IT WAS BLOODY AWESOME! YAAAAY!
XD
Dude, convoluted or not, damn if that wasn't one of the funnest 3 hours I've had in the theater for a loooong time. (Granted, I loved Lord of the Rings, but those weren't fun--those were depressing. Depressing in a good way, but not "fun.") Soooo much better than Dead Man's Chest...the action worked, the comedy worked, the special effects were awesome, Davy Jones kicked ass, Barbossa kicked ass...a lot of great little moments...though, I still don't think they correctly captured Jack Sparrow's character in it. In the first one, he had this Columbo thing going on--this brilliant trickster mastermind who pretended to be a fool. But in the second and third, those two layers were sorta reversed, so that he was more like a fool who thought he was brilliant. But oh well--at least in this one we got to see how bloody insane he actually is, so that makes up for it for the pure entertainment factor of seeing an entire crew of Johnny Depp's.
FUN! I mean...the shivering monkey...the dog's keys (how'd he escape from the cannibals?)...Keith Richards...the wedding scene...whirlpool battle...the midget pirate coming out a hole then firing the huge gun and being launched right back into it...the eel-headed crew member...
But, yeah, it isn't perfect. Voodoo Lady/Calypso's lines were typically so cheesy and nonsensical that I was glad her accent was too thick to understand half the time, especially when she got all big in her last scene there. And poor Elizabeth, living on the island all that time! Sheesh, how'd she survive? Off of rum that might have been buried there? Did her child live off of rum too? Did they have drinking laws back then? Do they even apply on an island like that? Ah well, who cares, it's fun. XD