Dead in the water

Rating: 2/10 (5 January 2008)

Not that I was looking forward to it, but the hype surrounding this movie actually put me off it until I got it for Christmas from someone who should know better. After watching and enjoying the first two episodes, I watch this last night hoping to be reasonably entertained. That I watched it all was proof that it was entertaining but at the end of the movie I turned to the wife and said: "Wow, I didn't think they could make s**te like this". She was asleep! The first two movies were funny and brain-dead entertainment which I like to watch on occasions and while this had some funny moments it was far too dark to be entertaining. I am not going to spoil the plot but it seemed to me that the movie was put together to merely tie up the odds and ends of the first two and if that was the case they could have done it with a five-minute segment at the end of part two. Depp is still good, though, as is Rush but the rest of the cast are now just annoying, especially Knightley, who was better in the first two. Disney are now just peeing me off at the moment. My daughter watches a lot of Disney on VHS and even she is disappointed with some of the latest offerings from the company. I have to say that Pirates 3 is just another Disney sequel that falls way short of the mark. 2 out of 10, mainly for Rush and Depp.