Too much from everything results in "nothing to remember"

Rating: 4/10 (19 November 2007)

Well, just how it is with all monster trilogy/sequels "Pirates..." has to be even more bigger and spectacular as the first two ones. And it is, the movie is far more than two hours long, there are more characters, more tricks and more plot lines.
Everything starts really cool and after the first 30 minutes without Johnny Depp we feel still fine with what's happening. And then, Sparrow arrives, does weird one-liners, jokes, moves and everything, and we still feel fine, because we liked the first movie - in a way. After about 50 minutes we still believe there has to be a believable story behind all this, and after about 80 minutes we were confronted with even more mysterious plot lines and desperately hope that everything fits together in the end...
But, this does not happen. Instead we are confronted with lots of "this is my ship, get your own crew, get off my ship, let's enter the other ship, and where is the plot anyway?". The result is really boring after half of the film and continues 'til the end, which is even more disappointing. In conclusion, there is nothing we can follow through the film, just the hope that a final showdown will solve all our problems. But if even this showdown fails, the whole film remains in our minds as just an bombastic pirate movie-clip with nothing to remember at all.
And Johnny Depp? Well, we plays his role just like before, which was basically great in contrast to the other characters and a quite simple plot. But this time - within all this chaos - his character somehow lacks any believable profile, so that he emerges into "something weird".
Overall, this movie lacks too much of those basic things that makes a movie really watchable over and over again.