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List Price: $34.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Pictures
Salesrank: 4569
Released: December 4, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 4-DEC-2007
Media Type: DVD
Description of Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Two-Disc Collector's Edition):
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a rollicking voyage in the same spirit of the two earlier Pirates films, yet far darker in spots (and nearly three hours to boot). The action, largely revolving around a pirate alliance against the ruthless East India Trading Company, doesn't disappoint, though the violence is probably too harsh for young children. Through it all, the plucky cast (Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush) are buffeted by battle, maelstroms, betrayal, treachery, a ferocious Caribbean weather goddess, and that gnarly voyage back from the world's end--but with their wit intact. As always, Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow tosses off great lines ; he chastises "a woman scorned, like which hell hath no fury than!" He insults an opponent with a string of epithets, ending in "yeasty codpiece."!
In the previous The Curse of the Black Pearl, Sparrow was killed--sent to Davy Jones' Locker. In the opening scenes, the viewer sees that death has not been kind to Sparrow--but that's not to say he hasn't found endless ways to amuse himself, cavorting with dozens of hallucinated versions of himself on the deck of the Black Pearl. But Sparrow is needed in this world, so a daring rescue brings him back. Keith Richards' much ballyhooed appearance as Jack's dad is little more than a cameo, though he does play a wistful guitar. But the action, as always, is more than satisfying, held together by Depp, who, outsmarting the far-better-armed British yet again, causes a bewigged commander to muse: "Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?" As far as fans are concerned, it matters not. --A.T. Hurley
On the DVD
Here's something you can't say about just any DVD extras: There appears to be more of Keith Richards in the outtakes, interviews, and other special features on the At World's End disc than in the actual film. For those scenes alone, this special edition is well worth the price. Richards looks as woozy and gamey as all the rumors suggested, and answers questions he's not asked, with Johnny Depp sitting next to him, almost acting as a translator. Richards offers pithy comments like, "Everything I do is original, you better believe," and smiles when other cast members call him "Two-Take Richards" for supposedly nailing his scenes.
The packed second disc also includes a terrific mini-doc on how the filmmakers created the famous maelstrom, in an enormous hanger in Palmdale, California, with the ships floating 30 feet off the ground. "Just moving the Black Pearl was an enormous undertaking," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer with serious understatement. Other cool extras include "Tale of the Many Jacks," deleted scenes with great commentary, "The World of Chow Yun-Fat," a bio of composer Hans Zimmer, features on the set designers, a look at the impressive Brethren Court, and some hilarious bloopers. "You can't curse in a Disney film," deadpans Depp when a costar blurts out something blue. "See? I told him." The extras are truly as much of a rollicking adventure as the film. --A.T. Hurley
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Stills from Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (click for larger image) Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Dying is the day worth living for! 
2009-11-11 - Complex and dark, as an independent film this is an obvious failure on too many levels to enumerate. Yet as the third part of a tryptich, this is a stunning visual and narrative achievement.
The visual effects -- the "visual achievement" part -- have obviously profited from the technological developments of the years following the first film. There is eye candy galore here and for silly folks like me who love watching things blow up in spectacular and impossible ways, there simply is not enough icy coke and popcorn in the world to ever get tired of watching this multi-layered spectacle.
But the story-telling -- the "narrative achievement" -- is the real jaw dropper. Now, granted, this will not qualify as your over the top, academically significant, shrieking franco-european existential angst driven piece of "important" film making. But there is some very real story telling going on here that (a) takes it for granted that the audience is not stupid (which was a real problem for some movie critics when this was first released into theatres) (b) and as a result, unapologetically spins out multiply interlaced lines of story that collide, interfere, reflect and refract with one another. So confident are the story-tellers that they stampede over our expectations at the end, and do so with such meticulous and merciless care that it works in a way that could not have worked otherwise.
Oh, and as with the first movie in particular, do be sure to stick it out until the end of the credits for the "Easter Egg".
A truly awful film; complete waste of time 
2009-11-08 - This is a dreadful film, even worse than the second installment, which was a big letdown after the first sparkling version. It is overly long, boring, slow moving despite the action, and a messy plot there is no point in trying to summarize. Given the Disney pedigree I can imagine kids squirming incessantly to this turkey. Here they've taken every sort of sea legend from the Flying Dutchman (without a Dutchman) to Davy Jones in a multicultural stew that doesn't see much of the Caribbean, but from Singapore to the Arctic in a convoluted mess. You have the frequent slaughter of British sailors and soldiers and the girl gets elected "king" of the pirates in a thoroughly ridiculous role. There's too little of Johnny Depp to save this picture. Gone is the wit and humor of the first movie. Worse, the spookiness and magic is totally absent as the Davy Jones crew becomes routinized into surface creatures engaged in ordinary battle. It says something that the best performer in the movie is a monkey. I hope this is mercifully the end to what began with a very charming film.
Terrible 3rd part to a great story.
2009-11-08 - This movie was awful. I loved the first two movies, even though number two had it's faults, it was ultimately enjoyable. This movie, on the other hand was just bad. Stupid plot devices, plot holes galore, bad dialogue, WAYYYY too much cgi, and a sucky ending for all the characters. I saw it once in the theaters and haven't had the stomach to endure it again, even though It's been on cable several times.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN -AT WORLDS END DVD
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It was okay 
2009-11-04 - This movie was an alright movie. I think it was a little too long, they could have shortened it & it would have been much better.
