Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End Reviews

If you can make sense of it, you're a smarter person than I am.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

The finale ends up going on so long that by the time the 'important' events occur at the end I couldn't find it within myself to care anymore. I had been swashed, buckled and CGIed into apathy.

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

The tragedy is, the last two films are exactly what we feared the first one would be: corporate entertainment, heavy yet frivolous, trying to buy our love with bloated spectacle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

As Captain Sparrow himself observes: "The immaterial has become.....immaterial."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10

The thrilling final hour is almost enough to make one forget how much of a labor it is to trudge through the first two-thirds -- almost, but not quite.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The overloaded sequel exhausts without ever satisfying. Cluttered and clattering, busy with jokes that never bob to the surface of funny, it puts the 'oy!' in ships ahoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A ponderous pirate saga, 168 minutes long, with more doldrums than 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.'

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Confusing double-crosses and half-hearted stabs at comic rigmarole leave the viewer of 'At World's End' in the doldrums.

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Roger wouldn't be so jolly if he had to sit through Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, a tiresome, disorienting walk down a 165-minute-long plank.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

A tedious, overwrought and bloated outing that up until the 100-minute mark makes you wish the movie theater had life boats.

Full Review | Original Score: D

Another piddling blockbuster with delusions of 'darkness'

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Given its origins as a theme park ride, it's apt that Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy has experienced a trajectory not unlike that of a rollercoaster: an initial high, followed by repeated plummets to nauseating lows.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

The longest, darkest, most surreal and sadly weakest entry in the series. The second film, for all its problems, had more fun and energy

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Both sequels to the original film are confusing and long. But the third does improve on the second, because at least something happens.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

PC1's Jack Sparrow has left the franchise. A stiff pod has replaced him. No story I could follow, but that was my fault. I don't understand Aramaic.

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'Betrayal'... is the most apt word for At World's End. Betrayal of purpose, and of promise, and of the grand, glorious finale that everyone wanted so dearly to see.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Perhaps on Jack's next adventure he could sail to the end of the world to locate a more judicious editor.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

The story is either incoherent or nonexistent (take your pick)...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Personally, I'd rather go on the Disneyland ride than to have to suffer through the two sequels ever again. Although the ride has now been changed to include multiple Jack Sparrows, so there's simply no escaping the film.

While it fails in matching the unpredictable excitement of the original, this is more of what I'd want in Pirates sequels. Just a little less of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10