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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Director: Gore Verbinski
Synopsis
Captain Jack and shipmates are back in the third (and dare we say final) Pirates installment.
Movie review
From Time Out New York
Let the phenomenon of the summer blockbuster keel over and die with this one: bloated, witless and, for most of its running time, maddeningly incomprehensible. When Disney first turned its theme-park ride into a movie (2003’s The Curse of the Black Pearl), Johnny Depp pulled off a stupendous act of subversion, dancing around the film’s elephantine action beats with his sly, androgynous saunter.Now, almost in penance, At World’s End completes the blandification initiated by last summer’s Dead Man’s Chest, turning Jack Sparrow into both a boring nonhero and a desexualized outsider who hardly gets to crack wise. Here, he must be saved from the abstract purgatory of Davy Jones’s locker; the spectacle of a deracinated Depp pulling a massive ship across the desert by rope is only too apt.
What’s left? Only the usual blustery diversions—computerized nautical explosions, slo-mo shards of flying wood, a dull-as-dirt romance between two mannequins (Bloom and Knightley) and an excess of unnecessary revenge-based plotting—deployed with a dutiful sense of obligation. Mind-bogglingly, there’s virtually no swordplay for the first two hours; when Keith Richards shows up for his soused cameo, the visual joke hangs in the air. Didn’t he once cowrite a song about satisfaction, i.e., not getting any?
Author: Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York Issue 609: May 31–June 6, 2007
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- Posted on Dec 03 2007 13:05 i would rather have my penis amputated than have to endure this film again
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- Kyra said...
- Posted on Jul 06 2007 15:53 I can't believe your saying this.. It was sooooo goood! There was loads of action in it and the story plot was amazing!
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- Joe said...
- Posted on Jun 06 2007 12:22 I did not think this was a good film.
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Cast & crew
Director: Gore Verbinski
Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgard, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, MacKenzie Crook, Kevin McNally, Naomie Harris full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Comedy
Rated: PG-13
Duration: 168 mins
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