Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

I'm Hooked Captain.. this is another 'Pirates' to treasure..

Though this is a long voyage (at 168 minutes !) in many ways 'Worlds End' is even more immense and pleasurable than 1 and 2, the humour and story plot (ably aided by our home talent of McKenzie Crook, Kevin Mcnally, Keira Knightly.. etc etc) is superb.

Without spoiling anything, the lords of the Pirates from the four corners of the globe must put their internal squabbles and infighting on the back burner (not apparently an easy task !) to collect together to fight off the dominance of the East India Trading companies grip on the high seas, and their popular (ha !) member Jack Sparrow must (to their dismay) be rescued from the grip of the Kraken to aid them in their endeavour.

For our family this isn't just a film... it's an event... and we were thoroughly and absolutely absorbed by this. It is fantastic, entirely what cinema is about and shouldn't be missed by anyone young or old.

A most definate recommendation !!

Disapointing

A film that really felt like the writers had just given up and would write anything to tie up loose ends, but, actually just made the story over complicated and uninteresting. I loved seeing the first rate ships in the film, they looked really nice on screen and were done well, yet they completely spoiled it by not even showing even one firing its full broadside. Why at the end did the entire east india company (the idea that they would have had an armarda of rated ships is just nonsense) with their huge fleet just turn around and run off because they lost one ship (which was another joke in itself, which could never happen). The worst ending to a film that I have seen in a long time. Again, it was lazy writing. They had an oppertunity to make something on screen in parallel to trafalgar on a bigger scale that had never been attempted on film before and possibly have one of cinemas greatest sceens, They certainly had the time at 3 hours long. Instead they opted for biggest load of rubbish since Gigli.

I guess maybe I'm asking to much of a high budget hollywood kids film. I was foolish to expect this film to at least cater to people with IQs above 70 not just children. The ignorance shown for the era they were in was unbelieveable. Only the part with depp in the desert and the way the ship of the lines looked on screen get it a 1 star. Otherwise it would have got a zero.

Maybe if I'd watched it with my neice I wouldn't be so bitter.