Yep, irate and at my wits' end with this film. I have several gripes.
Firing a monkey from a cannon isn't that clever, even in comedy. In real life, the poor creature's ass would pass through its head before it left the barrel.
"Ah, it's only a film," cry its defenders. But those same cannons were firing cannonballs through wooden beams, a moment before. Create a fantasy world, by all means, but at least make the rules within that world constant. Consistency please, cannons either hurt or they don't. They aren't phasers that you can set to 'stun.'
Friggin' in the riggin' - How many times did the characters hang from a rope and swoop in beautifully-timed and graceful arcs without once encountering any of the other countless pieces of rigging on a sailship? The only frigging in that rigging was with the truth.
The Kiera speech - flat and tedious writing, totally predictable. If I was a 'irate' on that boat, I'd have been swmming to shore rather than listen to that hogwash any longer. The main problem was that the speech turned the morality of the film and the historical world on its head.
Her speech about 'fighting for our freedom' and 'dying as free men' works when it comes from the President in Independence Day because the people are ordinary folk fighting for their freedom against an alien threat. But Kiera delivers this speech to a bunch of psycopathic, murderous, foul creatures whose career paths are based on depriving other people of their property, their freedom, and their lives.
It should have been more apt for the captain of the Royal Navy to deliver that speech, at least then it would be a case of free men defending the rights of others against barbarians.
Best part for me was the surreal sequence where Johnny Depp was going insane, alone on the Black Pearl. I knew the feeling by that stage of the film.
Got to say it was better than the second but let's face it, that wasn't hard.