PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END

I being a fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean series went to see AT WORLD’S END, the third movie in Walt Disney’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN trilogy. This epic finds Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann allied with Captain Barbossa in a quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow from the underworld of Davy Jones’ locker. They confront the Chinese pirate Sao Feng, who has the map that will lead them to Jack. Meanwhile, the evil Lord Beckett has taken over the East India Trading Company. Having retrieved the heart of Davy Jones in the second movie, Lord Beckett now controls Davy Jones and his ship the Flying Dutchman. Using them, Beckett captures and hangs every man, woman and child who refuses to submit to his absolute control over the high seas. Eventually, each character must choose a side in a final, titanic battle.

Like the second movie, AT WORLD’S END is determined to give audiences their money’s worth. And in my opinion it does, especially in the gigantic action piece at the end, which ties the loose ends together in a Christian allegory of sacrifice and redemption. Although the movie’s Christian metaphors are clear, the movie also includes references to paganism and piracy, but these negative elements are ultimately handled delicately. Although I found the movie interesting, I thought that at times it dragged and left characters and plots underdeveloped. Anyways for us fans it was an O.K. movie and if you got three hours to kill go see it. I give it three stars.