POTC3...are you wondering if it was worth seeing? Well, wonder no longer, go see it! The movie had everything...action, drama, comedy, love, and beautiful scenery...and of course Johnny Depp, isn't that enough?
We arrived about 7:15pm for the 8:00 showing and the theater was already mostly full. Good thing we didn't wait any later or we probably would have had to sit separately. I'll try not to give too much away, but be forewarned, this may contain some spoilers...
The movie opened with the laws that Beckett imposed or suspended being read and a line of men, women, and children waiting to hang at the gallows. Beckett has decided to rid the world of pirates and anyone willing to help or befriend a pirate in any way that he can. The end of the opening, when the boy starts singing and everyone joins in and then when he is hung and his coin drops and the opening title is displayed...awesome opening that displays how evil Beckett has become. Okay, bring on the movie.
Elizabeth is navigating a small boat through a crowded village in China, singing a nice little pirate song. Upon reaching her destination, she meets up with some friendly Chinese pirates and then is joined by Barbossa. While trying to avoid being seen by Beckett's soldiers, they continue through the village to meet up with one of the Pirate lords, Sao Feng. It's humerous seeing just how many weapons that Swan can carry on her at once. Okay, to sum up the rest of this scene, Turner was captured, there's a spy, a fight breaks out, Jack the monkey gets to blow things up, Turner makes a deal with Feng to get one of his boats and a crew, and they all head out to save Jack from Davy Jones' locker.
Skip to the next scene with Captain Jack Sparrow and his interesting crew aboard the Black Pearl. Funny, funny, funny! Ok, so now Jack is apparently crazy-er...and not invited to the garden party either. So, he's trying to get the Pearl from the middle of the dessert to the sea...not too easy to do, but this is Jack, so of course, he does it. When Barbossa and the gang finally find Jack, and finally convince him that they're not just hallucinations, the fill him in on what Beckett has done and that a meeting of the Pirate lords has been called.
After Sparrow and the rest of the crew get back to reality comes the real fun. Beckett sets up a deal with Jack that will allow him to take Davy Jones place as the captain of the Flying Dutchman, Wil Turner forms a deal with Beckett that will allow him to free his father from Davy's crew, Elizabeth is captured and meets up with Bootstrap who now has some form of amnesia, Norrington helps Elizabeth and her crew escape only to have Bootstrap kill him before he can leave as well, we meet the Pirate lords as well as Teague, Jack's father, and his mother, and Elizabeth becomes the Pirate king and declares war on Beckett.
We also get more details on the story of Davy Jones and his romance with Calypso (Tia Dalma) and there's a great scene with Jones and Dalma while she's in the brig of the Pearl. You could really sense the feelings of both characters, and when she puts her hand on his face and he becomes a man again....just wow. This one brief scene made up for the fact that Tia's character didn't really get explained in POTC2.
So, with Beckett's fleet on the horizon, the Flying Dutchman surfaces and battles with the Pearl. While Sparrow and Jones engage in their own sword fight, the crews of each ship fight it out. During the fighting, Wil and Elizabeth take a moment to have Barbossa perform a marriage ceremony. All the chaos and fighting around them seems to disappear when they finally get to kiss.
Sidenote...one of the best lines in the movie...this was actually hard to pick because there were so many great lines, but Jack has just done his cannon trick and is escaping through the air from the Endeavour to the Pearl...Beckett asks the sailor how soon they can start after the Pearl and then the Endeavour's mast snaps in the background, the sailor, looking in awe, says to Beckett "Do you think he plans it all out or just makes it up as he goes along?"
Anyway, Jack's plan is to stab the heart of Davy Jones so that he can take his place and sail the seas for eternity, but after Wil is stabbed by Davy, he realizes that the only way he can save Wil is to give up what he truly wanted and to let Wil stab the heart and save his life. (Yes, I cried.) Wil then becomes Captain of the Flying Dutchman, human crew and all, and takes over Davy's duties of helping those who died at sea cross over to the other side.
The Pearl and the Dutchman then team up on each side of Beckett's ship and blow it to smithereens. This scene is quite amazing. Beckett, large ego and all, walks along the ship as it blows up around him, finally ending in his death.
Elizabeth leaves the Pearl and she and Wil are on a beautiful island before Wil has to leave to fulfill his duties on the Dutchman. He leaves his heart, which he says has always belonged to her, with Elizabeth to guard and sails off into the sunset, disappearing with a green flash. Yes, I cried again.
Cut to Jack trying to smooth talk a couple of ladies into taking a ride on the pearl....er, but why's his ship out at sea? Barbossa stole the Pearl again with the map and plans to find the Fountain of Youth, only to find out that Jack removed the center of the map and will be tracking it down himself in his little row boat.
Roll the credits...but don't leave just yet, there's a short clip that takes place 10 years down the road (it actually feels like 10 years after all the credits too!) and don't forget..."keep a weather eye on the horizon."
Overall, I loved the movie. Bring on POTC4!
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