OMG IM IN MY JOURNAL, POSTIN' MY SQUEE.

Pirates. Fuckin'. Rocked. I almost walked out of the theater at the end, walked over to the ticket booth and asked if any tickets were still left for the midnight show.

Got there about two hours early and was twenty people or so back in line, so I got a fantastic seat. Watched Fantasmic, First Strike (*sigh*), and part of a Flipper episode on my iPod before the movie started.

And dude! "Enchanted" trailer! I saw it a couple of days ago on Animated News, and OMFG, that trailer is even more hilarious on a big screen. It got the biggest crowd reaction out of all the previews. I cannot WAIT for that movie.

Okay, okay, the good stuff!

First off? Issaquah crowd? You are TEH SUCK. I was the ONLY ONE IN THE WHOLE DAMN THEATER who recognized that Barbossa TWICE quoted the ride's big battle scene verbatim, and the ONLY ONE who recognized that THEY USED THE EXACT SOUND RECORDINGS FROM THE CAVERNS IN THE RIDE at one point. "Dead men tell no tales" got a giggle or two, but I doubt anyone really realized its significance beyond being in the first film. ISSAQUAH, YOU SUCK AT TEH DISNEYLAND. If you are equally lost, download and listen: Battle Scene, Cavern Scene

Okay, now that that's off my chest...

The kid getting hung at the beginning? Did NOT expect that. I figured it would be an opening battle where the pirates came in to break it up and the kid would live. Ha! I gotta say, though, it was damn powerful.

Elizabeth busting out eleven billion guns when searched? LOVE. It totally reminded me of Aeryn and the Peacekeepers in Peacekeeper Wars. :P

I think Ted and Terry must have been on the good stuff the entire time they wrote the scene of Jack and Jack and Jack and Jack... :P But I don't care, because OMFG SHIRTLESS JACK AND LOTS OF THEM.

Was anyone else completely confused by the shifting alliances? I totally lost track of who was on whose side.

Elizabeth's dad dying? SO sad. :( I did feel, though, like they really breezed over that. I guess there's some that has to go because of time constraints, and Elizabeth certainly held the grudge later. But at the same time, it was rather unexplained. We gt the hint that they would kill him, but then it kinda came in suddenly. And Elizabeth just as suddenly perked up after a few minutes of sulking (aside from the aforementioned grudge against our dear friend Norrington).

I wish I could say I was surprised about Tia Dalma being Calypso, but the farkin' Seattle Times ruined that surprise for me in their review. *sigh*

Elizabeth becoming "Captain Swann"? Hell ya! She's gone from being the most irritating character in the first movie to being my favorite by the third.

Norrington dying? Did NOT see that coming, and I thought it worked perfectly. I love how, in the end, he died saving the people he always claimed to despise, and died saving Elizabeth...

Was anyone else singing "It is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king?" :P

CUTTLEFISH!!!!!! XD

Keith Richards playing the guitar in the background? ROTFLMAO! "How's mum?" "*holds up shrunken head*" "...looking good."

I WANT ELIZABETH'S PIRATE COSTUME FROM THE END. Seriously. That was teh shit. Too bad I don't have NEARLY the sewing skills or budget for that.

I'm SORELY disappointed that Jack/Elizabeth did not prevail (unless that kid is Jack's... *las*) but that is seriously the sexiest wedding in the history of sexy weddings. "JUST KISS HER!"

I have to say, I wondered if Will wouldn't get it in the end, but silly me, I figured that they would take the easy way out and have him ride off into the sunset with Elizabeth. HA! I gotta say, HUGE kudos on that. I LOVED that it wasn't exactly the perfect ending for them. Made it very epic. :D I had really expected it to be Jack that killed Davy Jones... and then wondered if it might not be Bootstrap (thus freeing himself and allowing Will to remain with Elizabeth)... but I think they made the most interesting choice in the end.

The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-like guys becoming pirates? LOVE. :D

The sex on the beach? LMAO!! The boot thing was hilarious! And that was one damn sexy sunset kiss.

AND WHERE THE HELL WAS "WE WANTS THE REDHEAD"?!?!?! They set themselves up for it perfectly in the last scene with Scarlett, and it never happened. I FEEL GYPPED. That is, hands down, the best fuckin' line in the ride and it has GOTTEN NO LOVE. :(

But OMFG, she popped out the dead kid?!?! What the hell!?! Cute ending, but THE DEAD KID??!?!

I'm sure there's a billion things I'm forgetting. Feel free to bring them up!

Bottom line? LOVE. I love it as much as I did the first film, but for different reasons. I think this one had a much more emotionally involved storyline - it relied much less on the gags and the visual effects and more on the emotional impact. The love stories, the sacrifices and deaths of loved ones, and characters coming into their own. And I'm a sucker for that. And through all of that, they didn't lose sight of the adventure - that climactic battle has to be one of the biggest I've seen, and it was awesome.

..BUT THE DEAD KID?!!?!