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Finally getting around to watching some of these, “must see” movies. It’s 2026 and I wish these so called celebrities would do their jobs and keep their mouth shut! I would have enjoyed this movie much more if I hadn’t seen Depp running his yap about politics. I was very happy with his win in court, but now, I’ve lost all respect for him and his lefty, liberal, unhinged views. I was hoping he’d work things out w Disney for another P/C movie. Now, I could give a rats ass! FJD

Greetings from Lithuania. "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011) is a disappointing movie considering that it is one of the most expensive movies ever made. As a "Pirates of Caribbean" films go, its not a bad one, but also least entertaining from first 4 original films. The plot here is my least favorite here. Storytelling felt disjointed. While acting was uniformly solid, it felt like stars of the film Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush came here to get those crazy high paychecks (especially Mr. Depp's legendary 55 million paycheck). The supporting cast was, again, uniformly solid, but nothing to write home about. Considering its production budget, its a highly disappointing film. Its a highly forgettable one, and it doesn't have that jaw dropping action spectacle scenes - all three previous movies had those. Music was as usually solid due to Hans Zimmer's involvement. There is also a romance storyline involving Syrena and a priest (?), yet it doesn't work much because it was to short to begin with. It ended on a kind of cliffhanger. While this romance idea was fresh between mermaid and man, they wasted it. Overall, "On Stranger Tides" isn't a bad movie by any means, and its quite entertaining give the poorly involving plot. Considering how much they spent on this movie, it should have been way more spectacular and crazy fun ride. Unfortunately, it was only a ride.

The plot is appreciable as it is classic, it proposes the classic irony of the saga but takes a step back in terms of the story compared to the previous film.

Don't ruin your experience. Watch only the first three movies. Keep your memories of the saga intact. This is total garbage.

Despite having a mediocre and predictable plot, the movie works at some level just because of two things. The first hour takes much time to build the drama. Unfortunately, let’s be real: the concept of the ‘fountain of youth’ is not amazing to work with—at least not in this movie. Everyone is looking for it, but who really cares? Mercifully, once you understand how the ending is being crafted, things start to get a little more exciting. At that point, the best aspects of this saga shine: Jack Sparrow’s screen time and overall mood. Johnny Depp is truly unique; almost every scene he’s in is fun. To elaborate on my feelings about this film, even though it’s not that good, it’s worth your time—especially if you like the saga. There’s a certain mood here that’s simply good—the jokes, the theme, the cast. I don’t know, it’s just good. Also, technically, this movie boasts an impressive HDR presentation.

Dialogue was cringy, plot was boring, and almost all of the action scenes are filler. It's one of those movies that you forget about right after you watch it.

I must admit that even though this movie has returned to its roots and is extremely similar to the original one, I didn't miss Kiera or Orlando. I won't give any spoilers, but johnny Depp and Ms. Cruz both give excellent performances in this one. In general, this movie delivers humour.

Not a bad movie. Part 4 has Jack Sparrow on a quest to **** fountain of youth. A lot of the important cast that helped make the movie are not in this movie.

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Even with welcome performances by Depp and Rush as their respective characters and a score that once again impresses, this shallow, overly long, character develop-less adventure may have checked the right boxes for the studio but, in doing so, lacks any emotional drive or pretty much anything that made the originals so loved in the first place. Except, of course, a charming Captain Jack Sparrow.

