Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Overrated

Instant Favorite.

From my favorite movies..

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

While seeking the one who pretends to be Jack Sparrow, the real pirate captain encounters an old acquaintance who's in a desperate search of a mythical Fountain of youth. Thus, although with different interests, they go together to search for it. What they will soon find out is that another two parties are heading in the same direction, each with an intention of its own.This fourth installment of the popular franchise presents the latest adventures of captain Jack Sparrow which, different than most of its predecessors, seems to be there just because somebody came with the idea to come with a sequel. Everything seems dull, soulless, made just because it had to be made. The intense action we were accustomed with seems to have drastically decreased, laughter along with it while the story is mediocre at best. Basically, everything good from its predecessors seems to have vanished with little traces left, which are translated into boring dialog with slow or static scenes which do it no good, no matter how you look at it. Even the mind-blowing CGI is scarce if present at all.Unfortunately, there isn't almost anything left to be liked. Despite a couple of old and known characters, which are also very few, you get a couple of new but very forgettable ones. As said early, the story also leaves much to be desired, managing to do little to bring back the viewer from the boredom which surrounds him most of the time.Overall, it's a forgettable fourth movie which as far as I'm concerned, shouldn't have existed. It feels unfinished, made just because it had to be made, without a clear idea which had deserved to be put into picture. Almost everything is mediocre, making it an easily skippable movie. You'll definitely watch it, especially if you're a fan of the series, but be warned. You're in for a big disappointment!

It took me 3 tries to sit through it. At one point I threw an empty bottle across the room when I saw that I still had 55 minutes left in it.Johnny Depp's shtick is wearing thin. I can't not see Tommy Wiseau all over Johnny Depp's continually sloppier and slurrier Jack Sparrow.The romances were just... bad. Like these might work in a different setting or story but not in this one.I saw everything in the plot coming about 20-40 minutes early.Like, this movie was even too boring to be background nonsense while I played Roller Coaster Tycoon on my phone and ate mini donuts.One of the biggest issues is how Jack Sparrow has just the most insane plot armour. Nothing hurts him. Not jumping off a cliff. Not jumping off a tower. Not any of that ridiculous chase scene. Not any of the moronic escape scene.It was endearing when like some minor level of absurd hijinks worked in his favour, but its too many bananas when Jack is Assassin's Creed-ing across the landscape where every action creates a cascade of other actions that perfectly create the exact calamity and circumstances for the wacky outcome to happen flawlessly. And then to follow it with a joke thats basically Jim Halpert staring into the camera.Sometimes the human kickstarted rube goldberg machine is fun. But not in almost every chase/escape/action sequence. Less is more. Ant-Man doesn't have Michael Pena doing his story telling gag 2, 3, 5, 69 times a film.Sword fights are cool.

Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is close on story and spirit like the Original plus finally Sparrow acts more like himself than the previous 2 installments cause he blows things up, fights an entire army and even his love Angelica also let's not forget how awesome Blackbeard was as a villain and showcasing zombie fied pirates alongside a super sword that controls an entire ship? Was pretty clever and finally the plot made more sense this time around.

'We're all back together again!' Jerry Bruckheimer (Producer) tells the audience in a featurette. And it feels that the main purpose for this movie was some kind of reunion, because it was fun for them to make the first three.Gore Verbinski is not directing this anymore. And it shows. There is nothing particular memorable about this movie in style or direction. They kept the DOP from the previous movies and the movie is still beautifully shot. When I went to the cinema expecting nothing of the movie (because every story finished nicely at the end of the third movie) I was still entertained. Upon re-watching it, boredom struck. The movie's basic structure is like this: Here you have characters, they need to do these things, okay let's do these things, movie end. It's narratively speaking quite straight forward and therefore the movie doesn't feel pretentious or bloated. What does bother me is that the characters are so uninteresting and what happens during the movie is also quite uninteresting. The movie lost the grandeur of the previous entries.Hey Jerry! What did you say? 'Blackbeard is one of the most evil characters we have ever given you?' Nah, sorry to burst your bubble but the only positive thing about the Blackbeard character is that he is played by Ian McShane. McShane does everything to make the character interesting, because the script is lacking. Blackbeard is really boring and underdeveloped. The second and third movies had time to develop their villains, whereas this movie did not take it's time or tried to bother. Probably because this movie was meant to be the Johnny Depp Show! I'm not even going to mention the forced love-couple in this movie, because that was laughable. The Penelope Cruz character was a nice addition though and she was OK. Johnny himself was not that memorable. He was more on repeat of what he did in previous entries, but now he was the main focus of the movie. But, overall, the highlights of the movie were the Mermaid scene and Geoffrey Rush's Barbossa. (he always looks like he's having fun with the character he plays) You can decide for yourself if that's worth your time to go see this movie. Lower your expectations. It helps!