Arrrghhh! 'Pirates 3' be a disappointment!

After 10 months of anxiously waiting the third installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, I was so excited to revel in another swashbuckling grand adventure of Captain Jack and company last Thursday evening.

Or so I thought.

Previously, I had written about how the director, screenwriters, and cast all acknowledged that "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" would be confusing. Well, as it turns out, they weren't kidding!

About half way through the movie, I realized that I had little idea of what was going on. Characters kept shifting alliances and I couldn't tell who was on whose side. It also didn't help that the film had developed about (seemingly) a hundred different storylines and I had a hard time keeping track of the plot development. Boy, no wonder critics panned the film.

Worst of all, the film is devoid of the wit and charm that made the first film, "PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl" so wonderful. Humor seemed somewhat forced, replaying some of the gags from the previous films (though it was nice to see again Mulroy and Murtogg, the two British soldiers from the first film who argued each other about the existence of the Black Pearl). Captain Jack, while always the charming scallywag, just did not have the "zing" from the original film. It was obvious that the writers did not focus on character development. But then again, how can you when you've got a hundred different plot lines to deal with?

On the plus side, the film began to pick up after about 2 hours, culminating into a grand (but perhaps borderline ludicrous) maelstrom battlescene. Without giving away the ending, I wasn't disappointed by it, but it was anti-climatic and left me somewhat dissatisfied. And of course, it left the series open to a possible 4th film.

So there you have it. I was feeling sad as I left the theater--despite the fact that the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy was disappointing, there would be no more stories of Captain Jack (unless of course, he signs on to do a 4th film).

Oh well. The DVD comes out this December :)

Entertainment Weekly's sneak peek at PotC3

Anyone who knows me knows that I am OBSESSED with "Pirates of the Caribbean". The first film, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" was so fun and wonderful and Johnny Depp was awesome in his Oscar-nominated performance as the delicious Captain Jack Sparrow.

The second film, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest" was good, but its somewhat confusing storyline was disappointing for me. But then again, the first movie was so awesome, I naturally had high expectations for its sequel.

Now that the debut of the third film, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End" is nearing, I had high hopes for what might be the final installment of PotC. Perhaps the director and screenwriters had learned from what I thought were mistakes of PotC 2 and produce a swashbuckling finale to the series. However, after picking up this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow on the cover--I HAD to pick it up :P), I learned that this was not the case.

The director, Gore Verbinski, and the screenwriters, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, acknowledged the complexity of previous film and why critics had slammed it. But they didn't change anything for the 3rd film. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer even attempts to explain the story, but ends up with a "It's a little confus--".

Bad sign. Not what I wanted to hear.

Orlando Bloom: "'Someone asked me, 'So tell us about your character's arc in the third movie.' I said, 'Dude, the writers can't even explain the third movie.'''

Uh oh.

Verbinski tries to justify the apparent complexity of the film: ''I don't mind if people find it confusing. I don't want to dumb it down to where it's just processed cheese and you're not thinking about it afterwards.'' He and the screenwriters insist nothing was done to take the criticisms of Dead Man's Chest into account when production resumed on At World's End. The films had been ''designed for multiple viewings,'' says Rossio. ''You couldn't do a course correction. That presumes that the course was off.''

Why oh why would you do this? It's not just the critics--I didn't like the second film as much as the first because I thought it was confusing too. And not just me--many of my friends agreed with me. Even my dad, of all people, didn't like it as much because it was too dark and not as entertaining.

Anyhow, the rest of the article is here.

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