Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
The ‘This Movie Is Gonna Suck So Bad’ Factor
When I first heard about the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels, I’ll admit it… I was excited. The first film was everything I had hoped it would be. It was funny, it was action packed, it had absolutely incredible visual effects.
Then I saw the trailer for Dead Man’s Chest. It reminded me of another sequel, The Mummy Returns, not a good sign. It followed a certain formula, take everything that worked from the first film, and do more of it. One of the things that was so good about The Curse of the Black Pearl, and The Mummy for that matter, was how cheesy it was. Don’t get me wrong, that’s not a negative. It walked a fine line, and as a result, was awesome.
Dead Man’s Chest and The Mummy Returns decided to do away with said line. The resulting movies were so bad, that I honestly can’t even remember them.
I’d put money on the same mistake being made again with At World’s End.
The Review
Don’t get me wrong. I went into this movie expecting it to be a disappointment. There was a small glimmer of hope, but I was prepared for a bad movie. This usually is beneficial for a film, if I’m expecting crap I might be sufficed with mediocrity. To this day I can’t say whether I liked X-Men because it was a good movie or because every movie leading up to it’s release that summer was a painful disappointment.
I don’t remember the first sign that things were going horribly wrong. There were a couple. The film felt rushed and poorly thought out. I can’t really comment on how well it tied everything together, because I honestly can’t remember anything about the second film.
Johnny Deep’s first appearance in the film, I leaned over to say, “This is gonna get annoying fast.” Sure enough, a minute into Johnny Deep’s first scene, it had. While it was his performance that made the first film so enjoyable, every subsequent performance has been more and more annoying. My biggest fear of the film was that they would take something that worked from the first film and just do more. This was exactly what they did. This is not to say that his performance was all bad, he did deliver some of the films best lines, few and far between as they were.
I’m not one to give anything away, and maybe it’s just because I’m down on love and the entire concept of marriage, but the love story just had to go. I don’t feel it added anything except for a few more subplots that I just didn’t care about. I guess the biggest problem is that the only reason I was rooting for anyone was because I knew who I was supposed to be rooting for. None of the characters had admirable traits, and I couldn’t careless who “won”.
Not to say too many bad things about the film, I will say the visual effects were good. But this hardly makes up for it’s poor execution in every other aspect of the film.
The Consensus
It’s things like Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End that make me happy that I have Morbid Mental Degeneration. Because it makes it possible for me to watch the first film and say, “Thank God they never made a sequel…”
