PIRATES:AT WORLD’S END-4 STARS

15. January 2008 by Ria.

This movie is definitely the year’s best, as this is the third installment of the ‘Pirate’ movies. If you remember in Dead Man’s Chest, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) sends Sparrow (Johnny Depp) straight to Davy Jones Locker (leave it to Miss Swan to do something stupid), and now she, Will, and the other pirates have to rescue him, so that Jack can complete the nine pieces with the other pirate lords in order to release the sea goddess Calypso (Naomie Harris).

Why do they need Calypso do you ask? Well Lord Cutler Beckett has control over Davy Jones’s heart, which means he can control the sea, and exterminate all the order pirates in the process, and that just cannot happen. First of all, let me start off by saying, I’m glad Verbinski (director) decided to bring back Barbossa.

Isn’t he the guy you love to hate? I also say the same for Davy Jones, I mean, c’mon, what a villain. I’m telling you, if he walked into a room, I would already have jumped out open window somewhere. Wouldn’t you be afraid if you were confronted by some ‘thing’ that had tentacles moving on its head? Now what’s a ‘Pirates’ sequel without a mini soap opera? A long time ago, Davy Jones and Calypso had a hot fling, and she designated him to transport dead souls to the next world (wow, what a job. That’s okay, I’d rather be unemployed).

As a result, Jones was allowed to come to shore once every ten years to be with her, but on his day, Calypso stood him up. Wow, that was brutal. She could of at least called if she wasn’t going to be able to make it (I’ve got your back on this one, Davy). Unfortunately, Jones despised her, abandoned his mission, and went from being a man, to becoming a cute squid-head monster.

And of course, there’s Jack Sparrow, doing silly stuff as usual. I used to call it the Jack Sparrow show, but not anymore. I like knowing that the storyline is made up of several distinct qualities and elements, and the plot doesn’t have to orbit around him.

It was nice to see Elizabeth and Will ignore each other during most of the movie. I was tired of their dumb love affair anyway. In fact, as far as I was concerned, they both were nothing but a couple of boring do-gooders that I tried so hard to ignore. I figured I’d just pay attention to Jack, and leave them out of it, but I liked the scene when they got married in the mist of all that heavy duty action going on around them.
 

I also ended up having a new-found respect for Will, especially when he got shot. I was like, “OH NO! NOT WILL! HE’S GOING TO DIE!”  Then I had the nerve to cheer when he returned with that sexy bandanna on his head. And what about Elizabeth? She still gets on my nerves. Interesting that she can hang and fight with pirates, but never seems to get roughed up like one. I wonder where she got that lipstick from. Was Revlon around back then?

You’ve got to see this movie. What do you mean you haven’t seen it? Okay, so you’re at work, and your co-workers are standing around the water cooler talking about this movie, then someone asks you, “Hey so and so, remember when Jack Sparrow did this, that, and the other……” How are you going to respond? If you reply back, “No, I haven’t seen it, sorry”, you could get snubbed, demoted, maybe even lose your job. DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!

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