what a good movie this could have been...

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2007)

The third part of Disney's aspired pirate saga began so promising and amazing. The starting scene under the gallops and the brethren song chills you to the marrow and continues where the second Pirates part raised your hopes. And even to the middle of the movie you are fevering every second when you sail to Singapore, the World's End and see the piracy's end dawn under contracts and conspiracies.
But then something strange happens: amid action and progressing story more and more scenes of ridicule start to show up and impede the flow of the story. I can understand the idea of picturing Jack Sparrow's lunacy, but as much as I like to see the two British deserters switch into pirates, this just kills the momentum. By the time, we witness the 20th gag in the middle of deaths and relationship dramas, you just can't help but roll your eyes and hope for some surprise in the end (well, no). We hit the (anti)climax when Will and Elizabeth get married in between killing half an army of pirates. Fortunately, they find time for the bride's kiss after stabbing two foes.
Folks, THIS IS NOT A FUNNY PIRATE MOVIE, IT IS MAKING FUN OF PIRATE MOVIES! Probably I should have known better since Disney produced it, but the second part really raised my hopes for more. And catering the humor to kids does not really make sense in a PG13 rated movie, does it?
Compared to the second part At World's End does not feel too long, just a little annoying, and you will find an alright ending, but it never reaches the originality and coherence of a story as Part I. Yes, the special effects are amazing, the locations stunning and the actors do a good job. They make up some deal for the -I say it again- INCOHERENCE of the story, but not enough: 6 out of 10
I just wonder what this movie could have been..