This week I shivered me timbers and set sail with everyone’s most beloved pirate Captain Jack Sparrow. That’s right people he is back and ready for action in the fourth installment to the series Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
Johnny Depp is back with of course another outstanding performance as the witty, clever and sometimes air headed Jack Sparrow. Some other characters you will recognize are Sparrows trusty sidekick Gibbs and of course Sparrows fr-enemy Captain Barbossa played by the magnificent Geoffrey Rush.
Other than that the Pirates film is filled with new faces including Panelope Cruz playing the lovely Angelica, an old love interest of Sparrows in the past, and Ian Mcshane playing a very evil Blackbeard.
The plot of the film is to find the Fountain of Youth. The fountain grants the person who drinks from it immortality. But of course, with every Pirate movie and every adventure Jack Sparrow embarks, there is trouble and twist awaiting. Eventually the movie turns into a race between Spain, Britain, and the Pirates to see who can get to the fountain first.
Along his travels, Jack Sparrow runs into some very interesting characters at sea. Blackbeards ship is crewed by a handful of zombie pirates with skin decay and face piercings. There are also some beautiful mermaids in the film but don’t let them fool you, they’re just as dangerous as the zombies.
Even with the charm of Captain Sparrow, I felt the movie fell short of the last three films. I really missed Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly who brought another element to the films. Who could forget the two goofball pirates who dressed up as females and one kept losing his eyeball? Ello Puppet.
I also saw the film in 3-D. I’m not much of a supporter of 3-D movies especially when there really is no point to having it. This was one of those cases. The film was shot mostly using darker colors and the tint of the 3-D glasses made it very difficult to see. I probably only wore the glasses for 25% of the film so I would recommend seeing it in regular 2-D. there were a few times when a sword or a rope seemed 3-D but other than that, there was no point to it.
Overall I give Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 2.5 yo ho ho's and a bottle of rum out of 5. The film stayed true to Jack Sparrow, keeping him the same lovable and funny pirate who can escape out of any situation but unfortunately it just wasn't enough me.
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