It was the first Walt Disney Pictures release to receive a PG-13 rating.Set-pieces:Will Turner""s swordfight in the blacksmith shop with Captain Jack Sparrow, the transformation scene of pirate Captain Barbossa into an ""undead"" skeleton, the attack of thePearlupon theInterceptor, the underwater surprise ambush of the ""undead"" skeletal pirates upon theHMS Dauntless, and the final sword fight between the two "immortals": Barbossa and Sparrow.You have to get ready.We are counting on you to bring us home this year." To reunite his dysfunctional family, Michael promised his mother: "I won""t let you down.")At the same time, Laurie drove to her place of work, Uncle Meat""s Java Hole bookstore/cafe run by ex-hippie Uncle Meat (Howard Hesseman), where she confirmed she was going to attend the Phantom Jam costume party for Halloween with her Goth/punk-rocker friends:Harley David (Angela Trimbur)Mya Rockwell (Brea Grant), blonde co-workerDuring Michael""s trek by foot, he was confronted by hree white-trash hillbillies (two males and one female - a daughter of the driver) in a pickup truck (decorated on the grill with mounted deer antlers).In Washington, DC, Lois Lane ambushed the US Secretary of Defense Calvin Swanwick (Harry Lennix) in a men""s washroom - he had been avoiding her phone-calls.But then Charming charged at Shrek and stabbed him, apparently in the stomach.Although Charming announced: "A new era finally begins," and ordered his subjects to bow to him, Shrek stood behind him smiling, informing him that his aim had missed -- and that he needed to keep looking for another ""happily ever after."Trinity: "I better go."As the mysterious black vinyl-clad heroine Trinity had suspected, their computer connection was not clean - their conversation had been traced after their hard-line was cut.