Pirates 3

Jackie Mason | May 27, 2007
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Tony Peters | May 28, 2007
My thoughts are that they left the door open for a forth that will tie up the loose ends. Keith was awesome, Ms Knightly was sooo sexy in Singapore, afterwards though that tapered off a bit still I enjoyed it and I never felt it was too long which considering it was 3 hours is pretty good. Lots better than Spiderman 3 that's for sure and the trailer for Transformers ROCKED

Tony Peters | May 28, 2007
Yarrrhhhhgggg! SPOILERS AHEAD, MATEYS 2

Kris Weberg | May 30, 2007
I made the mistake of seeing it without having seen 1 and 2. Johnny Depp was enjoyable as ever, the battle scenes were neatly done, and there were some nice dollops of humor...but for something that's supposed to be entertaining hokum it sure spends too much time asking everyone to take its internal mythology and the rather underdone love story Very Very Seriously.

Jackie Mason | May 31, 2007
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Kerry Odell | June 4, 2007
Well, I saw the first (was pleasantly surprised as I expected it to be a bomb), didn't see the second and went and saw the third this weekend since Shrek 3 was sold out. I have to say that I'm glad I wasn't the only one lost! LOL

I thought it was too long...didn't get the whole Johnny/Jack nose thing and where was the booty? There's no treasure and I was truly hoping that Jack didn't give away his true piece of eight (SP). Alas that wasn't the case.

There were some great funny moments and Johnny was in great form as Jack, but I have to say that KK can't act. I guess they paid her to pout and scream.

Here's hoping shrek 3 is better!

k.

Kerry Odell | June 4, 2007
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Scott Hardie | June 4, 2007
Just saw it yesterday. Not bad, but it continues the downward slide started in the second film. These two sequels have forgotten why we liked the first one.

I was struck most by the scene of Jack Sparrow and Gibbs flirting around with the two floozies and plotting their next score, and the subsequent business with Barbossa's map with the hole in it. THAT was fun, just silly piratey goodness, and that's what the first movie was like. The second film and especially the third film got bogged down by so much exposition and supernatural affairs and politics that they forgot to be fun. Even just a few more one-liners would have gone a long way.

Did you all stick around after the credits? That epilogue resolves Will & Elizabeth's love story so that they're not (as) screwed, and makes their involvement in a fourth film very unlikely. (If you haven't seen it: Elizabeth and their nine-year-old son wait on the beach for the green flash at sunset, and Will appears on a ship out at sea, eager to see them. The mythology establishes that her waiting for him cancels the curse, so he's now returned for good after a single ten-year sojourn.)

I didn't like the idea of Barbossa coming back into the series, just because I think it has enough on its plate and he doesn't add much. But throughout the third film, I couldn't help but notice how Barbossa seemed to be the one competent pirate captain around, always offering the sensible advice, not that anyone listened.

Normally I don't mind movies with complicated plots – the first one was kind of refreshing that way – but halfway through this one, my interest in keeping track of the constantly shifting allegiances just gave out. I stopped keeping track of who was on whose side because I knew it was going to change in five minutes. Somebody could easily parodize this movie with a skit where the characters rapidly expound expository dialogue that explains how someone is really working for someone else, over and over again.

I still love the music. This series has great high-adventure themes.

Will there be a fourth film? That's the safe bet after all the money these have made, especially with Johnny Depp saying he'd make another, but even Bruckheimer himself has said the filmmakers are exhausted of the Pirates series after five years of non-stop work and he doesn't know if they can make another. If they do, it would be better to scale back on the supernatural, leave out Will & Elizabeth, and keep it silly.