Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End Review (Classic Write-Up)

And so, we come to the end of the original Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, with At World's End closing out the four year long tale of Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan....at least until Disney decided to go back this world for the dire fourth movie. By contrast to the second movie being far worse than I remembered it being, this third entry in the saga is surprisingly much better than I remember it being, even if it still suffers from an overly convoluted structure that the second film similarly struggled with.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Review (Classic Write-Up)

Just as the excellent Marvel Cinematic Universe has spawned wannabe imitators like The Amazing Spider-Man "saga" and a Transformers universe that promises to deliver new Autobot adventures into the next decade, the massive success of The Lord Of The Rings and the Star Wars prequels at the dawn of the 21st century gave birth to the trend of studios hoping to wring "epic trilogies" out of their most popular films. Various well-liked movies began to get stretched into grand sagas to rival that of Frodo Baggins or Luke Sykwalker, the star of another well-know and profitable trilogy that provided further inspiration for this rush of creating trilogies in a post-Lord of The Rings world.