Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
(Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End was provided to me by Click Communications for the purpose of review.)
This past summer was the summer of the threequels: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Don’t get me wrong – it was still a fairly entertaining movie. How could it not be, with Johnny Depp at his most wonderful as Jack Sparrow, and the ever-yummy Orlando Bloom. (On a side note, I just recently found out that he is 30 years old, so I can stop feeling guilty for having such a crush on him. I thought he was all of about 22. 
) But a lot of the humor that was so terrific in the first and second Pirates movies was missing. And the plotlines – my goodness, how many were there? I had to keep pausing the movie to explain to the kids what was going on, and by the last hour, I gave up because I was completely lost. Who was on which side? I have no idea.
SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS MOVIE AND DON’T WANT TO KNOW THE ENDING, PLEASE STOP READING NOW!
I certainly hope that the ending was a set-up for another movie, and that they go back to the humorous roots of the first two movies. Leaving Will as the new Davy Jones, doomed to sail the seas for all eternity, only returning to land for one day every ten years? Come on, people. We romantics want a much better ending for Will and Elizabeth than that.
So, like Santa Clause 3, this is a movie that is good to have to complete the series, but doesn’t live up to the series as a whole.
I agree, Carrie. Even my son, who was really gung-ho on the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, did not like the second or the third. He said the second one got grosser, and the third one was more confusing. He did like the action scenes. But totally didn’t get the story.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:48 amAnd like you, I was really upset at the ending. The romance was the only part of the movie for me, and they ruined it. I don’t even know if I’d want another sequel.