First Reviews of POTC: At World's End
wrote:...and it looks like it's the worst-reviewed film of the trilogy.
On Rotten Tomatoes, it's 50% fresh (out of 24 reviews).
-"Producer Jerry Bruckheimer does deserve a shoutout: It takes a kind of genius to sucker audiences into repeatedly buying the same party tricks. Know what? There really is no legit way to review Pirates 3. It's not a movie at all, it's a business proposition." - Rolling Stone
-Interminable, with more plot lines than pirates, At World's End is a mix of theatrical bravura, magical special effects and tedium. Clocking in at 168 minutes, Gore Verbinski's third film based on Disney's spectacular Pirates of the Caribbean theme ride is blatantly self-indulgent as a muddle of 15 stories swirl together like an impressive whirlwind whipping up flashes of brilliance amid the chaos. The film is a bit like a journey on ...-Louise Keller
-"But even if I wanted to spoil things, I couldn't. This movie is too darned hard to follow. There's so much stuff happening, sometimes all at once, that it's hard to keep track of who's on whose ship, who's selling out whom and even who's getting killed, where and how. And it won't matter whether you've seen the first two "Pirates" movies or not. You'll still be confused." - Newsday
-"Of all movies, this is the last youd expect to talk and talk and talk and talk, but on it goes, everybody yapping about what they just did, what theyre about to do, what they should be doing, what it will mean if they do X instead of Y. Dude, just Flooping 'ecking do it." - Village Voice
--"Keith Richards totally rocks it playing pirate daddy to Johnny Depp's Capt. Jack Sparrow. - Rolling Stone
-"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. At World's End doesn't blend the humor and the derring-do as well as its predecessors. For the most part, the jokes are lazier and Cap'n Jack has lost some of his zing. - Reel Views
-"At one point, when a character asks of Depp's loopy Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Do you think he plans it out or just makes it up as he goes along?," it's hard not to wonder if Verbinski and his writing collaborators, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, aren't slipping in a sly comment about the film itself." -Variety
-"Interminable, with more plot lines than pirates, this is a mix of theatrical bravura, magical special effects and tedium... a journey on a tempestuous ocean with mountainous highs and fathomless lows. I was confused, enthralled, dazzled and bored." -Urban Cinefile
-"Its almost beside the point to ask if the movies any good.It isnt, by the way. Visually astonishing, yet also pointlessly convoluted and at least an hour too long, the 168-minute Pirates is an exhausting experiencesuch a tangled thicket of overwritten, labyrinthine, made-up mythology, backstabbing betrayals and mixed motivations that a massive chunk of the running time is devoted to characters standing around on boats, trying like hell to explain the plot to one another." - Philadelphia Weekly
p.s. I'm boycotting this movie if anybody would like to join me.
