Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

I was very dissapointed by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. It felt more like a demo of expensive effects than a coherent movie. Much of "At World's End" could have been edited out and the result would have been a more compelling.

I think, sometimes directors want to give their movie a sense of magic by creating a world where anything can happen. The problem is that you end up with a world where nothing matters.

Is the heroine in trouble? Don't worry. Anything can happen!

Is the bad guy about to win? It's ok. Anything can happen.

There are so many arbitrary rules and so much random magic-- people dying, comming back life, being cursed and having curses lifted-- that I couldn't care about any predicament. Which is a shame. If they had whittled out the "after life" subplot, the "goddess of the sea" subplot and the "secret pirate meeting" subplot, then what remained could have been a fun pirate story.