Pirates! Arrrrrrr!

I don't care what anyone says. I loved Pirates 3. Maybe I don't have refined tastes. I thought it was a ball. I loved the truly surreal moments, the "nobody move - I've dropped my brain" line, the action, the twists and the double dealing. I loved the end. I even - *gasp* Shock horror - think I might love all Orlando Bloom's chest shots!

Don't get me wrong - I am a Johnny Depp girl through and through and have, up to this point, found Bloom far too girly and squeaky clean in every part I've seem him play.

Perhaps he's grown up. Perhaps I've turned into a bone fide "dirty old woman" (tm).

I have always loved pirate films and their ilk. As a kid I used to watch Erroll Flynn and the Gainsborough type films on Saturday afternoons. - Captain Blood, The Wicked Lady, Son of Fury, The Sea Hawk, Anything with a pirate ship, swords and some buckles being swashed and I was in there. In like Flynn! :D I suppose this has carried over into the Sword and Sorcery stories which I just find so fulfilling.

I love to watch a thought provoking, esoteric film with exquisite character development and finely tuned plots. But I also love to be entertained. And this is what Pirates 3 did for me last night. 

Complete with swords, cannons, Orly's chest, Geoffrey Rush's scenery chewing and Johnny's totally off the wall performance. Actually Johnny and Geoffry seemed to be competing for who could devour the most scenery in the fastest time possible but there you go. In parts it was utterly surreal, which is also unusual in a Hollywood summer blockbuster.

I just keep drifting off and replaying little bits in my head!

Perhaps its a good thing when a film gets a poor review when it deserves (in my opinion) better. When you go, you expect the worst. This was never going to be the same as the first movie (anymore than Return of the Jedi was like Star Wars). But it was a rousing finale.

And yes, they did leave the way open for another one...

What else did we expect?

R