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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Depp and Gang Return for More High-Seas Hijinks
This third installment of the Pirate trilogy, directed by Gore Verbinski, picks up where the second movie left off. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is living in Davy Jones’ locker, a sort of hallucinatory desert-wasteland-purgatory where he sees imaginary clones of himself. It’s all very sepia-toned.
Meanwhile, the plucky Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), swashbuckling Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), and resurrected Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) travel to Singapore. Their goal is to enlist the help of pirate lord Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) to help save Jack and join his fellow captains against the British, who are in control of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and his Flying Dutchman crew.
Yeah, it’s confusing, and that’s just the beginning. This movie has so many convoluted plot twists and turns, you need a storyboard to keep track of what’s happening and who’s working with whom.
Basically, everyone’s out for revenge. Will must free his father, Bootstrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) from Davy’s cursed ship; Elizabeth, still feeling guilty for cuffing Jack to the Black Pearl at the end of the second movie, now finds herself the captain of a ship; And Barbossa is leading a council of pirate lords who’ve gathered to protect their interests and jobs.
Meanwhile, the mysterious Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris) seeks to unleash her trapped sea goddess (she has a thing for sea crabs). She’s also in love with Davy Jones. Keith Richards does indeed show up, albeit briefly, as Jack’s father. You’re sort of waiting for that to happen, and then he’s on screen for, like, 30 seconds. He has a few lines, but you can only understand one of them. I wonder how many takes that took.
Davy Jones’ beating heart also plays into the storyline. It’s still in that chest they found in the second movie.
Although the freshness of the franchise died somewhere in the Kraken scene of the second movie, it’s still fun to see the dysfunctional gang again. And there’s that lingering attraction between Elizabeth and Captain Jack. Will she follow her true feelings? And what ARE her true feelings? You’ll have to see the movie to find out.
If you’re prone to motion sickness, you’ll probably have to close your eyes for much of the last 20 minutes. There’s lots of rocking-boat scenes and fast-paced fighting.
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I will firstly say that after seeing the trailer and previews for this film I had serious doubts. I was afraid that the producers would just try to cash in on the original’s success, and forget about any content.I was pleasantly proved wrong.
Posted by seo services provider on Mar 09, 2008
There was too much hype about this film, and I don’t think it delivered.
Posted by seo software on Nov 22, 2008
I had seen the trailer of this film, I was with my kids and bf, my kids got scared & shouted a lot.... So, we just OFF it and let them to go to bed, & after that had seen this, that is really cool, but kids used to get afraind, that is sad, if the director took care of it, that would be fine,
Posted by Lasik on Feb 12, 2009
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