It seems, then, 1SO, that your confusion is that I didn't seem to defend my placement of it. I just didn't express it comparatively, is all. The fact is, CWACOM is one of the most consistently fun movies I have seen. I literally laughed every minute of this film, sometimes an LOL, sometimes a quiet smirk, but it really was every moment.
I appreciate that which makes me laugh. I deal directly with addiction, mental illness, apathy and death every day. If a film can so wholeheartedly, so completely take me away from that, even ready to go back to it with a smile on my face, that film deserves high praise from me. Yep, it's escapism, but for me it is utterly successful. And I need that escape.
The only reason Pirates gets a higher score is because they have a couple characters that I think are pretty cool and some tension. Apart from that, my reasons for liking them both are pretty similar.