More than ever, Depp masterfully keeps the enterprise afloat, even when the sheer weight of all those other characters threatens to throw it off-course. His otherworldly confinement in Davy Jones Locker gives way to absurdist flights of fancy that suggest a meeting of the minds of Chuck Jones, Tim Burton and Salvador Dali, and bring something novel to the “Pirates” table. It all feels more than a tad overstuffed, as if director Gore Verbinski, along with writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, shared with “Spider-Man” franchise director Sam Raimi the need to cram everything in here, in the event that this would be his last time calling the shots whether or not the movies would continue.īut while it still lacks the giddy zip of “Curse of the Black Pearl,” the new edition delivers its share of entertaining sequences, especially wherever Depp is concerned. The only problem is, one of those Lords, Jack Sparrow, is still trapped in Davy Jones’ Locker, and, in order to get to him, Turner, Swann and company must first make a stop in Singapore to secure a ship and some handy maps from formidable Chinese pirate Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat).Īnd with everybody having their own personal agendas, the voyage turns into one big crazy game of Who Do You Trust? In other words, “At World’s End,” which hits in this end of the world Thursday night, shouldn’t have any problems beating its previous openings, though that expansive running time could take a nip out of its record-breaking potential.Ĭutting to the chase, “World’s End” finds Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush, who only made a brief appearance at the end of “Dead Man’s Chest”) setting sail on a quest to gather together the Nine Lords of the Brethren Court in a bid to defeat the pirate-hating Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Admiral Norrington (Jack Davenport). So they’ll likely overlook the fact that it still takes an awfully long time (two hours and 47 minutes) getting to where it needs to go and you could make yourself seasick trying to untangle all those confusing plot lines (at least 15, according to our count).
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