Terribly long movie, but very entertaining. I have grown up reading stories of Phantom's ancestors bashing up Pirates, Treasure Isand, or detailed accounts of Blackbeard or Francis Drake or of Davey Jone's Locker... and therefore it was to use a weird word, a treat to watch the film. Three things stood out in the movie... the spontaneous humour... like the other emotions and humour were blended so well that it was almost like real life, but this was done better in the first film... then the fight sequences, especially the tavern scene with the trippy music, and the three way face off between the Commadore, Jack Sparrow and Will Turner, where each is fighting the other two, choreographed amazingly, especially the wheel sequence, and finally the cinematography. Cannot be praised enough. There were one off aerial shots that threw you off, and extremely difficult zoomed in shots of simultaneous events happening far away from each other, and the best of the lot being the camera turning with the giant wheel during the final face off.
The shortcomings are the story, which, even across three hours is not clear enough... has to be watched a second time around, and the legend of Davey Jones is not explained properly, so people not in the know will wonder what is going on, and finally, they should have either used skeletons (probably housing sea life) instead of sea life crossbreed like creatures for Davey's crew or given an explanation for their weird appearence.
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