As far as the Pirates of the Caribbean movies go, On Stranger Tides may be lacking in the rollicking fun of Curse of the Black Pearl, which I absolutely loved, though it's closer in spirit to it than those of the two movies before, but I think it is better than Dead Man's Chest, which had great effects and a brilliant Bill Nighy but felt overlong and ferentic sometimes, and At World's End, which had the cast giving their all, great visuals, score and final battle but rather convoluted and bloated on the whole. On Stranger Tides isn't perfect. I did feel it did have perhaps have too many moments of exposition and clichés, though the story if slightly rickety in places here is less bloated noticeably and better paced than the film released before it which is a good thing. I also felt the romantic subplot(s) felt underdeveloped and forced, and while there are some droll, bizarre and witty quips particularly with Depp, Rush and Cruz there is a bit of filler that could have been excised. However, despite these complaints, On Stranger Tides is a worthy instalment. Once again, the production values are impeccable, the cinematography is skillful, the costumes, sets and period recreation is authentic and the effects are superb. The opening twenty minutes is an example of the writing being at its funniest and wittiest, and the scenes with the mermaids are beautifully shot and intriguing. While not perhaps original, and not among his best, I did very much like Hans Zimmer's score, which was rousing and brought some much-needed energy. The characters are not the best developed, but they are fun and there aren't too many of them to interrupt the flow of the story, a big problem I found with At World's End, while the action sequences are both exciting and nail-biting on the whole. I wasn't so sure about Rob Marshall as director, but he does a far better job than expected, and the film is livelier in pace than Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. The acting is good enough for what it was. Johnny Depp plays lovable rogue Jack Sparrow with a voluptuous swagger and sly humour and nails it again, while the idea to omit Kiera Knightley and Orlando Bloom here proved a good one, without them for my money the whole adventure carried less of a dead weight. Instead we have Penelope Cruz, who proves a perfect match for Depp. She is feisty, beautiful, foxy and sexy, and also likable and fun. I was wondering what they would do for villains without Bill Nighy, but I needn't have worried. Ian McShane is a worthy addition as Blackbeard, who is charming in a grizzly way while committing acts of great evil. Geoffrey Rush is underused in a way, but he does have some great lines and a fun presence so he isn't a complete waste. In conclusion, On Stranger Tides is not a perfect film, but as an instalment to a decent enough franchise it is a more than worthy one. And you know, what I've said about this movie was not something I thought I would be saying, because judging by what I'd seen of the advertising/trailers, it looked as though it was going be the worst of the series, but actually for me it wasn't. 7.5/10 Bethany Cox

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Sporting a very good cast with interesting new characters, PotC:OST is an improvement over the second and third installments. While the earlier sequels spanned one story that quickly went off the rails, 'Stranger' tells a stand alone tale that is VERY loosely based on Tim Power's novel from 1987. Since Disney did obtain the film rights to the novel, that was in itself inspired by the Disneyland ride, it would have been nice to see a more faithful interpretation rather than stuffing in as many of the franchise characters as they could sign on. Still, this is an entertaining installment with moments that were good enough for 'Raya and the Last Dragon' to rip off.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is difficult to call a full-fledged continuation of the series. It's not a bad response. The cast has changed a lot. It is worth canceling that the new story looks good and we can say that Rob Marshall did the job.

It starts great but declines and in some parts it was boring or lacks immersion. Strangely I also say it has on paper a great story and interesting concepts. I will praise it for bringing in new ideas. It was hard for me to pinpoint what does not work and after some thinking came to the conclusion that I am not attached enough to the new characters and that the execution weakens the experience. Lets start at the beginning. The previous movie At Worlds End was a mixed bag. While not being awful in was overburdened with to many story arcs. This harmed the conclusion. Now with the story finished they are free to use new ideas and characters. Of cause they have to keep Johnny Depp as everything else would be suicide. After Captain Jack Sparrow attempt to save his mate Gibbs he is draw into the hunt for the fountain of youth and ends on the ship of Edward Thatch forever know to be histories most famous pirate Blackbeard. The hunt however is a dire competition as the Spanish and English Kings also send their men to find it. There is also a familiar face on the side of the English men. This is the setup and it sounds absolute awesome. Fountain of youth, a race to get it and Blackbeard is on paper sadly much better than in the actual movie. It is a letdown as it gets too boring or better said unremarkable soon. I repeat it is by no means awful it is an underperformance. Lets go to the actors: Lets start with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. He delivers his signature role and does a good performance. However it is not that refreshing anymore nor can he turn the tide. Geoffrey Rush returns and has developed since the last movie as there were some drastic events. He is my favorite character and is always entertaining. For the new cast there are no misstep but they are also not as immersive and emotional attaching as the old cast. We have Penelope Cruz as Angelica. I think she made an excellent performance. Some of her motives I do not understand so be warned. Ian Mc Shane as Blackbeard is strangely a bit disappointing even if he does nothing wrong. I blame it on the script and expectations as Blackbeard is a legend nearly everyone has ever heard of. Sam Claflin as Phillip Swift and Astrid Berges-Frisbey as Syrena work well but again I think they could be used better. The humor works good in this movie. Again as per franchise standards the sets, costumes and locations are remarkable well done. The battles feel good with some minor missteps. Overall this is neither awesome nor awful. It has great ideas that are not implemented well enough. I think the people in charge agree as we returned to a continuation of previous story arcs in the next movie. Would still recommend to watch it once but it will be fast forgotten.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. There's one big disappointment. A completely useless part that never had to be created. The story is more or less about nothing and we didn't move any further. The effects are excellent and are better with each work, but it is not enough and the story lags far behind. Overall, this is a good film, but just useless. I don't know if I can recommend it. The film is good, so you can watch it, but it's useless, so you don't have to see it.

