Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

aka: Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Adventure / Action / Comedy / Fantasy

2 hrs. 47 min.

Allegedly the third and final chapter in the swashbuckling Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action/adventure violence and some frightening images

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgard, Geoffrey Rush

Theatrical Release Date: 5/25/2007

Release Type: Wide

U.S. Box Office: $309,404,152

Video/DVD Release Date: 12/04/2007

Distributor: Buena Vista

Country: USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper	7	Clocking in at 170 minutes, this is one long, convoluted and intermittently inexplicable pirate epic -- but it's worth seeing for the jaw-dropping action, the doses of irreverent humor and of course the star power...
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington	8	The movie, extravagant, amusing and exciting, may be only a ride, but it's a ride that dazzles.
E! Dezhda Mountz	6	War and Peace should clock in at over two hours; a pirate movie featuring wacky men in eyeliner? Ninety minutes, max.
filmcritic.com Chris Barsanti	6	fully embraces its ludicrous sense of summer season overkill without succumbing to the bloated tedium that afflicted its disappointing predecessor Dead Man's Chest.
New York Post Lou Lumenick	5	It's not a total shipwreck, but abandon hope all ye seeking a coherent, much less satisfying, narrative. Expect instead a reported $300 million worth of eye candy, delivered with enormous technical skill.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	6	Minute-per-dollar, you get your money's worth, but an hour after you leave you'd be hard put to summarize the plot in any coherent way. If that's entertainment, then step right up!
Reel Tim Knight	6	...too often ... the unnecessarily convoluted and confusing storyline keeps Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End idling in the cinematic equivalent of the doldrums.
Slant Magazine Nick Schager	3	...an empty vessel of a Hollywood blockbuster franchise.
Rolling Stone Peter Travers	5	...nearly three hours of punishing exposition, endless blather (pirates take meetings -- who knew?), an overload of digital effects and shameless setups for Pirates 4.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	5	...so frantic and dissociated that it barely pretends to make sense.
New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis	7
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano	5	...long on spectacle, short on sense...
People Leah Rozen	5	...a once-magical franchise's tepid third entry.
LA Weekly Nathan Lee	3	Give 'em what they want has never been so literal, to such diminishing returns.
Village Voice Nathan Lee	3	...blows...
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	4	...stands as a lesson in the perils in blockbuster filmmaking: What started out as a fleet one-off swashbuckler with novel supernatural elements has become loaded and graceless...
Maxim Pete Hammond	8	...a grand, sweeping adventure that defines why movies were invented in the first place.
Premiere Ethan Alter	5	...170 minutes later, you'll likely stumble out of the theater in a Dolby-induced haze, eardrums shattered from the relentless booming of the soundtrack and head swimming from the haphazardly structured narrative.
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer	6	If there is to be another sequel it will have to be called Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	5.4
AVERAGE USER RATING (12 ratings)	3.3

USER REVIEWS:

Oracle 2

What a stunning piece of **** this movie (even a movie?) is. Best of all, director Gore Verbinski has said it to be the last collaboration of the Pirates franchise. This one's title is At World's End. Really? At World's End? Boy do I wish it were At World's End. The truth is that, as you can already pretty much see, most of the film's scenes are lewd setups for the fourth one. At World's End? Guess again, cause this one is a shipwreck!

Bereft of any cinematic talent on (and off) the screen, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the first film of the year - sorry Spidey - to truly blow. Then there is a huge fight scene; then another one; then another one; then it's over!

The ditsy acting is, more than anything, hilarious: watch as Swann gives a speech right before the huge fight; go Swann! Go! The rest, more than anything, are superficial, something that resembles much of the film itself. At a running time of 168 minutes, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is an atrocious horror. Intangible CG can't save this one, and who even cares? Why do we even need this? In the words of the wise Jack Sparrow himself: "Oh no! That's an abomination!" You bet Jack, you bet.

-Oracle

dack 2

Awful. Proves that without a story, all the expensive sets, cast, and CGI don't amount to Jack Squat. Without exception, the jokes and physical comedy fall painfully flat. The only thing that doesn't totally suck is Keira Knightley, who's stunning. Even my 5-year-old son called the final scene a setup for Pirates 4, which would be a tragedy. Arrrrrgh. Amazing how far the franchise has fallen from Pirates I, which was actually pretty good.

renecalvo 9

A two and a half hour acid trip. Gore Verbinski weaves a psychedelic payoff for parts one and two of the Pirates Franchise. Stunning.

ppast12 0

This movie was the most aweful movie of the summer season. It was long, and without a plot that could stick one subject. It was almost like two different movies fused together. Some scenes were so absurd that I was tempted to throw my popcorn at the screen. The ending was the worst. Like he was really going to end the trilogy. He set us up for the fourth one with no shame. The acting gets cheesier as the "trilogy" goes on. Overall this was a waste of Disney's money.

lmbradshaw 3

Yuck. An icky, confusing, tedious movie.

chunkbot 1

I am so glad I didn't have to pay when I saw this movie.

thijsmoens 2

horrible... They better stopped filming with the first one.