The least of the three ...

Rating: 7/10 (9 June 2007)

I loved the first film; I really liked the second one. This third one? Eh.
The plot is too convoluted; everyone seems to have a deal with everyone else, and there's little way to follow along -- except for the fact it all moves SO SLOWLY. The pace in this film was clearly lacking from the previous two (especially the first one); again, perhaps it was the convoluted plot with its intricacies.
The humor was really missing from this film; the witty banter that marked the first so prominently and slightly dropped off in the second was demonstrably absent from this film. Two-thirds of the way through, I realized I just hadn't laughed much with this film at all.
The conclusion was good -- ridiculous as expected, but good. The imagery of the two ships spiraling down while fighting for their lives was great. But it just took too much time and energy to get to that point. And what happened to Calypso? She just turned into crabs, brought some bad weather and disappeared? Not very good resolution in that storyline, considering all the play it got in the first parts of the film. Also, the deaths of Gov. Swan (off-screen?) and Adm. Norrington were disappointing since the deaths were so ... irrelevant. I mean, why even both including either one of them in the film's plot? The acting was fine; Depp was at his worst with his clones, however. Geoffrey Rush seemed to have a different accent than he did in the first film, and Calypso? You can barely understand a "wort de iss sighing". Lame! Overall, it was fun, but a little bit of a let down all things considered.