DotTheEyes
Movie Fan
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The story of buffoonish, courageous, and golden-toothed Captain Jack Sparrow concludes and, in many ways, comes full circle in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
The film, directed by Gore Verbinski, is without a doubt excessive... the decadent result of an enormous budget and a marathon shoot in the Bahamas and other locations around the globe.
The sheer unwieldiness of the film's production is often reflected in the storytelling. The viewer needs at least ten hands to count the number of double crosses among the characters and plot twists and turns.
Also, a refresher course on franchise history is recommended, since the film assumes each viewer is completely up-to-date on where the characters and story left off in the last installment. It spends zero time explaining such before jumping into new, labyrinthine territory.
Perhaps the best adjective to describe much of this film is scattershot. A relentless, three-hour assault on the mind and senses.
Yet, the piling of over-the-top spectacle on over-the-top story is also the film's saving grace. It reaches never-before-seen plateaus of inspired wildness.
The action and adventure, such as a hundred-ship battle in a whirlpool of extraordinary size and violence, is mind-blowing... an explosion of top-notch stunts and visual effects.
The comedy is also effective and features delightful moments of whimsy and absurdity, such as scenes where Sparrow's batsh*t-crazy conscious is reprsented by argumentative doppelgangers.
And, of course, the acting continues to be terrific almost across-the-board with the standout being, as always, Johnny Depp.
Overall, it's easy to see this film isn't flawless. The concept of economical storytelling is nowhere to be found. But it's also incredibly hard to resist, simply because it's made by talented men and women out to push the audience into areas of entertainment and spectacle rarely seen at the movie theatre. And because of this, I loved and recommend it.
The story of buffoonish, courageous, and golden-toothed Captain Jack Sparrow concludes and, in many ways, comes full circle in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
The film, directed by Gore Verbinski, is without a doubt excessive... the decadent result of an enormous budget and a marathon shoot in the Bahamas and other locations around the globe.
The sheer unwieldiness of the film's production is often reflected in the storytelling. The viewer needs at least ten hands to count the number of double crosses among the characters and plot twists and turns.
Also, a refresher course on franchise history is recommended, since the film assumes each viewer is completely up-to-date on where the characters and story left off in the last installment. It spends zero time explaining such before jumping into new, labyrinthine territory.
Perhaps the best adjective to describe much of this film is scattershot. A relentless, three-hour assault on the mind and senses.
Yet, the piling of over-the-top spectacle on over-the-top story is also the film's saving grace. It reaches never-before-seen plateaus of inspired wildness.
The action and adventure, such as a hundred-ship battle in a whirlpool of extraordinary size and violence, is mind-blowing... an explosion of top-notch stunts and visual effects.
The comedy is also effective and features delightful moments of whimsy and absurdity, such as scenes where Sparrow's batsh*t-crazy conscious is reprsented by argumentative doppelgangers.
And, of course, the acting continues to be terrific almost across-the-board with the standout being, as always, Johnny Depp.
Overall, it's easy to see this film isn't flawless. The concept of economical storytelling is nowhere to be found. But it's also incredibly hard to resist, simply because it's made by talented men and women out to push the audience into areas of entertainment and spectacle rarely seen at the movie theatre. And because of this, I loved and recommend it.
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) and the sky flashes green. The Flying Dutchman, the late Davy Jones' ship, then appears from under the water. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) is on it and smiles at his family. The end. 
