Not a movie for people with the attention span of a gnat.

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2007)

I was very satisfied with this movie and although POTC: COTBP will always remain my favorite (for sheer fun) this one is a very close second and works for me on a different level than COTBP.
Just the scenes with Geoffrey Rush & Johnny Depp made this movie worth seeing as far as I'm concerned. The two of them play their characters so well off of each other. If any more Pirates sequels are made I'll be very disappointed if Barbossa isn't back.
Unlike with COTBP, I find the final battle scenes still interesting after repeated viewings and though there are a few areas in the movie that I would have shortened, for me this movie went by very fast.
However, it really bemuses me that people had such a difficult time with this movie. Is it because people today are spoon fed everything? Is it because they no longer can use their own imaginations to fill in the blanks? Is it because some people have the attention span of a gnat?
I had no trouble understanding the movie the first time I watched it and I enjoyed it very much (unlike DMC which for me was only enjoyable in the last 40 mins.) The subsequent viewings of AWE have allowed me to enjoy many details and underlying currents. I like the fact that it doesn't have a pat Disney ending. I like the fact that it makes one discuss and think of possibilities.
"At World's End" was never meant to be a movie like, say "Transformers," so I guess people going into it expecting mindless special effects with no need to pay attention to dialogue and visual clues will never like this movie. It's their loss.