Pirates of the Caribbean Part 3: Journey to the End of the World or the end of my wallet.

Johnny Depp plays his usual fantastic Jack Sparrow and I couldn’t wait for the pirate version of Ken Watanabe. What happened? A mythical goddess pops out of nowhere and fades into the see taking an extra half hour to cover all the story lines in a movie that was way too long. Without even a hint of this in the second movie, it was a lead anchor on the an incredible action movie.

Years ago we complained when movies were too long, now they are too long and no one says anything. A sequel doesn’t have to be longer than the movie before it, just good (hopefully better) and in itself a contained movie. No one wants to be disappointed so the studio throws in everything it can, but when that is just a Chinese buffet where we eat too much a lunch we are not in for a five star meal.

Knightly becoming a pirate queen in a twist of fate bought about by Sparrow was perfect, the multiple Jack Sparrow crew was great, the final whirlpool battle was fantastic. Why oh why couldn’t they have made this 20 years ago and cut anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and made us walk out going “WOW”. This phenomenon is also seen in Spiderman 3.

Would I recommend seeing this movie? If you liked the first two yes, but try to catch a matinee and save some money, or wait until the DVD comes out and watch it on a big screen TV and decide when you want to have an intermission.