Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Critic Reviews

You can bet your parrot "Pirates" will be back, even if "At World's End" hasn't the foggiest idea when to quit.Read the full review

Knightley's Elizabeth becomes a pirate captain this time. You know a franchise has run its course when it has a buccaneer heroine who looks as if she'd hate to get her face smudged.Read the full review

Exciting, distracting and quite possibly permanently concentration impairing, what Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End offers is a wonderfully scenic medley of impressive action sequences so lengthy, elaborate and numerous that remembering what came before becomes a kind of test of mental focus.Read the full review

The last 60 minutes offer adventure as rousing as anything provided in either of the previous installments. Unfortunately, that doesn't account for the other 108 minutes of this gorged, self-indulgent, and uneven production.Read the full review

The good news first: Keith Richards totally rocks it playing pirate daddy to Johnny Depp's Capt. Jack Sparrow. The deep rumble of his voice and those hooded eyes that narrowly open like the creaky gates of hell make him what the rest of this three-peat is not: authentically scary...So what's the bad news? Richards is onscreen for barely two minutes.Read the full review

Has no narrative throughline, no emotional spine. It's a mess.Read the full review

Like all abstract art, At World's End is best approached non-narratively, as an experience rather than a story.Read the full review

More than ever, Depp masterfully keeps the enterprise afloat, even when the sheer weight of all those other characters threatens to throw it off-course.Read the full review

The cannibals, coconuts and landlocked locations have been replaced by the high-seas high jinks that made the first film so enjoyable.Read the full review