Full Houses for "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" at GSC Mahkota Parade
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Full Houses for "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" at GSC Mahkota Parade
By Chen Pelf Yeen
24 May - Even before the Pirates of the Caribbean had 'dropped anchor' at local cinemas, its fans are clamouring to get on board to catch the action.
Perhaps typical of cinemas all over the country, the entrance of the GSC Mahkota Parade in Malacca was packed with fans yesterday, queueing up to book tickets for the summer blockbuster which opens today (24 May). Two halls at the cinema were reported to be almost sold-out yesterday for the late night shows.
GSC Mahkota Parade staff Omar Abdul Aziz said he was not surprised by the huge crowd yesterday. "What I am surprised at was the fact that the release date (Thursday, 24 May) is not even a public holiday and yet the crowd is so overwhelming. Eighty per cent of the 370 seats in Hall 3 were sold out by 10.45pm," he said.
Asked about the response to their advance ticket sales, he said that it was ‘very good'. "On the first day (23 May) itself, there were already walk-in patrons who came to buy the tickets for "POTC3" and up to this moment, there are only a few tickets left and these were already reserved online. Walk-in tickets are no longer available," he added.
In the second sequel of the "Pirates" franchise, William Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) join Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) in a quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Davy Jones' locker. While they are navigating through treachery, betrayal and troubled waters, they must also forge their way to Singapore and persuade the cunning Chinese pirate Capt Sao Feng (Chow Yun-fat) to join their mission.
"Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End" is now showing in all major cinemas nationwide.
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Article published Thursday, May 24, 2007
‘Pirates’ on a darker sea
By NANCIANN CHERRY
BLADE STAFF WRITER
Fun and frustrating in nearly equal parts, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End uses a tone much darker than its predecessors in the trilogy as it ties together several story lines but leaves new questions.
The path to that resolution runs nearly three hours, filled with overly long fight scenes and introductions to lots of people in funny clothes who have no purpose other than to show us, well, lots of people in funny clothes.
There is indeed a plot, convoluted though it may be.
Basically, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), and Tia Dalma (Naomi Harris), a voodoo priestess, have set out to rescue Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), who is being held prisoner by Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), the part-man, part-sea creature who rules the ocean’s depths and strikes terror in the hearts of seamen.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Directed by Gore Verbinski; written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio.
The Walt Disney Pictures release has a sneak preview tonight in Cinemas De Lux Franklin Park and Maumee and Showcase Levis Commons; it opens tomorrow at those theaters and Fox Woodville, and Sundance Kid Drive-In and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action/adventure violence and some frightening images. Running time: 167 min.
Critic’s rating: ***
Jack Sparrow Johnny Depp
Barbossa Geoffrey Rush
Will Turner Orlando Bloom
Elizabeth Swann Keira Knightley
Lord Cutler Beckett Tom Hollander
Bootstrap Bill Stellan Skarsgard
Davy Jones Bill Nighy
Each of the rescuers has a self-serving reason for wanting Jack back, and as those reasons become apparent, the movie becomes less of a lark (dare I even say a bit serious?), although there are plenty of grins to be found.
The action starts in Singapore, where our heroes have traveled to negotiate with the pirate lord Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat) for ancient charts that presumably will lead them to Davy Jones’ Locker. If Sao Feng doesn’t want to negotiate like a reasonable man, well, there are other ways to get him to cooperate.
Sao Feng agrees, and our heroes head off to World’s End with the charts.
Meanwhile, the ambitious Lord Cutler Beckett is determined to extend the East India Trading Co.’s vast influence from Asia to the Caribbean. To do this, he must make the seas safe for trade. He cuts a deal with Sao Feng to hunt down Barbossa. He ruthlessly hangs anyone whom he suspects of having anything to do with piracy, and when they’re all gone, he forces Davy Jones and his feared ship, the Flying Dutchman, to hunt down other pirates.
Cutler, you see, is in possession of Jones’ beating heart, and if he chooses to destroy that heart, it will mean the end of Jones.
So we have Barbossa hunting Jack, Sao Feng hunting Barbossa, and Davy Jones hunting everyone.
Trust no one. Cutler, Davy Jones, and Jack are adept double-crossers, but other characters are learning quickly.
There’s plenty of fun in At World’s End, whether it’s Depp’s buffoonish prancing, Rush’s trademark “Arrgh” (sad to say, I only heard it once), or the antics of Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Crook as inept pirate buddies Pintel and Ragetti (the one who keeps losing his wooden eyeball).
Martin Klebba, left, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Naomie Harris in Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End.
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At World’s End is also packed with just about everyone who appeared in the first two episodes of the trilogy, The Curse of the Black Pearl and Dead Man’s Chest, from Jonathan Pryce as Elizabeth’s father to Stellan Skarsgard as Will’s father, from Jack Davenport as Norrington, Elizabeth’s original fiancee, to Dermot Keaney as Maccus, the hammer-headed first mate of the Flying Dutchman.
Despite everything that’s familiar, there are surprises in At World’s End, at least one of which provided a rather elegant denouement to a key plot line. (Some of the solutions aren’t viewer-friendly, but I can’t deny they work.)
