disappointment

Rating: 7/10 (25 May 2007)

At World's End was an astounding disappointment.
2 1/2 hours into the movie and I was deciding whether I should fall asleep or just leave. There was hardly any substance and it's only redeeming moments were the last twenty minutes of the movie. There are tons of pointless scenes and fights. After awhile I was getting ready to pull my hair out from boredom. The movie lost the weight of the first movie, nothing seemed as dire as it had in the first.
*spoiler alert* More than one character cheats death, making it seem as death is nothing which in turn makes us, the viewers, care less for the people who could die. Funny scenes are great in any movie, and even though they made me laugh, at world's end had so many it didn't even feel like a drama anymore just a funny, pointless action movie, making it hokey/fruity, something Disney is good at(animated films excluded). The movie could have easily been two hours instead of three by cutting out all the ridiculous battles. The part that annoyed me the most is that it wasn't really a movie within itself, it was just a continuation of the second, they could have just combined the second and third movie which would have made it a lot better.
*spoiler Alert* Jack's multiple personalities were random and over the top, we already know Jack is pretty crazy, we don't need to see him talk to himself for forty minutes of the movie. Also Calypso turning into a giant, dissolving into crabs then having a whirlpool created..what the heck, you'd think they would have more of a purpose for her. The only reason I give it a 7/10 is for the special effects, the fact that it still shows what happens to the characters we all know and love, and the numerous funny moments, even though there were too many, they were still funny.
Not worth seeing at the movies though, wait until the DVD is my advice.