anolinde | Review #070: Pirates of the Caribbean

FORMAT: Movie
TITLE: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
ACTORS: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

Note: Yeah, um, major spoilers here.

01. The beginning scene? OMG, sheer brilliance. I loved it. It totally set the mood for the rest of the movie. The singing was amazing. Yes, unrealistic, but wow, so good.

02. Will. Tied up. Wet. Need I say more?

03. Ugh, I can't stand Tia Dalma. I hate her accent, and she can't even speak proper English, so it throws everything off even more so. I could deal with the incorrect grammar, but when she throws in the "you-sah have-ah a-ah destineeeeeee" thing, I can't follow what she's doing. This is a problem, because she tends to have the lines that explain what's going on with the plot.

04. The Singapore scene was so cool! How awesome is that monkey? Yeah, pretty awesome. I wish I had a pet that could blow up a major city.

Btw, LOL at Pintel and Raggetti sneaking looks up Elizabeth's dress.

05. It's kind of frightening to get a glimpse inside Jack's mind... I wonder if this has been happening throughout the other two movies?

06. Poor Davy Jones! I never thought I'd say this, but he looked so sad and helpless when Beckett mentioned ordering him to kill his pet Kraken. =(

07. The scenery of the Black Pearl's trip to rescue Jack was so gorgeous! I loved that ice tunnel they went through, it was amazing. Haha, and then to see them rescue Jack and having him argue with Barbossa about the running of the ship... haha, the telescope battle was amusing.

08. Aw, Governor Swann dying... and double aw for Will comforting her. They make such a cute couple. But wow, that one moment where Will almost went wife-beater on her... a little bit intense for Disney, don't you think? :P

09. Poor Norrington. It was so cute how he was going to turn to the pirate's side in the end... and he finally got to kiss Elizabeth! Stupid Bootstrap Bill. >___<

10. Omg, I loved the line Gibbs had where they were talking about the nine pieces of eight... "It ended up being nine pieces of whatever we happened to have in our pockets at the time." LOL, brilliance. That entire scene was really neat. I liked seeing the different pirate lords. Keith Richards was kind of a random performance. The news talked about it so much that I thought he was going to have a lot more to do with the plot than he actually did. (Speaking of which, what was up with Sao Feng?) I didn't really mind that, though--considering there were way more important things to talk about.

11. The parlay scene was awesome. They did some great filming here; there was something so cool about Barbossa, Elizabeth, and Jack squaring off against Davy Jones, Beckett, and Will.

12. I thought it was neat how they tied Tia Dalma's earlier fascination with the crabs to how she transformed into a bazillion of the creatures, but I'm not entirely sure what exactly happened to her after the battle against Davy Jones. Did she go down and join him or something?

13. That was a pretty intense whirlpool. The fighting was good, and the marriage between Will and Elizabeth was hilarious. Will's death was probably some of the best acting that the group has ever done. Elizabeth, who normally looks at someone like she's mentally having sex with them, actually came across as genuine when she was crying for her husband. Bootstrap Bill was also on, and I loved how even Jack was upset that he had died.

14. OH. MY. GOD. ORLANDO BLOOM. BANDANA. ISFKLSJFKLDSGKLDJGKLDLKGJDKLGJDKLGJDKL. MAJOR PROPS TO THE WARDROBE DEPARTMENT.

*dies happy*

15. So, here's my interpretation of the whole Will/Davy Jones thing, and I'd like to know if I'm wrong or not. Basically, what I perceived to be the case was that Will was doomed to serve for ten years with his newly un-fish-ified crew. However, at the end of the ten years, as long as Elizabeth met up with him at the appointed time he would be able to pass on the leadership to someone else. I really hope I'm right, because otherwise the alternative ending

elven_pirate_22 proposed (where he only gets to come ashore every ten years for the rest of his life) is so unhappy. =(

16. Beckett's death was pretty cool. But would someone tell me why the government, outnumbering the pirates by fifty to one or whatever, suddenly decided to give up just because their leader died? Wasn't there someone on another ship who had the capacity to give orders in the event that something happened to Beckett? They could have sailed right at the pirates, opened fire, and killed them all, but they didn't.

17. Wow, that scene with Will and Elizabeth on the beach... again, Disney was pushing quite the envelope there. For a moment, I actually thought Will was performing oral sex on Elizabeth. Did anyone else's mind fly down the gutter like that?

18. The only real problem I had with this movie was that Barbossa outsmarted Jack and got the Pearl for himself, but I suppose that's just a matter of preference. I liked how Jack outsmarted him back and took the map, which might have been supposed to imply that the crew decided to go look for him when they discovered that Barbossa didn't know what he was doing.

19. I loved the clip at the end of the credits. Their kid is kind of ugly, but I'm glad Will and Elizabeth finally got to be reunited. It would have been nice to find out what the others were doing (i.e. show a montage or something, with Will and Elizabeth at the end), yet this was good enough and it brought some closure to the story of their relationship.

20. Overall, this movie kicked Dead Man's Chest's ass and came pretty close to doing so to Curse of the Black Pearl. The only thing I would have to say that the first movie did better was wrapping up everything and giving Jack the Pearl. Other than that, there was such amazing action in At World's End that it literally blew everything else out of the water. (Not to mention, Orlando Bloom in a bandana? So, so, so, so hot!) I can't wait to see this movie again.