There are a lot of problems in this movie for one too much innuendo and the villain does practically nothing and the mermaid plot was wierd now for the positives Jack Sparrow was the funniest he's ever been and the beginning and the end were fantastic and the part where Jack mixed the cups and The judge scene was great so 6/10

Надо было останавливаться на трилогии. Единственное чмо мне понравилось в этом фильме это игра Джонни Деппа

After a failed attempt to rescue his first mate, Joshamee Gibbs, in London, Captain Jack Sparrow is brought before King George II. The king wants Jack to guide an expedition to the Fountain of Youth before King Ferdinand and the Spanish Navy can locate it. Jack's old nemesis, Captain Hector Barbossa, now a privateer in service to the British Navy after losing his leg and ship, the Black Pearl, which he says was sunk, is heading the expedition. Jack refuses the offer and escapes. He meets up with his father, Captain Teague, who warns Jack about the Fountain's rituals. Jack learns someone is impersonating him to recruit a crew to find the Fountain. The impostor is Angelica, Jack's former lover, and the daughter of the ruthless pirate Blackbeard, who practices voodoo magic and wields the mythical "Sword of Triton" that controls his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. While Jack is shanghaied aboard Blackbeard's ship, Gibbs escapes execution by memorizing and destroying Jack's map showing the Fountain's location, forcing Barbossa to take him along. Meanwhile, after a failed mutiny aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, Jack is forced to guide the crew to the Fountain. Blackbeard seeks the Fountain's power to circumvent his predestined fatal encounter with a "one-legged man", who happened to be Barbossa. Jack must find two silver chalices aboard Juan Ponce de León's missing flagship, the Santiago. The Fountain's water must simultaneously be drunk by two people from the chalices. Drinking from one chalice containing a mermaid's tear will extend life; the second person dies, their remaining years of life transferred to the other drinker. Jack also discovers that the Black Pearl was captured and shrunk before being added to Blackbeard's collection of other shrunken ships in bottles. The Queen Anne's Revenge heads for Whitecap Bay to find and harvest mermaid tears. After managing to lure in a mermaid named Tamara, she summons other mermaids to attack the crew before Jack causes an explosion that scares them away. A mermaid named Syrena is caught: then Philip Swift, a captive missionary, falls in love with her. Reaching Ponce de León's ship on an uncharted island, Angelica and Blackbeard coerce Jack into retrieving both chalices. Jack locates the grounded, decaying vessel, only to find Barbossa there. Both guess that the Spanish have taken the chalices, after they are nowhere to be found on the vessel. Jack and Barbossa team up to sneak into the Spanish camp and steal the chalices. Barbossa reveals he only wants revenge against Blackbeard for attacking the Black Pearl, and his leg being amputated. Jack and Barbossa escape with the chalices. Meanwhile, Syrena, reciprocating Philip's love, is tricked into shedding a tear. Blackbeard collects it, leaving her to die of dehydration while Philip is forced to go with them. Jack returns with the chalices and bargains with Blackbeard for Angelica's safety, Jack's confiscated magical compass (which they took from him before sending him to get the chalices), and Gibbs' release. In return, Jack vows to give Blackbeard the chalices and lead him to the Fountain; Blackbeard agrees, and Gibbs is set free with the compass. With Blackbeard and Angelica both nearing death, Jack retrieves the last remaining drops of water from the destroyed fountain and puts the tear in one of them. Knowing that one of them must be sacrificed, he wants Angelica to drink from the chalice containing the tear. Instead, Blackbeard drinks it, asking his daughter to save him. Angelica agrees and drinks from the second chalice. Jack is upset to lose Angelica, but reveals that he made a mistake about which chalice contained the tear. Neither of the two are happy, and they both believe Jack deliberately tricked them. Angelica's wounds are healed as the Fountain fatally consumes Blackbeard's body, killing him. Eventually, Jack and Angelica admit their love for each other, yet he distrusts her intentions (aware that she may try to avenge her father) and strands her on a cay. Now wielding Blackbeard's magical sword, Barbossa captains the Queen Anne's Revenge and returns to piracy. Jack finds Gibbs, who had used the compass to locate the Revenge. He reclaims the shrunken Black Pearl and the other conquered ships in bottles, carrying them in a gunny sack. The two leave, hoping to revert the Black Pearl to its original size and continue living the pirates' life.

