I have enjoyed the POC series. It is delightfully over the top. Kind of tastefully tacky. Many say that Jack Sparrow is Johny Depp's best character. I believe he is his best character for children, but I kind of got tired of him by the end of the trilogy. When I say over the top, I mean that in every possible regard. Budget, action, drama, story progression, sets. Somehow the acting always seems to be spot on though. Maybe that's just because in relation to all the excess around them, there is no way the corny characters could out do it. The producers damn well try near the end of this installment with some ridiculous cameos and a couple of questionable pirate lords, but it somehow never deteriorates fully into camp.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At world's End is the type of movie that you don't question. You just watch and enjoy all the pretty things that Jerry Bruckheimer's money can buy. The action never ends. When there isn't action, there is palpable tension that you know is going to blow up into action at any moment. It's all a lot of fun and at times very funny. You can always rely on these movies for some great laughs that you wouldn't expect from a pirate movie. There is one scene where Jack Sparrow is in the thralls of what seems like a terrible hallucinogenic trip. It's visually exciting, but a good example of how the jokes in this film aren't quite on par with the caliber of the previous two. Keira Knightley looks stunning as Elizabeth Sparrow who is a testament to the strength and ferocity of womanhood in this one by a factor of 10 times the feminosity of the first two films combined.

The movie is escapist entertainment in the purest sense. Your mind will be reeling from the visuals and cheetah paced story line. There will be no opportunity to stop and linger on the thought of how to pronounce Caribbean and how both pronounciations are very nice sounding. That is until the end.

I don't know if they had a couple of million dollars left over in the budget or what, but after a humongous naval battle, things culminate into an untehtered exhibition of bravado. I won't give anything away, but let me just say that if you are walking through an area where a lot of large pieces of wood are flying around at high speeds, you're going to get at least a couple of splinters. That stuff didn't bother me though, it just made me chuckle. The thing that pissed me off was how the filmmakers placed some overweight d-bag into every single scene at the end of the film. O.k., the pirates are cheering, cue some baggy cheeked dweeb, who we have never seen before in any of the three films, to say "shiver me timbers" and have all the main cast members look at him in a puzzling manner. O.k., move on from that as if it didn't happen, but show him looking very awkward and out of place in many celebration shots alongside the characters the audience has come to enjoy and love. O.K., at the very end the main pirates gather for a final goodbyeish shot. Place d-bag in the back with a cowardly dog look on his face. I didn't know what to think. The audacity of the filmmakers to disrupt the final moment in the series of 3 major blockbuster films with some cheap inside joke confused and infuriated me. I just did a quick search and I'm not ceratin, but the fat guy may have been the director, Gore Verbinski. If so, what a d-bag.