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Elizabeth acts (just for this scene, and nowhere else) like a spoiled and unreliable brat. Will, Jack, and Norrington become mindless, unskilled thugs who don't bother to keep track of the woman all three of them claim to love, and whose hatred for each other cancels out their own considerable survival skills. Elizabeth sees the chest being stolen (by two morons who seem to have forgotten that they just saw the Dutchman approach and submerge), then does an overwrought comedic double-take, and then sets out on a chase sequence without having brought a weapon along.

(After which Pintel and Ragetti, having previously established themselves as resonably functional [well, Pintel's useful. Ragetti is a half-wit] and atypically decent folk, suddenly turn on her for no other reason than that, hey, she's a woman. Then they demonstrate their never-before-seen hand-to-hand skills against Jones' pirates, apparently holding their own despite having only two swords [and no guns] between them.)

I gave up on it about the time Will and Norrington end up on top of the waterwheel (and Jack gets smashed into the wheel without actually taking any damage). We're to buy that, even without the key that brought them here, these two hate each other enough to ignore the fact that they're stuck atop an escaped waterwheel, and that they can maintain their fight while doing gymnastings around and in the wheel as it caroms about the island.

I'd expect Norrington to try something that daft, but Will is (everywhere else in both movies) depicted as a level-headed (if naive) swashbuckler.

Looney Tunes has a better grasp of physics than this whole sequence demonstrated.

Further, in any sequence like this, the actual fight choreography will suffer. Will and Norrington's skilled swordplay (established in the first movie) is reduced to wild slashes at each other as the actors are flung about on their wire-rigs. Again, the same kind of crap can be seen in RotS, when Anakin and Obi-Wan are duelling in the midst of an exploding refinery and erupting volcano --hacking away at each other as the battlefield disintegrates around them.

This mess did not belong in the middle of an otherwise great movie.

A better version would've had Will drop or sheath his sword and scramble clear of the wheel (Norrington can keep trying to stab him until he gets tossed away or crushed by the wheel), then engage Jack in a duel of wits. Meanwhile, Elizabeth would've confronted Pintel and Ragetti before they could get anywhere with the chest, leaving them to explain themselves with more wordplay.

--Hell, a better movie wouldn't have had any need for the waterwheel sketch at all, because everyone's priorities would have re-established themselves when Will explained about the Dutchman having just arrived. Our heroes would then have withdrawn into the island jungle to throw off the pursuit. In the confusion, Jack could steal the heart, then Norrington could steal it from Jack in turn.

Instead, we're expected to just throw out everything we know about these characters in favour of some slapstick spectacle. More of what you love from. . . every other movie out this summer.

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Originally posted by FloralBunny:
deepgirl187 wrote (in part):
But what I really noticed was how they both relate to their ships. To them, their ships are a part of them, a part that would hurt to lose. The importance they place on their ships is not something others can always understand, and is often something that gets them into trouble. But still they remain devoted to their respective homes.
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I was watching my PotC1 DVD one day right after
getting a Firefly fix, thinking how much I like
both my Captains. I took this down:

"It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and
sails -- that's what a ship *needs* -- but what
a ship *is* -- what the Black Pearl really *is*
-- is freedom.

It goes right along with Mal telling Zoe "Won't
ever have to be under the heel of nobody ever
again." (Hope I haven't hashed that line)

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Originally posted by EvilDinosaur:
I personally loved it and can't wait to see the third.

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11 July. In 1881 George, Prince of Wales (later King George V), as a 16-year-old naval cadet on HMS Inconstant off the Australian coast, wrote in his log book: 'At 4am the 'Flying Dutchman' crossed our bows. A strange red light as a of a phantom ship aglow... Thirteen persons altogether saw her, but whether it was van Deimen of the 'Flying Dutchman' or what else must remain unknown. The Tourmaline and Cleopatra... flashed to ask whether we had seen the strange red light.' At 10:45am, the seaman who first sighted the spectral ship fell to his death.

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Originally posted by tmurrie:
Ask a ninja has made a review for Pirates. This is the greatest movie review I have ever witnessed, check it out:

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Originally posted by N0Skillz:
It was a good movie even if the end did make me scream, out loud in the middle of the full theater,

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You GOT to be F**KING kidding me! and to which my friend followed with "@$$holes" and i think i heard a "Son of a B**ch" from somewhere else in the crowd

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