Release Date: May 25, 2007
Watch Date: April 7, 2025
“Just when he’s needed most, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), that witty and wily charmer of a pirate, is trapped on a seas of sand in Davy Jones’ Locker. In an increasingly shaky alliance, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) begin a desperate quest to find and rescue him. Their reason? Captain Jack is the last of the nine Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court who must unite in a final stand to preserve the freedom-loving pirates’ way of life.”
How we managed to finish an entire trilogy in one weekend honestly escapes me. We’ve been having a really hard time finding time to finish this movies this year, and it’s not for lack of desire. It’s just been so busy, and people have been sick, and new jobs have been started, and schedules have needed ironing out. I’m not going to say that we’re finally at a point where we might be able to establish some sense of routine, because whenever I’ve hoped for that since we’ve started this blog, something’s come up. What I can say is that Bob’s schedule probably won’t change again anytime soon, and I think we might be coming out of cold and flu season so maybe, possibly, hopefully, we’ll start getting this train back on track? Possibly this might be the start of a turn around for our site?
But I’m not getting my hopes up.
What I can say with certainty is despite me and Bob experiencing an extremely bad illness at the same time, something that rarely happens, and despite the fact that I’m still basically bed ridden on day five and Bob is on day two and back to work, something that sadly happens all the time, we managed to stay conscious and focused long enough to finish our third movie in as many days.
There should be a prize, but since I’m the one who have to invent the prize, I doubt there will be one.
This movie is an extremely solid end to the trilogy. It provides a good stopping point for Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan’s story. It leaves both Barbossa and Jack exactly where you’d want them to be and while there is an opportunity to follow both of our pirate characters are further adventures, we don’t have to – and we shouldn’t have but that’s a topic for a different post. Characters grow, redeem themselves, there are no loose ends, at least none that seem worth mentioning or worrying about. There continues to be references to the ride, which I appreciated very much. It’s just a really solid film. There didn’t need to be a Pirates trilogy, but if there was going to be a Pirates trilogy this is pretty much the perfect tone to end it on. High adventure, pirate lords, goddesses, Davy Jones’ locker. It’s about as high seas and swashbuckling as you can get.
There’s not much to say about this movie that I haven’t already said in the previous write ups. I will say that the idea of taking over the Flying Dutchman does seem to only occur to Jack in this movie, and all the downsides don’t seem to bother him, so my theory about that being why he was so conflicted in the last film doesn’t hold up, but I’m alright with that. I’m sure in another decade or so I’ll feel an overwhelming urge to watch the trilogy again and will notice some other character motivation that might account for it, or I’ll have read something in the interim that makes sense. If you’ve taken the time to watch the second one, then you basically need to watch the third one because you’re not going to be at all satisfied with the ending of the second one otherwise, they really are one cohesive unit and one without the other makes no sense at all, neither is it very compelling. But other than that, I’d still highly recommend it.
Will I feel the same about the following two films in the franchise?
I’m going to give you a hint: I won’t.
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