Yes, it’s long (I did look at my watch at least twice, generally during a fight scene), but fans of the trilogy are bidding farewell to characters we have come to love, so a little bloat is understandable.
By the way, I’ve been told that there’s a sort of an epilogue midway through the extensive credits, but I left too early to see it.
Contact Nanciann Cherry at
ncherry@theblade.com or 419-724-6130.
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REVIEW
LOST AT SEA
'Pirates' takes on a lot of water in its 3rd voyage. Not even Keith Richards can keep this dud afloat.
Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic
Thursday, May 24, 2007
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: Adventure.
Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Keira Knightley. Directed by Gore Verbinski. (PG-13. 168 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. See complete movie listings and show times, and buy tickets for select theaters, at SFGate.com/movies.)
The competition is enormous, but with "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," a case could be made for "Pirates" as the worst film series since Thomas Edison got the wacky idea that pictures could move. "Hellraiser," the previous titleholder, looked as though it might hold onto its crown, thanks to its disgusting effects. But the makers of "Pirates" cleverly diminished that advantage with gross undead seamen and lots of rotting teeth. And now it overtakes "Hellraiser" through sheer length and by a novel new effect: The story is so convoluted and impenetrable, so impossible to grasp hold of, that viewers sit there wondering if they've had a stroke.
Cast your mind back to the first "Pirates" movie. That was a little jumbled, too, but it had the spine of a story: A nice guy, Will (Orlando Bloom), is trying to rescue his girlfriend, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), who has been kidnapped by pirates. (They love each for a good reason -- they're the only two people in the entire 18th century who brush their teeth.) Will hooks up with a pirate captain (Johnny Depp), who acts just like Keith Richards, and they have an adventure.
But "Pirates 3" has no narrative throughline, no emotional spine. It's a mess, and the troubles originated with "Pirates 2." In the last installment, in order to stretch the movie to epic length and guarantee another sequel, the filmmakers introduced new characters and new plotlines, tying themselves into a knot they could not undo by the final credits. "Pirates 3" has inherited that mess, and it's an ugly thing to watch the actors have to pick through it.
Depp as Captain Jack fares the best, because his role is essentially comic. He's never had to carry the story. But Will and Elizabeth, as characters, are destroyed. They've become a mass of multiple motivations and loyalties. Lacking consistency, they're shoehorned into any configuration that the screenwriters devise, to the extent that when we look at them, we no longer see Will and Elizabeth. We see Bloom and Knightley gamely struggling to locate a shred of authenticity in their roles. They don't find it, and it's not their fault. It's not there.
Director Gore Verbinski and his team of writers are almost naive in what they expect an audience to latch on to. At the start of the film, for example, Captain Jack is stuck on an island somewhere. He might never get off. OK, so what? The movie introduces some notion about all the pirate leaders needing to come together or else "the brethren faces extinction." Uh-huh. And what would be so bad about that? The movie's biggest emotional trump card is Will's effort to rescue his father from a death in life (or life in death) aboard a ghost ship. But the movie takes about 45 minutes to reintroduce that story line (from "Pirates 2") and it has little dramatic heft, especially when we meet Dad (Stellan Skarsgard) and see that he's been turned into a kind of monstrous barnacle.
The "Pirates" series had one slender emotional thread on which to hang its story cycle -- Will and Elizabeth's undying, undiminished, idealized romance -- and amazingly, they damaged it, miring it in ambiguity and compromise.
In terms of pure adventure, there's less of it here than in "Pirates 2" -- the action doesn't really start until about two hours in, and even then it's hard to understand the shifting allegiances or make sense of why the different sides are fighting. For most of the screen time, a sour feeling pervades. Everyone seems irritated, with the exception of Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbossa, who goes through the movie like a man smelling roses while covered in (shall we say) baser substances. His mugging is more subtle than Depp's, but in a way it's funnier, though to talk about performances is a little beside the point. Everyone is hostage to the screenplay. Everyone is on a boat that has already gone off a cliff.
Keith Richards provides the movie's only pure pleasure, with a cameo as Captain Jack's father. The rest of the movie's amusements are unintended. There's the fun, for example, of watching Naomie Harris, as Tia Dalma, make her West Indies accent thicker and thicker and thicker, until she's barely comprehensible, and how she uses the most portentous delivery for dialogue made up almost entirely of non sequiturs. Also diverting, in a sorry sort of way, is the moment in the first scene, when we discover that habeas corpus has been suspended by the evil Lord Cutler (Tom Hollander). Wait. Does that mean if we like habeas corpus, we're supposed to like "Pirates 3," too?
But best of all are Verbinski's repeated long shots of the sailing ship, accompanied invariably by a soaring men's chorus on the soundtrack. Verbinski uses the shots as bridges between scenes, designed to assure audiences that "Pirates 3" has grandeur and continuity. It has neither.
-- Advisory: This film contains violence.
E-mail Mick LaSalle at
mlasalle@sfchronicle.com.
This article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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