You've got to see it if you enjoyed the first two, great cameo from Keith Richards, but it should really be called the Johnny Depp Show, as he is the only good thing to watch apart from Bill Nighy's octo-beard. They went a bit overboard on the magic...(read more) an the mystical, and Chow Yun -Fat didn't get a good fight scene. But Depp is still enjoyable to watch stagger about in classic Captain Jack fashion, if a little reliant on recurring jokes. Bloom and Knightley reprise they're roles as flimsy scenery, but then again it was never about them really.
The film suffers quite badly from threequel syndrome, much like SPIDERMAN 3 and SHREK: The Third, in that it relies too heavily on the formula of its prequels and feels that the only way it can out do them is by upping the action and visuals to compensate for the lack of originality that made the first films so enjoyable. Even Depp gets a little too carried away with the Capt. Jack act, becoming a parody of his own characterisation that feels laboured on screen as opposed to hilariously fresh ( and indeed subtle) in CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (remember his fantastic entrance, stepping onto the pier) where his idiosyncrasies were played down yet still stole the show. Here the film desperately clings to his character for relief from the loose plotting and confused direction.
Still there are enjoyable sequences and a somewhat satisfactory conclusion (set-up for another film, which will hopefully ditch the stale love triangle between Bloom Knightley and Depp in favour of something fresh), and despite a confusing revelation about a sea goddess which seem to drift into the plot of THE LITTLE MERMAID the film delivers a decent diversion from the hum drum world of reality, if a little too divergent and fantastical than was necessary.
3/5
Words by: Smithee.
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