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Review: Pirates of the Caribbean 3

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Everyone's favorite pirate movie is back for a third round; Pirate's of the Caribbean! This is Nolegirl6, back with another movie review. This movie is two hours and fourty-five minutes long. If you are a pirates lover, or someone who likes action and adventure movies, I recommend this movie for you. Before you go to see it, I suggest renting the first two, to get better understanding of what is happening. It is rated PG13.

The main characters in this movie are Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Mr, Turner (or Will's dad) (Stellan Skarsgard), Calypso (Naomie Harris), Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush).

This movie starts off as people who have either been arrested due to piracy, or have had relationships with those convicted of piracy, are being hung. When a little boy steps up and starts singing, and all of the other prisoners do too. Suddenly you find Elizabeth Swann in Singapore, canoeing down a river. When she gets out, she meets Captain Barbossa, and they go to see Sao Feng, to ask for a ship. After some fighting, as you can expect from pirates, they set off to find Captain Jack Sparrow.

When you first see Jack, some might think he is crazy, dare I say lost his mind? Well don't be modest, I thought he was when I saw his ship in Davy Jones Locker. Well when Barbossa, Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner, and the rest of the crew you have come to know find them, they set off to get out of there. This is where you see them tipping the ship, as you might have seen in commercials.

They finally head to the Shipwreck Cove, where they have a pirate meeting. They must decide what they will do to get rid of the East Indian Trading Company, and elect a new Pirate King. Well, who they choose might not be who you expect, as good 'ol Captain Jack Sparrow changes up the vote. Pirates always vote for themselves, let's just say, one person didn't follow that this time.

As the pirates take action, what will happen to Calipso, Davy Jones, and the Flying Dutchman? Well as for that matter, you learn some very interesting things aboard the Flying Dutchman. You learn about Davy Jones and Calipso's past, and some other interesting things that you wouldn't expect.

As for Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, they go through a bit of a rough patch. See, Elizabeth didn't tell Will about killing Captain Jack Sparrow. They get angry because Will fails to tell Elizabeth something else. But in the end, does it all work out? Well, as previews have revealed, Will asks Elizabeth to marry her, and says 'I don't think now is the best time'. You will just have to watch to find out.

I enjoyed this movie. Critics say it was confusing, and that Captain Jack Sparrow came into the story way too late. I actually thought it was the most understandable Pirates of the Caribbean yet, call me crazy. And I also believed it was good for the first portion of the movie to be about something other than Captain Jack Sparrow, but it was a tad bit longer of a wait than I would have liked.

My favorite part of the movie is on the ships after the pirates make their decision, and crowning a new pirate king. My least favorite part was when Jack Sparrow was a prisoner and a guy comes out of the wall and takes out his brain, I found it very gross. My favorite person in the movie was Stellan Skarsgard, who plays Mr. Turner, or Will's dad. It's hard to explain, but for some reason how he is trapped on the Flying Dutchman and how at one part he tells Elizabeth that he won't be rescued by Will is so sad, that I loved it.

I interviewed some other people to see what they thought.

First, I interviewed Mallymomo (warning: spoilers ahead). Nolegirl6: What did you like best about this movie?
Mallymomo: I liked the special effects, it was like you were there. Especially when you see it in theaters, it sounds and looks so cool.
Nolegirl6: What did you like least?
Mallymomo: The ending: 10 and 10 years, that over the top.
Nolegirl6: People said this movie was confusing, would you agree?
Mallymomo: Yes, because it will say one thing then come back and say something different. It was confusing. And like how the story kind of changes.
Nolegirl6: Did you think Captain Jack Sparrow came into the story too late?
Mallymomo: Yeah actually, because me and my family love Jack and we were like 'Where's Jack?' Yeah, wayyyy too late.
Nolegirl6: Who did you like best?
Mallymomo: Keira Knightley

Next, I interviewed Mokey6.

Nolegirl6: What did you like the best?
Mokey6: I definetly enjoyed the fight scenes the best. In other words, my favorite part was the ending. It was amazing.
Nolegirl6: What did you like least?
Mokey6: Probably the fact that it was almost three hours long. They kind of dragged some things along too much.
Nolegirl6: People said it was confusing, would you agree?
Mokey6: No, see here's why. People are used to Pirates being action with all the sword fights, and also adventure. So when they put in a little of the other things, like mystery type-things, people were kind of like, "Oh what ever let's get to the sword fighting", and didn't pay attention to the parts, so they didn't understand what was happening. If you paid attention (like me) it made perfectly good sense.
Nolegirl6: Do you think Jack came into the story too late?
Mokey6: He did. In the other two movies he came in very soon, And in this one he did not come in until like 45 minutes in. That's too late. And he sort of is the main person; everyone is just wanting to see what he is going to do next. But it's a tragedy when there are parts of the movie that he is not in. And there was too much. But they were alright.
Nolegirl6: Who did you like best?
Mokey6: I'd say Barbosa did a splended job, great actor and all, but even though he came in too late, no one can top Captain Jack Sparrow. Well, they're kind of tied. They both were great.

Last, I interviewed pnklady5

Nolegirl6: What did you like most about the movie?
Pnklady5: It was awesome. It had a lot more action than the first and second movies.
Nolegirl6: What did you like least about the movie? Pnklady5: The fact that Will died then came back to life.

I give this movie a five star rating.

This is Nolegirl6, signing off, with another review. See you next time.

 

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