After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from the the land of the dead, they must face their foes, Davy Jones and Lord Cutler Beckett. Beckett, now with control of Jones' heart, forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Now, Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, to gathering. The Pirate Lords want to release the goddess Calypso, Davy Jones's damned lover, from the trap they sent her to out of fear, in which the Pirate Lords must combine the 9 pieces that bound her by ritual to undo it and release her in hopes that she will help them fight. With this, all pirates will stand together and will make their final stand for freedom against Beckett, Jones, Norrington, the Flying Dutchman, and the entire East India Trading Company.

Saw it over the weekend and was greatly disappointed. While it was entertaining it lacked the "oomph" and wow of the original. You could really tell Hollywood was trying to milk the franchise to every last drop. I'm glad I waited to see it rather then pay for the theater version ...

I paid for the theatre version.
*sigh*

ALTHOUGH, it totally stomped the second one. The second one was just bad. It was just plain bad. Randomly inserting characters, plot twists that are so lame and un-interesting, you want to vomit, and an ending that just doesn't make sense.

I thought the directing in this third movie was fantastic. In the spirit world, the artistic direction of the cameras and general feel of the place was fascinating. When it came to things that mattered, the movie flopped, as you said. But the filming was right up there, the cinematography and filmography did fine by my standards.

They should have left it at the original and worked to conclude things a little more and just call it good at one movie.
IMO