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Romance: The romance between Will and Elizabeth is put on hold, and a monkey wrench is thrown in when Will witnesses Elizabeth and Jack toward the end. However, I think he mistook what he saw. I don't think Elizabeth was deeply interested in Jack. I think it was a combination of two things -- 1) answering Jack's challenge to taste what the other side is like, and 2) it was a goodbye kiss, because she knew she was consigning Jack to death. I'm sure part 3 will resolve that question.
The problem with that is, everytime the other used the compass it pointed to the other person... They left that opened ended as the treasure was always by the person or the other love... Thats my take anyways...
Action: There is a lot of decent action in this one, probably a little bit more than in the first one. I saw a thing on the Disney Channel about the choreography of the 3-way fight scene between Norrington, Will and Jack on the water wheel. They actually did do that, the wheel wasn't just added in with cgi later (though much of the background was), and it wasn't stunt people, it was the real actors, according to that interview, so that impressed me a lot. I'm torn on the action with the kracken. On the one hand, it was extremely chaotic, and that's how it actually would be if such a creature existed and attacked in that manner. On the other hand, when it was attacking the Black Pearl, I kept thinking, damn, when is this going to end and how can there still be anything left of that ship?
The kraken was confusing, one minute is could eat a ship whole, the next it was being passive.. Then came up and took the ship down with it..I know they needed to draw out the battle more, just wish they would have had the kraken on top of the water more like in the end..
The compass: At first I thought the whole compass thing was a little silly, until I realized what it was actually about. It's actually sort of a metaphor, it's part of what gives Jack a sense of moral direction. It's his "moral compass," so to speak.
The compass just shows the item you want the most, At first Eliz wanted Will, then it started showing Jack.. This is why the compass tracked down the first treasure, and the key to the chest and started going all funky when Eliz was imprisoned and Jack did not know what he wanted after he got the key... This is where Jacks moral side kicked in and confused the compass as to what Jack really wanted...
All in all, I give this one two thumbs up. I don't know if I like it better than the first one, or just equal, but it is definitely worth the ticket price, and I can't wait for the third one!
Its a average action flick, and defiantly a must see to all fans of the first movie and those wanted to finish watching the trilogy... But the movie just lacked a solid plot and storyline of the first one.. The acting was fine, the Cgi was fine and the sets were great.. Just the storyline and plot killed the movie, and all the filler time, this movie should have been an hour and half to maybe two hours long, not two and half... How exactly is Barbosa alive??? Me thinks voodoo magic since you see his boots at the first visit laying on the table, but why him?? They could have used Jacks dad as the new captian...
The guy that did the sets and costumes for the Flying Dutchmen though did a fantastic job, of course this could be because that story was one of my favorites as a kid...
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