Critic Reviews
45
Metascore
Mixed or Average
positive
11(28%)
mixed
21(54%)
negative
7(18%)
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May 13, 2011
80
This is the perfect summer movie and perhaps the best Pirates of them all.
May 19, 2011
75
On Stranger Tides feels as fresh and bracingly exhilarating as the day Jack Sparrow first swashed his buckle.
May 20, 2011
75
Depp and Cruz only occasionally strike the sparks expected from two of the world's most beautiful people.
May 12, 2011
70
Captain Jack Sparrow is back in excellent form for his fourth adventure in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which is more serious in the hands of a new director, Rob Marshall, and thanks to Penelope Cruz it's also a good deal sexier.
May 12, 2011
70
Serves as a welcome corrective, reviving the fun, feather-light frivolity that any film based on a Disneyland ride ought to exhibit.
May 14, 2011
70
Marshall delivers old-fashioned swashbuckling action-movie thrills more than computer-engineered grotesquerie.
May 19, 2011
67
It's a Herculean task to steal the thunder from a Johnny Depp performance, but Richard Griffiths (best known these days as Harry Potter's tubby Muggle uncle, Vernon Dursley) does exactly that.
May 17, 2011
65
The picture is cluttered and convoluted and big, and Marshall - taking over the reins from Gore Verbinski - doesn't seem to grasp how exhausting nonstop action can be.
