This week @ the Byrd: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
photo credit: Jake Lyell The inside of Captain Jack Sparrow’s brain is a marvellous thing: richly detailed, over the top, and full to the brim with nonsense. Disney’s new Pirates of the Caribbean installment, At World’s End, occasionally opens a tiny window into the character whose massive popularity was brought about, and let’s give credit where it’s […]
photo credit:
Jake Lyell
The inside of Captain Jack Sparrow’s brain is a marvellous thing: richly detailed, over the top, and full to the brim with nonsense. Disney’s new Pirates of the Caribbean installment, At World’s End, occasionally opens a tiny window into the character whose massive popularity was brought about, and let’s give credit where it’s due here, by Johnny Depp, my praise of whom has been contained in a footnote, so as not to bore those of you who are not interested.* Luckily for Disney, Captain Sparrow’s dramatic death at the end of the second film is reversible, and his lovable gang of dentally-challenged pirates joins up with their erstwhile foes from the first film (you know, the ones that turned into comical skeletons in the moonlight?) to challenge the British Armada, under the employ of which struggles Davy Jones and the slimy crew of the Flying Dutchman, which also contains Will Turner’s doomed father. You think that sentence was confusing? Print it out, cut out all of the nouns, scatter them to the winds, lead a lovable gang of dentally-challenged pirates on a mission to retrieve them, tape them together, douse it with rum, light it on fire, and shoot it out of a cannon. Tadow! You’ve just achieved the same effect as a screening of At World’s End! (more…)
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