Well after four years it finally happened. They made another pirates film. *sigh* well let's get started.
Plot: The film starts out with Captain Jack Sparrow going to London in search of finding someone who is impersonating him while he's on his way to find the Fountain of Youth. On the way, He bumps into his best friend and former first mate, Gibbs and Barbossa who has become a Privateer and is also searching for the fountain. Later he finds the impersonator who turns out to be his old flame Angelica. Angelica takes him to the Queen Anne's Revenge where it turns out that she is the long lost daughter of Blackbeard. and so all three race for the fountain of youth along with Barbossa and his men and the Spanish.
This film is nice it's- it's decent. But a little hard to accept as one of the Pirates films. I mean part of it is the things they lay out in the beginning *WARNING* i'm about to mention a couple of examples; such as Barbossa being a privateer and has lost his leg, the Black Pearl gone and the idea that Jack has ever had an actual flame. The plot was better in terms of it being less confusing then 2 and 3 but it's also how the movie is hard to accept. To me the movie looks and sound more like a story from some video game or kid novel or something like that, that doesn't have too much to do with the original story, and they have now just made a "The Movie" of one of those stories.
Acting/Characters:
Johnny Depp/Captain Jack Sparrow:...well...he was Jack...again. and It was all the more amusing as he went. I personally enjoyed how he started in this film. and altogether, he was cleaver and unpredictable as ever.
Penelope Cruz/Angelica: Well fun fact for starters; This is the very first film I have ever seen with Penelope Cruz. And frankly this is not the right film to start judging how she is as and actress. I mean her character is very predictable. Although when it came to finally seeing the film I was actually okay with her actually being an old flame when it comes to her relationship with Jack. I mean when I saw the trailers, I thought she was going to be some chick he just met during the beginning of the film which probably would've made the whole matter between them even more flat. But while it isn't the best thing to know about Jack's past, her being an old flame was actually much better. The last issue I had was that how things went between her and Jack as far goes as trusting each other or whether or not they still have a thing for each other, was that you could hardly know...least of all trust. I mean they're pirates for heaven's sake. you know they generally are just plain old selfish pirates. I mean Sao Fang pointed out really good during the last film, and I quote; "The only way a pirate can make a living these days is by betraying other pirates." So that's where the film was very predictable.
Ian McShane/Blackbeard: Well the nice thing about him is that they made his all mystical and evil, I mean the things he did that resulted in the death of a lot of people, mostly his men,...the bad thing is that he's no Davy Jones. he's vulnerable as they point out just fine in this film. But hey, he did alright as someone who isn't totally worse than Davy Jones.
Geoffrey Rush/Barbossa: What the heck? This is way too much change for Barbossa. I mean sure, last film he just went to an evil pirate to a good pirate. okay, that's acceptable. But then you have this film where he is now a privateer? Again. What the heck? He makes for it a little during the second half of the film but still.
Music: Well they still made it Pirates of the Caribbean. However one issue I have is that there was one song, I don't know what track specifically or from which part where a part of the song just sounded like the music that was played in Beauty and the Beast just as Belle left the castle before being attacked by the wolves. and I really hope i'm wrong because I do like Hans Zimmer. Bad enough he did the music for Rango.
Action: it wasn't and majorly big and the final battle in World's end but ti was still pretty good.
Editing:I think it was good.
And that is my review for Pirates of the Caribbean:On Stranger Tides. It's a decent film, hard to accept as part of the official story, but hey, beats Dead man's chest right?
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