Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Adventure, Fantasy, Action • 2h 49m
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Kevin McNally, David Bailie, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hollander, Naomie Harris, Martin Klebba, David Schofield, Lauren Maher, Dermot Keaney, Clive Ashborn, Winston Ellis, Christopher Adamson, Andy Beckwith, Jonathan Linsley, Chow Yun-Fat, Ghassan Massoud, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Dominic Scott Kay, Vanessa Branch, Reggie Lee, Marshall Manesh, Angus Barnett, Giles New, Takayo Fischer, Marcel Iureș, Sergio Calderón, James Lancaster, Toru Tanaka Jr., Edwin H. Bravo, Albert 'Sumo' Lee, Tyler Tuione, Larry Leong, Greg Ellis, Brendyn Bell, Ho-Kwan Tse, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Marc Joseph, Chris Symonds, Michael Symonds, Humberto Fernández Tristan, Omid Djalili, Lawrence Cummings, Chris M. Allport, Jim Raycroft, Robert Hovencamp, Geoffrey Alch, Ned Wertimer, Samela A. Beasom, Jessica-Elisabeth, Caesar Peters, Bob Elmore, Mark Hildreth, Matthew Wolf, JB Blanc, Rick Mali, Kimo Keoke, David Prak, Henry T. Yamada, Jonathan Limbo, Mick Gallagher, Philip Shin, Huynh Quang, Ronnie Cruz, Thomas Isao Morinaka, Lidet Viravong, Ova Saopeng, Phoenix Wong, Mark Wherry, Christopher S. Capp, Sam Bower, Arnold Chon, Nicole Dionne, Michelle Lee, David Meunier
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About the film
Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with the revived Captain Barbossa to free Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' locker. The group must navigate dangerous waters, confront many foes and, ultimately, choose sides in a battle wherein piracy itself hangs in the balance.
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- Pirates of the Caribbean 3 - At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End, Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Director: Gore Verbinski
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray encoding is much better caps
Paramount 4K Blu-ray is disappointing capsule review
4K Blu-ray vs Cinema DTS vs D-Theater DVHS?
The D-Theater DVHS/DVD has a different color grading compared to the 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray
Directors: David Hand & Ben Sharpsteen & William Cottrell & Larry Morey & Perce Pearce & Wilfred Jackson
Mono track is on the included Blu-ray; 4K Blu-ray missing original mono. LaserDisc probably better
Director: Mike Judge
Video format: 4K Streaming
2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray
Japan Studio Ghibli 4K Blu-ray announced for a November 25, 2026 release
Japanese audio: 2014 Japan "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Blu-ray/US GKIDS Blu-ray
English dub (Disney): 1998 US Disney VHS has better sounding vocals despite altered music and sound effects, the US Disney LaserDisc has limited audio, and 2003 DVD is a fake 5.1 upmix
Releases from 2010 onward have the original music and sound effects, but distorted vocals
English dub (Streamline): 1996 Japan remastered LaserDisc, available in Ghibli Ga Ippai Collection boxset
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
BD LPCM 5.1
The DTS-HD on the UHD has been dynamically compressed, has had its center channel boosted, and surrounds lowered (typical modern nearfield mix for soundbars). Very different from the BD and DVD tracks. The BD LPCM is basically just a lossless version of the DTS and AC3 from the original DVD (the AC3 actually being the superior mix on that particular release).
Video format: 4K Streaming
Director: Michael Bay
Video format: HD Streaming
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
4K possibly teased?
Directors: Bill Roberts & Paul Satterfield & Wilfred Jackson & Ben Sharpsteen & James Algar & T. Hee & Hamilton Luske & Samuel Armstrong & Jim Handley & Norman Ferguson & David Hand & Ford Beebe Jr.
Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
1991 CAV LaserDisc includes an approximation of the original Fantasound mix in Dolby Surround using the surviving magnetic mixdown, using Stokowski's original mixing notes as a reference. Original aggressive pans and dynamic range are left in tact.
The 2000 DVD uses this same mix in discrete 5.0, but with some unnecessary dynamic range compression + a redub of all Deems Taylor audio with Corey Burton.
The 7.1 mix on the 2010 Blu-ray sounds poor, having been hit with excessive noise reduction, dynamic range compression, original aggressive pans no longer in tact, and the channel usage no longer resembles Stokowski's original intended sound design.
Director: Chris Columbus
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Disney 4K Blu-ray has encoding issues with bitrates dipping into 40mbps, and Kaleidescape has better encoding than Disney see caps
Old Fox Blu-ray master is stretched and sharpened
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray or US Disney Blu-ray
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab) · lddb.com (opens in a new tab)
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
2014 "Hayao Miyazaki Collection" Studio Ghibli Japan Blu-ray
Comparisons: https://slow.pics/c/6JWnlfit
All sources are within margin of error. Comparisons: Japanese, English
Alternate Streamline English dub is available only on 1994 Fox LD.
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