This is a serious problem with Shanghai that affects every ride including Pirates. The screen and projection effects in Pirates look better on video because the cavernous rooms make the huge screens look as fake as they are. Sometimes they reflect onto the water too, which looks horrible. The Davy Jones animatronic and ending sequence with the two massive physical ships are just as good as they are hyped up to be though. Truly incredible.
Walking around Shanghai doesn't feel special because of those massive pathways I mentioned before. The restaurants have a large amount of un-themed seating that place you so far away from the good part of the restaurant it makes it feel like a cafeteria. There are not even close to enough rides. Including shows, the park can be completed in about six hours if you have a fastpass for Tron. The rides that are there are quality (except Buzz, which is easily the worst version of that ride), but they need twice as many of them.
The cool thing is that the front-line staff doesn't have a ton of concern about safety like back home, so I walked around the side of the castle and stood very close to the launch point for the fireworks. I could feel the pyro.
