Kingdom Hearts 3 Scenes Compared to Their Disney Movie Counterpart
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is the third movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and is also the second most expensive movie ever made, second only to the fourth movie in the franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
A third visit to this world by filmmakers with an extremely large budget means the product was basically guaranteed to be stunning visually, and it is. Its set pieces are massive, its world feels alive and its characters are decked in some of the most detailed outfits in any Disney movie ever (there is so much storytelling to be found in the outfit Jack Sparrow dons).
So, how does Kingdom Hearts 3 stack up against it? Well, to put it blunt, not great, but the result isn’t terrible — it’s just that Kingdom Hearts 3 isn’t the kind of game to include hyper-realistic humans so when you compare their take on Jack Sparrow and others, the result is very uncanny valley-like.
Exhibit A
A quick glance at this scene reveals a pretty accurate reincarnation on Kingdom Hearts 3’s part of one of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End’s stand out moments. After a few seconds, though, Exhibit A quickly becomes a “find what’s different” puzzle.
The Kingdom Hearts 3 version (top) doesn’t feature Jack the monkey, or Elizabeth’s Pirate Lord hat and hair or the badass charisma oozing off of Keira Knightley’s portrayal of Elizabeth Swann.
It’s easy to forgive a lack of hat or monkey, but goodness, Elizabeth got the short end of the stick here. Whereas Barbossa and Jack look great compared to their on-screen counterparts, Elizabeth looks like someone completely different.
Her face is longer in Kingdom Hearts, her nose is bigger, her hair is different and it just simply doesn’t look like Keira Knightly. This would be understandable if it weren’t for Square Enix showing that they can near perfectly recreate actors in video games as they have shown with Barbossa and Jack.
Exhibit B
While Square Enix failed to make a good model for Elizabeth Swann, they absolutely nailed it with Davy Jones. Truth be told, even looking at it now, it’s tough to tell which is which.
Up top is Kingdom Hearts 3’s version of Davy Jones and the At World’s End version is below it. Both feature extreme levels of details, both feature slimy tentacles that look straight out of the ocean, both feature barnacle-encrusted devil’s tongue hats and both manage to capture the essence of Bill Nighy.
