Squid Thing And The Attack Of The Mutant Molluscs

Rating: 4/10 (2 May 2008)

Really disappointing. The trilogy has been going downhill and this concluding part was by far the worst of the bunch. Although beautifully photographed at times with great locations and excellent special effects, the whole thing was so overblown and ridiculous with stupid sub-plots and over-developed and completely unnecessary character incentives to add to the mix. For me, the problem with all three films is instead of a basic human melodrama, with believable protagonists, antagonists and no doubt Depp's Sparrow as the anti-hero we have a muddled mess of characters, most of whom have supernatural elements. Couldn't they just makes the villains of the piece, evil yes but believable too, instead of a squid-thing and his army of molluscs. In this sense the film strives too hard to be a fantasy when it could have been, more simply but more effectively, a much more plausible mythical, historical action movie with pantomime characters we can all relate too. What makes these films even worse, if that is possible, is the sheer awfulness of the two young leads. How Keira Knightly became a success in Hollywood at a young age is beyond me, I've seen better acting on a football pitch and as for Orlando Bloom, well he is more wooden than The Flying Dutchman! Just to top it all off can someone please tell me what that Calypso thing was about...!? Ray Harryhausen mythical 60's monster movie this is not and even then pretty much all of them are more convincing than this.
4/10