Caught Pirates for that promised second time last night. Johan and I hit up the Union Square theatre, accompanied by a somewhat rowdier crowd than had shown up on Wednesday, but it wasn’t obnoxious-rowdy. Lots of enthusiastic ARRRRRR-ing, a few scattered AVASTs, but not the kind of constant chatter that makes me throw popcorn at people. There were even a few folks with fake swords and eyepatches - apparently a little late for opening night, but I’m sure their enthusiasm is to be applauded. As for the film itself, I was surprised to find that I enjoyed it much more the second time around. All the plot and pacing problems I mentioned before just sort of melted away - when you don’t have to keep track of who’s a zombie when and exactly which side that monkey is on, you’re free to bask in two and a half hours of Geoffrey and Johnny, and it’s massively entertaining. Usually I find that when I’m not sure about a movie, its flaws become much more obvious on a second or third viewing, but that wasn’t the case at all here, which was pleasantly unexpected. I don’t expect to see it again on the big screen, but it’s probably a DVD I’ll pick up when it comes out later on (or when they start selling it on the street outside my office, where you can already get Reloaded and T3).