Fun movie, maybe not the best in series, but still interesting, adventure filled.

Mediocre On Stranger Tides really doesn’t have anything special to it, It’s just a very bland movie.

Worst so far but still manages to be entertaining by not taking itself seriously. Depp and Rush own it.

Fine, I will submit to this one being the weak sequel/remake. Does it satisfy? Yes. Then again, it's a reboot, so don't expect the best.

Seems like a filler movie to keep the franchise afloat until the could come up with a good idea for a better sequel, oh well. It has it's fun moments, but not as many as the first two films.

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probably the best film in the franchise it's awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

This fourth "Pirates" movie feels extremely disjointed and ultimately underwhelming, after the mind-blowing action set pieces from the previous movies. Depp's unpredictability and humour also seems to have faded away.

This was good as a Jack Sparrow adventure. Not as good the last three, but fun blockbuster flick. I can watch it anytime every summer.

Wow. Where did Disney go wrong? Gone is the excellent acting that made the Pirates of the Caribbean saga what it was. I’m sorry, but I just didn’t enjoy the fourth entry as much as the first three. It’s predictable, awkward, and unnecessary.

This fourth Pirates movie is a mess. This movie has things that I like a lot, but it's not a film that exists because someone absolutely had to tell a story. It exists simply because there had to be more Pirates of the Caribbean movies. But like I said, there are things that I like. Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz were very enjoyable to watch together. They had some fun dialogue and the scenes overall had a charming feel to them. The soundtrack continues to be excellent and was used pretty nicely. At the start of the movie we get this fun scene of Sparrow talking with King George II portrayed by Richard Griffiths which escalates to this cool set piece in an 18th century London. During the first act I was honestly thinking that this movie is proving to be pretty entertaining! But that brings me to the story. These characters need to get to a thing called the Fountain of Youth, and that's it. After they realize where they need to go and before they get there, there's a ton of filler in the middle. Some of it is fine for what it is, but at points this movie literally doesn't even know who the main character is anymore. It sets up new characters all the time that do nothing. There's a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and they do nothing meaningful. There were so many random side characters with terrible acting getting way too much screen time and it honestly ended up being pretty distracting. We get more of Jack Sparrow, Penelope Cruz's character Angelica, Barbossa and Ian McShane's character Blackbeard during the third act. But there's a point where they just disappear for a while and we have to watch these random characters that the film has been trying to set up for all this time, and they do nothing because there's nothing to do. Not all of it is awful like I said. Some moments were fine for what they were, but I was still constantly questioning what the point of them is. The third act is a lot better. More of the actually interesting characters fighting in these nicely made action sequences and doing stuff that advances the little plot that the movie has. There are a couple of those "how convenient" moments where some of the characters act like complete dumbasses for the plot to happen, but I was still enjoying it quite a lot, again thanks to Johnny Depp's and Penelope Cruz's enjoyable performances. The characters do what they have to do and the director bookends the movie with a couple weirdly edited dialogue scenes between Jack Sparrow and Joshamee Gibbs. Overall this movie is in many ways an absolute mess, and definitely the worst Pirates of the Caribbean film. But I would still say that it's worth watching for the main cast.

