Many reviewers are going to focus on the gargantuan budget - and the monstrous running time to match -- but to do so is to undervalue the movie's many throwaway pleasures. Sure, there aren't nearly enough of them to justify the cost, but it's not like we had to pay the production bills. At most, we're out 10 bucks.
It would be fool's gold to attempt a plot summary, for this is a series that has become increasingly inscrutable -- it has the linear clarity of a bogus treasure map. At any rate, any movie that involves something called the "nine pieces of eight" doesn't really care if you can follow it.
Those pieces have something to do with the pirate lords who convene for a final battle with the East India Trading Company, which hopes to rid the seas of their kind.
Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), who was taken to the depths by a giant squid at the end of the last film, is one of these lords, and so his friends Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) set out to rescue him.
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