DVD Review - “Pirates Of The Carribean 3: At Worlds End”
GRADE: D
Well, it was bound to happen folks! The “Pirates” franchise came and went, and in the aftermath we still only got one great movie out of the three that Disney released. The first “Pirates” movie was a random fluke that no one could see coming. Watching Johnny Depp flesh out a new character with such imagination and precise acting was a treat for family audiences. When both sequels were released they failed to capture the same magic as the first film creatively but they both managed to break box office records and rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.
The storyline of “Pirates 3″ is all over the place. We have to wait at least 30 minutes into the film before we get to even see Jack Sparrow. At almost three hours the drawn out plot gets lost under the weight of the movies own ego. There is a scene with Jack in limbo that is like “Pirates” on acid and it has no real significance to the plot at all, it just fills time. Even Kiera Knightly and Orlando Bloom look as if they are just on screen to pick up a hefty pay check. You can tell none of the actors have their hearts in the project anymore, they just got through the motions.
The second “Pirates” movie was too long, to convoluted and just a loud bloated mess. The only redeeming quality from that film was the state of the art special effects that were used on Davey Jones and his crew. The third film doesn’t even offer up any new images or eye popping visuals, it just regurgitates the same schlocky pirate dialog and dark set pieces that were used in the last two pictures. Not even the costumes could hold up to the first film, as we watch “Pirates 3″ we can’t help but feel that some aspects from all three films have been recycled.
When the first film was released people had their doubts that a ride at a theme park could sustain a film’s plot. Of course were wrong when it was released, but all of our worries came true in the last two installments. “Pirates 2 & 3″ just do not compare to the genius and the fresh feeling that the original movie had. It is a shame that this trilogy wasn’t fleshed out correctly. If the characters and plot were in better screen writer’s hands then maybe we could have had a truly special trilogy for the history books. As it stands the first film is the only one worth watching.
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