to be very attractive. It's the tenderness and sorrow in the character, perhaps. Makes you just want to hug him. Cuddly pirate!
I enjoyed the second one too. There's so much slap-stick, it makes you laugh through out. I'm still partial to the first one, though. Although Depp (and everyone else) does a good job with the comedy in the second part, I prefer the more subtle nature of the first pirates movie: and I like the way Sparrow's character was developed in the first one. Hiw conflicts and circumstances were more human and controversial. That's still found in the second film, but not as it is in the first.
In any case - I want to be a pirate now.
Have you not seen it yet, John? Must go see Dead Man's Booty.