Ya i saw it tonight .....awful...

There goes 150 minutes of my life... damn you to hell disney.

Glad i didn't go to see it with my friends!

I've heard of 'life partners' but not 'life fools'. I guess you must hate 'teh ninja'?

I loved Pirates 3, and thought it better than #2. I can't say any of the criticism or hate toward #3 are wrong. I dunno. I just...liked it. Maybe it was the quality crowd at the show I went to. Maybe it was my cute fiance sitting next to me munching on popcorn and laughing along with me. Maybe it was the oddity of two teenage girls dressed up in corsets, one holding a small male doll in her lap directly to my right. Maybe it was all the stress of the previous week, dying to have some fun on the Memorial Day weekend. In short, maybe I was in a bizarre frame of mind. But slap me thrice and call me my uncle's sister...I loved it.

I've heard an odd split of opinions on this so far. The most glowing reviews i've heard are from Fanboys I wouldn't trust anyway, the rest of the opinion seems split between "It's another popcorn flick" and "Dear god how long was that where did my time go". I went into II with low expectations and got something out of it, and I figure i'll view this one similarly.

Watching this movie was akin to listening to the sound the empty cans make falling from a hobo's cart. For 2 hours nonstop, in Dolby Digital.

The only thing I thought missed the mark in Pirates 3 was that they really tried to cram a whole lot of plot into one movie. Each character had about 2 or 3 little sub-plots going on with them all the time so you were never really sure which one of their stories you were watching at any given time.

It was definitely my least favorite of the three, but I still enjoyed myself. I just wish that if they had really wanted to tell all the stories they tried to in one movie, that they would have just made two movies instead and stopped worrying about cramming everything into a "trilogy".

So what's the big deal? The end-of-life production run of another Hollywood property..

The only thing I regret seeing it for is that I completely forgot that it had Chow Yin-Fat in it. I was resolving not to ever see another movie with him.

Uh, how about some spoiler tags there Mystic Violet.

Well, I've seen threads with spoilers, but the thread itself is usually tagged then. No spoiler tag on the thread usually means spoiler tags in the thread. But that's just what I've seen.

Honestly if you went into the movie thinking it was going to be anything but the tongue and cheek cheese factory paradise for Pirates, that the franchise as been moving towards, then I think you may want to rethink your expectation values. I mean after Pirates 2 why would anyone think this one wouldn't have the same cheese just more of it? The second one had character changes also and so does the third. There is ridiculous usage of animals in the second and surprise surprise the same happens in the third. Really all in all I enjoyed the movie probably because I expected huge cheese factor and no real serious tones.

All in all I actually liked it better than the second Pirates which I thought was lame and definitely groomed my expectations for the third.

Hugely dissappointing. Mrs V. was going absolutely beserk waiting for the third film to come out, but her first comment upon it finishing was, "Hmm... Bit long, wasn't it?"

Hardly a glowing recommendation of someone I thought would never shut up about the damn thing. The myriad plot holes and faux dramatisations (as Mystic detailed in here big spoilers quote) ruin the film's - hell, the entire trilogy's - continuity.

And can we just set the record straight, here and now; Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightly are f*cking abysmal in this film--Knightly being especially bad. Whilst she was tolerable in the first two, she's apparently been to The Ben Affleck School of "Shouting is Acting" in preparation for the finale. I was climbing the walls every time she spoke by about the halfway point. Also, the gulf in talent between those two and Johnny Depp is embarassingly huge; both were massively outclassed by Depp's never-short-of-brilliant performance in every shared scene.

If you must go and see it, revel in Depp's performance - but switch off as best you can the rest of the time.

Dammit. After the 2nd movie's disappointing bonus footage following loooooong credits, we didn't bother to stay this time around. I mean, I figured there were some, but didn't think it was worth sitting through the credits to find out. Has it made it up on YouTube yet?

So, I suppose I can get planted pretty squarely in the 'loved it' camp. I honestly don't get all the hate. It was goofy, funny, with enough action to remind you that these are pirates, and pirates kick ass(Not as much as ninjas or samurai, but that's ok).

Best part though?

All in all, I agree with WV; Depp was outstanding, and while Knightly and Bloom had some small moments, nothing really outstanding from either of them, they both felt very two dimensional, I guess. Worth watching? Sure, just don't expect something other than a good two and a half hours of goofy pirate movie with some high strung action here and there.

Because summer blockbusters are an easy target for people to hate, reveling in false feeling of their taste superiority. Very easy to show your refined and discerning taste when you're bashing something primal, garish, loud, and overdone. "Oh, this movie was so awful, I can't believe I went to watch it!" -- but they know they go and watch it nevertheless.

And then they go home and watch themselves some Anime drivel -- even more primitive, garish, loud, and overdone -- yet they deem it an art form.