Doesn't top the first one...

Rating: 6/10 (23 May 2007)

While I am a huge fan of the Curse of the Black Pearl I feel that number 2 and 3 has moved away from the original style and feeling of the movie. I like number 2 although it's not nearly as good as Curse of the Black Pearl but the delicacy of Captain Sparrow and his adventures are beginning to be so extreme that the story being told is forgotten. That's a shame cause the writers have really made something original here. As for At World's End I think that the tone of the Curse of the Black Pearl has been completely lost. Not that the third movie is bad or anything but the artistic link between the first and the third movie has disappeared. The characters have went from original but still likely to highly unlikely people destined to be something greater than we got the impression of in the first movie (especially Will Turner whose fate has just gone so unrealistic - still love him though). That annoys me a bit. The greatness of the first one was that it was so down to earth in an elegant way. The second and the third has lost that.
With all that said I quite enjoyed At World's End as a movie although there has been put a lot of more simple comic in it which (I'm sorry) makes the mood of the movie pretty ordinary and unoriginal. The spirit of Curse of the Black Pearl has disappeared.
But it was great to see all the characters again after all. The verbal fights between Captain Jack and Barbossa was just great.
All together the third movie doesn't top the first but is still entertaining although in a more ordinary way. Captain Jack will live forever ;)