With the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow (memorably portrayed by Johnny Depp) earning legions of fans right across the globe, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy has proven to be one of the most popular series of films in recent times. Fortunately, there's good reason too. The trilogy starts off with the best of the three films. The Curse Of The Black Pearl is a superb piece of blockbuster movie making, delivering lots of laughs, some fabulous set pieces and a core of good, old-fashioned swashbuckling action. With a terrific supporting cast, led by the likes of... Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, its running time simply zips by in a flash, and there's plenty of incentive to hit the play button again once the credits roll. The second movie in the series, Dead Man's Chest was more commercially successful, but it's not quite as strong a film. Nonetheless, there's still plenty to enjoy, including Bill Nighy's stunning Davy Jones (the special effects there are something to behold). And it earns extra bonus points for a terrific final twist in the end reel. And then we arrive at the closing part of the trilogy, At World's End. This is arguably the most bloated, with a nigh-on three hour running time, but it does pack a lot in. Multiple Johnny Depps for starters, along with some terrific action too. While the three parts of the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy may thus be a little uneven, its nonetheless a collection of films with plenty to recommend. The first part sails away with the top honours, but there's little doubt that all three are set to entertain audiences for many years to come. --Jon Foster [show more]
Over the last year I've been buying myself all the components for a nice home-theatre setup and as of last month all the pieces are in place. All that was left now was to buy some material to show of this system.
I read up on different Blu-ray review sites and found that the Pirates of The Caribbean movies came highly rated. I started looking for them, but as with all Disney releases, the price of the individual movies was a bit too steep for me. It was then that I saw this trilogy pack at Amazon for less than £25. At this price point, this pack is simply the best Blu-ray purchase I've done to date (Although the "The Matrix" trilogy also comes close).
This pack consists of the three separate retail Double-disc Blu-ray cases in a nice sleeve.
Each part of the trilogy comes with 2 discs. One with the main feature including some extras and the other is filled to the brim with even more extras.
I can be short about the movies themselves: they get a little worse with each sequel, but even the last one is very enjoyable. They're always bombastic, mostly funny, but at times they're just plain silly. (But hey, it's a Disney movie after all.)
The greatest thing about this trilogy however is the quality of image and sound. The video encodes are simply perfect. No grain, vibrant colours, as sharp as video can be, and a consistent high bitrates makes these the best transfers (apart from the Imax scenes in the Dark Knight) I have ever seen.
While the video is superb, the audio is even better. It comes in an uncompressed format at about 6Mb/s (That's almost the same bitrate that a DVD uses for the video-stream!) and it will simply blow your mind if you have a decent surround system. Dialogue is always clear and crisp, but it's in the action sequences you'll be at the tip of your chair. The positioning on the surround plane is great, sound is as dynamic as ever... well, there just aren't words to describe how great the sound is. When you're at the end of one of these movies, and the credits start rolling with the Pirates theme playing, you'll know what I mean.
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