Nope, I haven't bothered to see the film yet, but I did download the demo from the Xbox Live Marketplace yesterday, and in short, the experience was generally bland.
Based on the demo, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Xbox 360) looks good, featured the film's soundtrack, but had lackluster, repetitive gameplay and shoddy voice acting.
The gameplay was standard action/adventure fair: move around, kill poor AI enemies, and navigate the general hazards of the map. This demo features the game's tutorial, where Capt. Jack Sparrow escapes from the prison we saw at the beginning of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (I want to say Bargate Prison, but I'm guessing that's from something else).
Anyway, Jack can perform standard sword and punch combos, has his flintlock pistol, can go around ledges, use his sword to climb up walls, etc. It actually reminded me a lot of Treyarch's Spider-Man series of games, except there you have a lot more combat options and can actually swing around with style.
The end of the demo featured a few special duals, in which you needed to quickly react to block your opponent's thrusts and then issue counter attacks of your own. Overall I found the experience tedious, and the whole demo doesn't have much in the way of replay value.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End would be a rental at best.
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