It's all about the eyeliner..

Rating: 5/10 (28 May 2007)

Face it, we have to see this movie because we want to see Johnny Depp and Keith Richards. However, the fun of the first movie left with #2 and this one is more convoluted than that.
The very first thing is a huge public hanging. Rows and rows of people stepping up to be hung, including a child. They "finally" start singing while in line for their death. This seems to relieve the military... don't know why. This seriously could have been cut. Yeah, the government hates pirates and hangs anyone who every sailed with one, was born to one, yada yada.
Singapore? Totally a waste. There's a crew loaned to our friends by Chow Yun Fat, but again, not needed to advance the plot, and they seem to have an inconsistent presence.
Is Will Turner a traitor all the time? Part of the time? Never? Or just really clever? Hard to know. I think he is on the opposite side of Jack Sparrow the entire movie, even as he gets stabbed in the end and has to be saved by Jack, sort of. And while Elizabeth seems to take any side against Will that she can, she marries him the first time he asks while in the middle of a battle ("Captain Barbossa, will you marry us?") When Elizabeth & Will are given a small boast to go ashore for a honeymoon (deserted island)there's Will's boat in the distance, the one he has to return to without Elizabeth. However, no such craft awaits her. How is she getting off the flippin' island? I tried to stay through the credits, but finally gave up. I don't know what the surprise is... sorry.