Agreed. The 2nd movie was the best.
It seemed like Pirates was gonna be the new Star Wars. 1st one was great fun. The 2nd gets darker and more interesting "big picture." Loved Davy Jones, loved the Krakken, loved the "love triangle" they set up towards the end, loved the 'rescue my father' quest for Will, and the way they took straight-laced Norrington and completely flipped him into a drunken, angry anti-hero was freakin' brilliant. And then finally, the return of Barbossa.
The problem was that the third film completely 100% whiffed on the payoff for all this great setup. It got bogged down with introducing a bunch more crap like Chow Yun Fat, multiple Johnny Depps, dead Krakken, straight-laced Norrington again, Pirate Council and Keith Richards, blah, blah ,blah, and then some useless love stuff between Davy Jones and the witch chick. Plus it went on too long too.
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