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

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.

Director:

Gore Verbinski

Writers:

Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio,

Stars:

Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 28 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Johnny Depp	...	Jack Sparrow
Geoffrey Rush	...	Captain Hector Barbossa
Orlando Bloom	...	Will Turner
Keira Knightley	...	Elizabeth Swann
Jack Davenport	...	Norrington
Bill Nighy	...	Davy Jones
Jonathan Pryce	...	Governor Weatherby Swann
Lee Arenberg	...	Pintel
Mackenzie Crook	...	Ragetti
Kevin McNally	...	Gibbs (as Kevin R. McNally)
David Bailie	...	Cotton
Stellan Skarsgård	...	Bootstrap Bill
Tom Hollander	...	Cutler Beckett
Naomie Harris	...	Tia Dalma
Martin Klebba	...	Marty

Storyline

After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from the the land of the dead, they must face their foes, Davy Jones and Lord Cutler Beckett. Beckett, now with control of Jones' heart, forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Now, Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, to gathering. The Pirate Lords want to release the goddess Calypso, Davy Jones's damned lover, from the trap they sent her to out of fear, in which the Pirate Lords must combine the 9 pieces that bound her by ritual to undo it and release her in hopes that she will help them fight. With this, all pirates will stand together and will make their final stand for freedom against Beckett, Jones, Norrington, the Flying Dutchman, and the entire East India Trading Company.

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Plot Keywords:

pirate | goddess | sea | heart | ship | 

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Taglines:

At the End of the World, the Adventure Begins

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

Disney [dk] Disney [es]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 May 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

P.O.T.C. 3

Filming Locations:

Nipomo, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$300,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£13,412,294 (UK) (25 May 2007)

Gross:

$309,404,152 (USA) (28 September 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Second Mate Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

169 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS Cinesound (RCA Sound System)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film is the first in the series in which Capt. Barbossa's first name, Hector, is said. Interestingly, the writers did not initially plan on giving the character a first name: on the commentary for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Johnny Depp jokingly said that Barbossa's name was Hector; this comment was misinterpreted by fans to be the character's actual name, and thus left the writers to feel that they had no choice but to include it in the series.

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Goofs

Near the end of the film, just before the Endeavour is sunk by the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl, we see a shot of the Endeavour from behind. A wake can clearly be seen, suggesting the ship is driven by a diesel engine. Not even steam engines were invented in the period when this film is meant to be set, neither did sailing ships create such a visible wake, since they did not travel as fast as modern ships.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Officer: In order to affect a timely halt to deterioriating conditions, and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories by decree of Lord Cutler Beckett, duly appointed representative of His Majesty, the King. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: Right to assembly, suspended. Right to habeas corpus, suspended. Right to legal counsel, suspended. Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended. By decree, all...

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Crazy Credits

Scene appears at the end of the credits to show how two pivotal characters meet again in ten years' time.

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Connections

Featured in Welshy Reviews: Saw Retrospective: Part VI - Saw V (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Only Found Out Yesterday"
Written and Performed by Keith Richards

User Reviews

Not bad

Less than a year after the previous installment of the popular pirates trilogy, Jack Sparrow and company return in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The film should be great, given a three hundred million dollar budget, huge anticipation, and the closure a third installment inevitably brings to a series. While this film does show its budget and is quite visually arresting, it lacks a fair share of resolution to the trilogy and confuses with its overflowing exposition rather than purely existing to entertain.

Even in an action packed pirate movie, overly chatty sequences will simply bore audiences just because it's too hard to follow what exactly is being said. The movie really just had too many vague or unnecessary plot points that didn't affect the main plot at hand.

All the acting was perfectly fine, with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow and Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbosa unsurprisingly being the standouts. The introduction of Depp's character in the pirate equivalent of Hell called Davy Jones' Locker is a particular favorite, as well as the scenes at World's End, which somehow involves a giant, deep waterfall. Keith Richards' hyped cameo as Jack's father is nothing to go crazy for, he does a decent job, but his screen time lasts only about two minutes.

Director Gore Verbinski and his crew knew going into this that the reviews would be mixed and the plot would be confusing (in order to encourage repeat viewings), but honestly, at nearly three hours, the more the film confuses you the more it becomes an endurance test. Also, rather than providing a satisfying conclusion to the series, the end opens up the possibility for a fourth installment, which might not even happen. The crew put every penny of the film's budget on screen, made evident in the hour or so of its bloated climax. The film looks and feels like a true epic, shots are wide, locations are vast, costumes are extravagant, and the scope is large. However, the film needs to scale down its plot in order to let the characters we fell in love with stand out and shine, as that's what makes these films unique.