Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer touched gold with Johnny Depp in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. That one has been retitled with The Curse of the Black Pearl added to it to set it apart from the other two movies in the - thus far - trilogy franchise.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End debuted in theaters on May 24 and went on to rake in $58 million on the first day. With a long Memorial Day weekend in the offing, the latest film should haul in the swag, matey!
At more than two and a half hours of viewing time, fans are definitely getting their money’s worth in volume. However, there are some quality concerns. The plot is full of betrayal and alliance switching, some conflicting agendas, dropped plot lines, and rabbits out of a hat.
The second movie introduced a proposed romantic triangle between Jack, Elizabeth, and Will that just didn’t really get followed up on in this movie. It’s still there, but it’s like the writers found out a lot of the fans hated the idea of the triangle springing up out of nowhere (because it wasn’t alluded to in the first movie in any way) and decided to pull it out of the third movie.
Furthermore, the Brethren of Pirates bearing the nine pieces-of-eight (which jarred every time someone mentioned it) was never given any real weight in the first movie, then it had everything to do with the third. The history of the binding of Calypso came out of nowhere, and she appropriately vanished into the same thin air when she left.
The history between Davy Jones and Calypso was pretty good, but it felt like the story was woven into the pre-existing history of the second movie. (I’ve gotta check my Blu-ray discs of the second movie when it comes in to see if Calypso really wore the heart pendant that figured into this movie so prominently.) Then that story line just fell off the edge of the world at the end when, after such a big build-up, there should have been a bookend to finish it off.
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Article comments
1 - Dynamo of Eternia
"Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer touched gold with Johnny Depp in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. That one has been retitled with The Curse of the Black Pearl added to it to set it apart from the other two movies in the - thus far - trilogy franchise."
I don't believe that any retitling has occurred there. The first movie was called 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' in the advertising for the first movie prior to it even originally coming out in theaters, from what I recall. I don't remember them ever changing the title because of sequels coming out later.
2 - Chris Beaumont
That is true, there was no retitling, unlike what happened to Pitch Black and Raiders of the Lost Ark....
3 - name
I don't have a comment because I thought it would be so bad that I didn't even watch the damn thing!
4 - cody
well i thought that it was a really good movie although it didn't make sense when jack,will,elizabeth,and barbossa killed lord becet because the rest of his army should have fought to get revenge.us