I still think they should've left the franchise at the third one, but who kills a chicken that hatches golden eggs? Without Blood and Knightley, the fourth installment of the "Pirates" franchise still features the over-the-top performance from Johnny Depp but lacks the fun and wittiness of the original trilogy

Really? People hated THIS movie? I don't get it. I like these complicated plots, I'm able to get through them just fine. Maybe I just have a better attention span.

This film is the fourth of the saga "Pirates of the Caribbean". In this film, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), after an incredible escape from London, where he should be tried, sets sail in search of the legendary Fountain of Youth as a prisoner of Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and his alleged daughter, Angelica ( Penelope Cruz), a Spanish girl who angelic has only the name. Against them will oppose the Spanish and English navies, the latter being led by Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who now works for the English king. Directed by Rob Marshall, has screenplay by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, and other collaborators. There are certain films that are made in the name of art and because of challenge they represent. I think the first film of this saga was one of them. But there are many other that are made for profit only, and this was clearly one of them. Far from being very good or have the quality of its previous, it was sufficiently acceptable. The cast was up to, but Depp could no longer be as funny as in previous films. His character, despite the unpredictability, didn't surprised the audience who, knowing him better now, expects anything from him. The end of the participation of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, justified by the conclusion of the story of their characters in the previous film, may also have made this movie less interesting, especially considering the importance of their characters in previous films (it was their love that began all the story), how the absence of these characters breaks the link of this movie with the others and also the fruitful way they shared the scene with Depp and Rush. If the input of Penelope Cruz in the plot was planned to address this lack, then it failed miserably, despite the merits of the actress, who made her best efforts and proved to be a great romantic match for Jack Sparrow, thanks to the fiery and impetuous personality of her character. Equally surprising was Rush, who held the role of Barbossa, whom fate has now made king's privateer. Without a leg and with a wig that completely clashes with his appearance, Barbossa seems more than ever with Long John Silver. The major flaw of this film is the plot: not being able to continue the story that came from the previous films, the script created a whole new story which takes maybe some years after the action of the third film, and only kept some characters from that film. Its a legitimate solution, recurrent in sequels but questionable here, after three films where the plot maintained its unity. This film eventually clash with them as a black sheep in a flock of white sheep. Making a prequel to the first film maybe had revealed a more interesting idea, respecting plot's unity in the whole saga. When this movie was announced, the audience waited eagerly. However, with a new plot, this movie became an "alien" in this cinematic saga. Despite this less positive note, the film is good and the actors deserved congratulations. We just have to understand that this film has almost nothing to do with the previous ones.

Una película aburrida, no sólo por los conceptos repetitivos sino que también tiene una trama lenta y mala.

The simple tale of the voyage to the Fountain of Youth provides ample amounts of what makes adventure movies fun: lush scenery, polished production design, humor, and thrills. Held against Verbinski's brilliant trilogy, it doesn't hold up, but as a kind of Pirates DLC, it's comfortably satisfying.

This is the second best in the series. It goes back to being about pirates, and only pirates. The story is very good, and the whole Fountain of Youth journey was amazing. The characters are great, and the acting was awesome. It was very realistic, well mostly at least. The bad reviews shouldn't be trusted, this was incredible.

The checkered past of Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) catches up to him when he encounters Angelica (Penélope Cruz), a beautiful pirate that Jack once loved then left. Angelica forces him to accompany her to the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the notorious Blackbeard (Ian McShane). Accompanied by a zombie crew, the trio sets sail to find the legendary Fountain of Youth. However, Jack's rival, Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), also seeks the fountain, as does a ship from Spain.

While Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has a better conclusion than it's sequels (and the same gorgeously talented cast), it has a thin plot, a choppy storytelling and, thus, a truly unsatisfying result.

