Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong?

>>83411279
Sarcastic answer - the moment they thought Pirates needed a sequel.

Actual answer - the writers fundamentally misunderstood what made the first movie so great, and once they'd made the mistake and gone down the rabbit hole, the inertia continued to carry them all the way to the bottom.

Black Pearl was basically a formulaic adventure story with a lot of style. The characters were never meant to be more than flat audience substitutes. The pirates were fun because they were concerned with treasure and saying "arr". There wasn't any metaphysical baggage or epic world-saving. The sequels should have been more like spinoffs - leave the couple to their Happily Ever After and follow other adventures around the Caribbean, with familiar characters like Jack drifting in and out.

>>83411279
>No swordfights
>Entire "stealing the bank" scene was long and pointless
>Releasing the Pearl from the bottle was anticlimactic
>Killing Barbossa
>Henry had no character development
>Getting the trident felt too rushed/overly simple


The opening should have shown Will meeting his son for the first time, telling him about the curse, and being heartbroken at sea over his fate and deciding to search for the trident. Then show his gradual change into a Davy Jones-esque character.

The Walrus was Paul

>>83411597
Yeah, should have been Will initially searching for the trident to break his own curse.

A series of scenes showing Will growing barnacles, claws and tentacles would have been cool, and added emotional weight for Henry's character.

>>83411279
The Compass Plot was done horribly.

IMAGINE:
A history of the creation of the compass and all of its former owners, those who betrayed the compass and what happened to them as a result. Would have been a really cool way to open the film.

Instead:

>1. Jack gave away the compass to Will/Elizabeth in a previous movie. Guess that didn't count?

>2. How would Salazar know Jack had the compass and that the compass would set his crew free? Salazar never even met Jack.

The Spanish Empire were the real good guys

>>83411279
It's a good movie

Only capeshit obsessed, stick up their ass losers think otherwise

>Somehow EVERY curse on the sea is tied to this one Trident and all you have to do is break it
>Every curse is supposedly repelled yet Davy Jones still exist somehow

Fuck you movie

Who said anything went wrong? Watch what this movie will do in China. That basically answers the question of why it was made. China apparently loves these shitty Pirate movies.

STOP MAKING FUCKING SEQUELS TO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN : THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL