The plot convolutions got to be hard to follow, and the constant switching of sides became a headache, though it played out well in the end. I had to work harder at this movie to stay up to speed, which is fine except that I’d earmarked it as a fun, casual movie where I could watch Johnny Depp pull off once more one of the most interesting characters to grace the movies in years.
One of the British Navy men said of Jack Sparrow, “Do you think he plans all this out, or just makes it up as he goes along?” or words to that effect. I couldn’t help but feel that way about the script. It was all well done, but some of it seemed to be plotting and twists of convenience.
It also got hard to latch on to the emotions of the characters because of all the shifting. There were so many storylines involved that it was all I could do to focus on keeping up rather than noticing how the characters were doing and how they felt. Emotional turmoil for me as a viewer seemed almost to be an afterthought.
But the characters are wonderful. The actors and actresses obviously had a great time showcasing this insane and exciting world again. When Jack Sparrow was talking to himselves, and commanding himselves, on The Black Pearl in Davy Jones’s Locker, it was hilarious. But there was something missing. Sparrow works much better when he has others as an audience and to interact with.
And Jack Sparrow actually comes into the movie really late. In the first two movies, Sparrow is on-screen almost at once, in scenes that absolutely mesmerize. Crewing a sinking dinghy, shooting his way out of a coffin floating in the ocean, those are what I was looking for when this movie opened. But when it did get to Sparrow, Depp rose to the task and had me in stitches all the same.
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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