Who’s in it: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Chow Yun-Fat, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Tom Hollander, Jack Davenport, Keith Richards
What it’s about: Back-from-the-dead Capt. Barbossa (Rush) has led distrusting young lovers Will (Bloom) and Elizabeth (Knightley), voodoo priestess Tia Dalma (Harris) and the usual gang of slapstick sailors to Singapore. Following the first of about 50,000 double-crosses and noisy fights, it’s off to rescue Capt. Jack Sparrow (Depp) in Davy Jones’ Locker, where Jack’s been in the ultimate purgatory since getting grabbed by old squid-face’s (Nighy) monster Kraken: Stuck on a grounded Black Pearl.
After the rescue, Sparrow and Barbossa bicker over who’s really in command of the Pearl as they try to round up the world’s Pirate Lords for a showdown with the East India Company’s massive armada. The British fleet is augmented by the Flying Dutchman, since evil corporateer Lord Cutler Beckett (Hollander) now controls that heart-in-a-box that means so much to Davy Jones. And there’s more. And more and more and more.
Worth watching? ** 1/2
” ‘At World’s End’ finally jumped the shark. Or more accurately, it jumps the blue whale. Maybe a whole pod of them.”