Yo ho, Yo ho, a movie refund for me...

Rating: 2/10 (8 June 2007)

I was looking so much forth to seeing this movie... but boy was it ever a waste of money, time and none the least braincells. To be honest I think this movie is too over-hyped and overrated.
The first 10 minutes had me thinking 'this is gonna be grand'... But after the fight scene in Singapore in the beginning there was only one way for this movie and the plot was heading the same way as Barbosa and Will Turner in the scene where they get to the edge of the world: Down. Talk, talk, talk. And am I the only one annoyed by the constant jokes the one-eyed pirate and fat pirate kept telling? At least leave 5 minutes in between the jokes if you want others than people with the mentality of the cast from 'Hills have eyes' to take the movie a little more seriously. Plus what was up with this 'Calypso'? First it was Knightley then the Jamaican chick? And in the scene where her name has to be said 'as to a loved one', when the heck did the one-eyed pirate start loving her? Maybe I missed something but that seemed a little out of the blue. And the end: I thought that Verbinski would had had the great idea of ending the whole trilogy by making the whole Armada and remaining pirate lords fight an epic battle but apparently he thought that only two ships circling around in a maelstrom would be cool. Even though I liked the fight scene (not the sea-battle but the hand to hand combat-scene) in the end of the movie I might have had too great expectations to this movie.
The last pirates-movie that is in the making can only get a better script even if the screenwriters tape a pencil to a kittens tail and make it walk across paper. For the record, I'm not convinced by this movie and I wasn't the only one who found the plot confusing and rancid. I might be harsh but I expected more especially since pirates 1 and 2 were so great.