With regards to the sets, the Singapore scenes were heart-stoppers. The intricacies of the docks, the tunnels, the waterways, and the rooms were elegant escapism. If I were to ever get the chance to see a true pirate hideout, I’d be sorely disappointed if they didn’t look exactly like that. And Shipwreck Cove was the bomb. It was a visual treat that really worked.
As in the first two movies, the action sequences were top-notch. Over-the-top and filled with martial arts elegance somehow tempered with brute savagery, they stand out as confections for the connoisseur of adventure films. Jack Sparrow’s final duel with Davy Jones atop the halyards was just amazing, edge-of-your-seat excitement thoroughly and unashamedly mixed with humor.
Even the final twists worked and fit the characters. No one was totally left in places where I would have wanted them, but their endings all made sense. However, I still have to wonder what lay in Elizabeth’s future and what she was going to do with her life. And Jack seems divided between two goals that appear mutually exclusive of each other.
All in all, though, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is an excellent movie. Fans will be somewhat happy, and properly expecting yet another in the franchise though none at present seem forthcoming. Those who haven’t seen the first two movies and are thinking about seeing this one to see what all the fuss is about are recommended to view the others first.
It be about pirates and magic, matey! What more could ye be a-wanting? Arrrrrrrr!
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Article comments
1 - Dynamo of Eternia
"Walt Disney Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer touched gold with Johnny Depp in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. That one has been retitled with The Curse of the Black Pearl added to it to set it apart from the other two movies in the - thus far - trilogy franchise."
I don't believe that any retitling has occurred there. The first movie was called 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' in the advertising for the first movie prior to it even originally coming out in theaters, from what I recall. I don't remember them ever changing the title because of sequels coming out later.
2 - Chris Beaumont
That is true, there was no retitling, unlike what happened to Pitch Black and Raiders of the Lost Ark....
3 - name
I don't have a comment because I thought it would be so bad that I didn't even watch the damn thing!
4 - cody
well i thought that it was a really good movie although it didn't make sense when jack,will,elizabeth,and barbossa killed lord becet because the rest of his army should have fought to get revenge.us