Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Single-Disc Edition)
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Actor: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando BloomBrand: Walt Disney Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 167 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
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DVD Review: Still not sure what to think of this movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I really liked the first two POC movies, and after the second I was really looking forward to see how things got wrapped up in the third.
I must say that I was very disappointed. With all the time and care that seemed to go in the plots of the first two, the third seemed very rushed, bloated with unneeded characters, and choppy with the characters that really mattered. I'm going to break this down by the parts of this movie that I think a lot of people looked forward to and the different things that I found upsetting:
1. Jack's Rescue: I think one of the big things that most of the followers of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie where looking forward to the most in the third installment was the recuse of the beloved Captain Jack Sparrow that managed to catch everyone's hearts with his "good guy in a bad guy" character.
At the end of the second movie, and the beginning of the third, they build Jack's fate up to be something so unbelievably horrid that our group of beloved misfit pirates have to rush to save him quickly. But when we join Jack in his prison, its nothing as they described. He's stuck on a ship with his own imaginary crew of...himself...and a bunch of crabs in the dessert that proceed to pick up his ship and guide him right to his "saviors". It was very disappointing to wait for some big rescue only to have nothing really bad happen at all. This "big" rescue that they make you think this third movie is going to be about is very big let down and very rushed.
2. Captain Jack Sparrow: Aside from the rescue, the character of Jack Sparrow that we've grown to love is, in at least my opinion, torn apart and tossed to the wind in this movie. His normal humor is lost in a character that is now consumed with getting his own way. Even in the second movie, they were at least able to keep his normal humor there while trying to get the chest.
And not only that, as one of the characters that made the first two movies, his character was brushed aside in order to make room for more characters that really didn't need to be in the movie at all. Jack's lack of appearance in this portion of the trilogy really poses the question of what the writers and producers where thinking when they made this installment.
Also, the parts that Jack is in are brought down by the fact that he has developed what seems to be a multiple personality disorder that follows him through out the movie and is pointless. I mean, the scene in the dungeon on the Flying Dutchman where there are four of him in the same cell is just foolish and confusing. They could have easily cut these "extra" Jack's out and made room to write some of the classic Jack Sparrow humor and "cunning" that is shown in the first two movies.
And the lack of his normal humor and cunning in this movie are disappointing and leave such a well made character seem like a bumbling and self centered fool. And granted that is kind of what the character is, but at least in the first two he was given a sense of humor to make the character enjoyable. But in this movie, the lack of humor just makes his character seem dull and two dimensional. Not the same Captain Jack Sparrow that we all had come to know and love. This was a very big let down.
3. Calypso: While this character starts out with some promise, it really seems that the writers and producers got bored with her before they reached the end and they rushed her role out of the movie.
They built her character up as this all powerful goddess that was trapped inside a human form because of things that she was doing. And people keep warning others through out the movie not to release her because she would turn back on them. And she even makes a point at one time to tell Davey Jones that when she is released into her true form she will return to destroy the brethren.
But when she is finally released, she turns into a 30 ft tall woman. She stands there silently for a few minutes, and then turns into a pile of crabs and falls into the ocean. Talk about anti climatic! And her big "revenge" is a whirlpool that's only victim was Davey Jones who is killed when his heart is stabbed.
If they were going to build a character up so much they should have made her exit a little more, well, a little more ANYTHING. Because of her lack of exit and apparent importance to the plot (other then being Davey Jone's secret love) her character could have been left out and not have really done much to the plot at all. She could have just remained the freaky vodoo lady and been just as effective. This is just one of the characters that does nothing for the plot but to complicate it more with unneeded things.
4. The On Going Romance: We've all waited for the romance between Will and Elizabeth, and more so after we all see Will catching her kissing Jack. It seems that this love that was so deep in the first movie, and still strong in the second, is going to hit more in the third.
But it seems to take a backseat to some less important plot catches in the third. They continue to remain off standish and distant through out the third and continue to lie to each other. It makes you really loose hope for the couple until all of a sudden, during a big battle scene, they decide to get married. Um, what? All that fighting and all that build up to just be solved like that? How unrealistic and disappointing.
And what's worse comes next:
5. Will Turner's Fate: After finally getting married (which we've waited for for 3 movies) Will takes a turn for the worst when he's stabbed and we all believe him to be dead. Instead, Jack spares what he's wanted and has Will take Davey Jones place. How upsetting. After all this, they are resigned to one day a shore in ten years. Great. This great romance is ripped apart at the end.
6. The Flying Dutchman: Even though because of Will's becoming the new captain, the flying dutchman becomes a ship of purpose again, the "secret" scene at the end of the movie leave you to believe that after ten years, his time at sea is up and he's back. But if people paid attention to the tale of Davey Jones, they would realize that the whole point of his story is that he's been assigned to an eternity at sea with only one day on shore every ten years. It wasn't ten years and then he's free.
7. The lack of plot: A lot of the plot that the second movie sets you up for seems to be lost in the third movie, and its really a shame. They bloated the movie with so many unneeded character's that things just become pointless to me. I mean, the one character that seems to have no point other then to hold a rule book and be Jack's brother, what did he really add to the movie? Nothing. He couldn't have been cut out with no consequences.
Overall, the movie was too long and filled with much unneeded aspects. And the parts of the movie that would have made it good must have ended up on the cutting room floor because they weren't anywhere in this film.
Description of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Single-Disc Edition)
Just when he?s needed most, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), that witty and wily charmer of a pirate, is trapped on a sea of sand in Davy Jones? Locker. In an increasingly shaky alliance, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) begin a desperate quest to find and rescue him. Captain Jack?s the last of the nine Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court who must come together united in one last stand to preserve the freedom-loving pirates? way of life. From exotic Singapore, to World?s End and beyond, from Shipwreck Island, to a titanic battle, this adventure?s filled with over-the-edge action, irreverent humor and seafaring myth and magic. Everything has led to this twisting, turning, wild swashbuckling ride in this final chapter of the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogySimilar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
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