by DN

Created on: October 30, 2008

'Why?' was my initial thought while watching this film, 'Why?.... Why? .... Why?'

Almost every other scene had huge question marks. The general plot felt like it was inspired by a game of musical chairs. I honestly felt like I could write a book on all the finer details which just didn't add up. To avoid any serious plot spoilers, all the examples listed here appeared almost straight away. There are ALOT more as the film goes on...

The film opens with Lord Beckett killing everyone who has any connection what-so-ever to anyone who knows a pirate. Suddenly a child with a coin starts singing, everyone else joins in, someone runs to Beckett and says, "They've started singing!" Beckett announces, "Finally."

Questions:
Why do they all start singing?
What is the coin all about?
Why does Beckett announce, "Finally," in such a confident manner, when five minutes later he seems to have no idea what any of it was about just like the rest of us?

This is briefly mentioned again, some vague annoucement that it represents "the call", a completely different coin which looks the same is dangled in front of a pirates ear. The pirate seems unimpressed and the whole singing coin things fades out of the story without any real point.

Next up, good old Will Turner seems to have turned to the dark side. It turns out he doesn't give a monkey's about Jack or anyone else. His mission is to save the black pearl, steal it and use it to rescue his father.

Questions:
Even if we ignore that turning to the dark seemed pretty unlikely for Will, how does he know the black pearl will still be in one piece when they find Jack since the last he saw it was devoured?
Why is the black pearl still in one piece when they save Jack?
How does owning the black pearl bring him even slightly closer to saving his father? Yes, the black pearl is very fast... so...?

Will and Elizabeth are refusing to talk to each other.
Why? OK, Will is upset because he saw Elizabeth kissing Jack, why is Elizabeth refusing to talk to him?Their yo-yo relationship starts to get tiresome.

The questions pile on and on.

On the plus side, Captain Jack and the undead Monkey Jack are both pretty cool and the film has plenty of humourous little moments which do help to make the viewer forget about most of the smaller plot holes.

For anyone who watched and enjoyed the first two, you obviously have to go and watch it. Just lower your expectations and you won't be too disapointed.

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