Film Muser Rating : 1 / 5
Release Date : May 24, 2007
Running Time : 168 minutes
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Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End is the third installment of the franchise. This episode takes off where the second film, Dead Man’s Chest ended - Captain Barbosa (Geoffrey Rush), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) head into the “netherworld” to save Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from his untimely death. The rest of the story is Will Turner trying to save his father from his zombie-like state on Captain Davy Jones’ (Bill Nighy) ship, the British trying to eliminate the pirates, the relationship between Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, and….well, it just keeps going on, and on for three hours.

Pirates of the Caribbean : At World’s End

In short, this movie is terrible. The story is convoluted and near impossible to follow. Even if you had not seen the previous two films in the series, you would find yourself just as confused if you had. Pirates 3 is constantly moving from one story to another without giving the viewer any reason as to why. It seems as thought there were about five writers who each wrote a piece, mashed it all together, and sent it to production.

As awesome as Johnny Depp was in the the first film, Pirates 3 is really just more of the same. As funny as he was at certain points in this film, we’ve seen it all before. It was cool the first time, but now it’s just getting old. Orlando Bloom plays the same role as he seems to play in every other movie, and Keira Knightley just does not come off as a pirate - let alone a “Pirate King”. Bill Nighy does a good job voicing the squid faced Davy Jones.

As expected the effects are incredible, and there are plenty of them. All of the animated characters look solid, and they meshed into the film seamlessly. The only time that I thought they didn’t cut it was when Jack Sparrow had a couple imaginary Jack Sparrows sitting on his shoulder, giving him advice. These must be really hard to do, because every film seems to have trouble making miniature people interact convincingly with full-size people.

There’s no way I can recommend seeing this movie, but I’m assuming that most people will anyway. If you can hold out, this is definitely a renter. The only reason to see this in the theatre is for the huge special effects, which most people cannot enjoy fully in their home. If you do decide to see it, you can expect a confusing thread of stories that will leave you scratching your head and asking, ‘huh’? Don’t be surprised if you don’t remember anything about this movie the next day. It’s not much different than the the second one, acting as nothing more than filler for the next sequel. I’m sure that this film is going to make unreal money, and break all sorts of records. I saw it opening night and upon the movie finishing, the theatre burst into applause. I applauded silently because I was so happy that it was over.

Memorable Scene
A British captain finds himself in a hopeless situation as his ship is bombarded by the pirates. As he realizes his immanent demise, he goes into a daze, and starts to walk through his ship. The scene goes into “Matrix” style bullet time as the debris flies all around him. Not the most original of ideas, but it did look cool (come on, I’m grasping at straws here).