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Issue Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Issue: Volume CI Issue IX Last Update: Tuesday, May 07, 2013
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In “Pirates of the Caribbean At World’s End”, the total genocide of all pirates has been ordered by Lord Cutler Beckett from the powerful East India Company. The third movie of the Pirate trilogy opens on a dismal cloudy day with accused pirates lined up, ready to be hung.

As a young boy waits for the noose to be lowered, he begins to sing a pirate hymn. His song is heard by former pirate captain Barbossa of the Black Pearl, played by Geoffey Rush. He informs Elizabeth Swan (Kiera Knightley) that pirates will soon face extinction and the only way to save the pirate life is to unite all the pirate lords of the Brethren Court to fight for their survival.

In the previous movie Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp attempted to steal the heart of Davy Jones,’ a pseudo ghost pirate, which Jones keeps in a chest. Because of his anger over Sparrow’s attempt to kill him by stabbing his heart, Jones imprisons Sparrow on an island also known as The Locker.

In a state of total desperation, characters Barbossa and Swan must travel to exotic but quite dangerous Singapore to steal a navigational chart that points to the Davy Jones’ Locker.

The missing Sparrow is in a state of total hallucination believing that he can possibly eat a rock as food. Thankfully Barbossa along with Swan and a crew of men travel to World’s End, which is almost like another dimension, to rescue Sparrow to inform him that the pirate race faces extinction.

Swan and Barboosa rescue Sparrow and devise a plan to unite all the pirate lords to fight against Lord Beckett and his assistant Davy Jones who wreak havoc on the pirates. Ultimately everyone in the movie ends up being deceitful, even to people who appear to be their friends. The fate of the pirate race solely rests upon whether the lords will willingly unite to fight together.

Several Venice students did not like it very much. Nora Villafana stated that the second and first movie of Pirates of the Caribbean were better. Geraldo Lopez also agreed that the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean did not meet the expectations of the first and second. Peter Travers from “Rolling Stone” magazine, stated that “the third chapter proves that there can indeed be too much of a good thing.”

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