Papa was a Rolling Stone

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2007)

This franchise is the Indiana Jones trilogy of the 20'oughts. It takes the Pirates series to surprising new levels of the fantastic, supernatural, and weird. The setting, of course, is anywhere but the Caribbean. From the start, the theme is, well, death. There's more darkness and heartbreak in this episode, and British naval villainy was overboard this time. Barbossa is the action hero. It bears careful listening and watching, especially when trying to decode pirate jargon at a pace this fast. Several of the pirate ploys and tricks must have blown by me in my first two viewings, but I suspect the deal on the sandbar had more to it than it seemed.