Pirates of the Caribbean 3 was pretty good. I could say it "blew me out of the water," but that would be stooping to back of the DVD quotes level. I didn't much like 2; too much action and too many new characters with too few resolutions, I thought. 3 is pretty much 2, but with less mind-numbing action and with more story. It's very confusing keeping track of everyone's motives and their arrangements and bargains and quarrels with everybody else (god, even the monkey has interpersonal conflicts), but if 2 was good for anything it was to prepare you for such confusion. Action, thankfully, is restricted only to certain scenes, and no more of this fighting invincible monsters nonsense. Of course, the action is pretty kickass in and of itself. The biggest fight scene takes place on two cursed pirate ships circling each other as they plunge into a maelstrom during a thunderstorm induced by an angry goddess. Oh, and Will and Lizzy get married in the middle of it.
No, I'm not going to say anything about fucking Jack Sparrow.
Although there is a pretty cool scene where he captains a ship manned entirely by himselves.
Oh yes, and remember the face of the boy at the beginning when you reach the end of the credits. Brr.
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