15 Must-See Movies On TV This Christmas

Classics, premieres and not a turkey in sight...

Dec 8th 2009 By Mark Powell

Film: Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (2007)

Showing: Boxing Day, 7.30pm, BBC1

Why It’s A Must-See: The stubbornly convoluted plotting of the third Captain Jack Sparrow flick made it smack less of brazen opportunism than the first sequel did, but it manages to be just as much fun as the Pirates franchise ever was.

Moreover, its relative complexity means that you won’t have to talk to your relatives; they’ll be too busy silently picking over the crummy remnants of their selection boxes in gurning, sherry-addled concentration.

Don’t Get Up For A Mince Pie...during the suitably tense stand-off climax to that chaotic heart-stabbing finale. It might be choreographed to within an inch of its life, but we're still suckers for a Western-style good-vs-evil duel. And of course, it doesn't all end as predictably as you might think...

Next: The Graduate

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- sleepwalker
  
  Dec 8th 2009, 12:52
  
  Wasnt Sparrow's rum burning tantrum in the first one!
  
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- sleepwalker
  
  Dec 8th 2009, 12:54
  
  Wasnt Sparrows rum burning tantrum in the first one!
  
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- MarkPowell
  
  Dec 8th 2009, 16:55
  
  Quite right sleepwalker...good spot, dunno quite how I managed that one! Amended to what it was supposed to have been originally now, ta.
  
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- hughjass1970
  
  Dec 8th 2009, 22:04
  
  Dances With Wolves - catch the James Cameron remake in theatres from 17th Dec!
  
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- Ali1748
  
  Dec 9th 2009, 1:32
  
  Midnight Run is such a vastly underrated film.
  
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- lpatterson
  
  Dec 9th 2009, 10:51
  
  This is a brilliant feature! Now I don't have to spend two hours with the frickin Radio Times.
  
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- Hadouken76
  
  Dec 9th 2009, 12:59
  
  dick tracys 'The Blank' was basically a rip off of Rorschach
  
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- KerrAvon
  
  Dec 9th 2009, 15:15
  
  No Scrooged, shocking.
  
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- KerrAvon
  
  Dec 9th 2009, 15:16
  
  Or Bad Santa Christmas is ruined.
  
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- badblokebob
  
  Dec 11th 2009, 15:18
  
  And there I was thinking Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was an adaptation of a book by this guy called Roald Dahl.
  
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