I certainly had my fair share of issues with the 2nd and 3rd movies, but I still got some solid entertainment value from them. Stranger Tides just wasn't engaging for me. The characters, dialogue and plot all felt pretty flat. The PoC movies have always been over the top, unrealistic entertainment, but this one didn't really pull that off like the others did. I didn't find Jack nearly as amusing either. In fact, I find his character to be increasingly confusing as the series goes on. His purpose isn't so much to just go about his own thing as it is to best assist the plot in whatever bizarre way he can whilst appearing as if he's just doing his own thing. There's no consistency to his motives. It kind of bugs me too the way main characters just carelessly back stab and double cross one another despite helping each other out so many times throughout their journeys. I get that they're pirates and that the pirate image is one of ruthlessness and opportunism, but the main characters never quite seem convincingly ruthless. In fact, they seem to look for any excuse they can get not to be ruthless, whilst making it seem as if it's part of some great, senseless master plan. Yah, just wasn't my cup of tea.

When Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack and he is unable to make the bad movie any better, you know you got a problem. The previous film **** and this one was much worse. Stop with these movies, the franchise is dead.

It is fitting that what passes for a plot in “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” involves a search for the fountain of youth. This film, the fourth in a series that made its improbable and profitable leap from the theme park to the multiplex eight summers ago, represents an attempt to rejuvenate a flagging franchise. Whether the effort was absolutely necessary is both an obvious and a naïve question. Why would the Walt Disney Company, which distributes these movies, and Jerry Bruckheimer, who produces them, ever want to leave well enough alone? In Hollywood, gratuitous excess — not necessity — is the mother of invention. Not that “On Stranger Tides” is especially inventive. Gore Verbinski, who directed the first three installments with wanton energy, rococo visual flair and a flagrant disregard for narrative coherence, has been replaced by Rob Marshall, who specializes in turning well-loved pieces of popular art (“Chicago,” “Memoirs ****,” “Nine“) into tedious, literal-minded prestige movies. So while this picture is called “On Stranger Tides,” it is by far the least strange of all the “Pirates” episodes so far, with none of the cartoonish exuberance or creepy-crawly effects that made its predecessors intermittently delightful. Mr. Verbinski, whose sensibility owes more to the naughty, anarchic Warner Brothers and MGM cartoons of the 1940s and ’50s than to the Disney tradition, made a successful transition to full-blown animation with “Rango,” which featured Johnny Depp as a lizard out of water. Mr. Depp, returning as Jack Sparrow in “Tides,” is very much in his aqueous, mischievous element, and he shows admirable professionalism in a project that often seems more like a rock-band reunion tour than a blockbuster movie sequel. A lot of the original cast members and special guest stars have fallen away — Keith Richards shows up for a minute or two, less thrillingly than the last time — but the guys up front are still in good shape, and a few more old-timers have been recruited from elsewhere to add their seasoned chops. Richard Griffiths has a fleshy, wiggy cameo as King George, and Judi Dench appears briefly as a lady in a carriage, but the movie belongs to the power trio of Mr. Depp, Geoffrey Rush (as his sometime nemesis Barbossa) and Ian McShane, who brings a floridly sinister death-metal-meets-“Deadwood” vibe to the role of Blackbeard. Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom are hardly missed, as the filmmakers — Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio are the credited screenwriters — wisely turn the movie over to the gamy supporting players. There are a pair of young people in love, one of them a missionary (Sam Claflin), the other a mermaid (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), but their wooing is incidental to the mugging and bellowing and occasional swordplay among Sparrow, Blackbeard and Barbossa. It’s almost as if a “Harry Potter” movie had dispensed with Harry, Ron and Hermione and devoted itself to documenting a meeting of the Hogwarts faculty. But the name Jerry Bruckheimer in the opening titles mean that things must explode — a huge tank of whale oil, most memorably — and that there must be chases, crashes and leaps through the air. With an early exception involving a cream puff and a chandelier, these action sequences are handled more as instances of duty than occasions for play. And I almost forgot to mention the 3-D, for good and bad reasons. The good one is that the format is mostly unobtrusive: you barely notice it unless a sword is sticking out of the screen or Penélope Cruz is moving toward the camera. Ms. Cruz, who starred with Mr. Depp in “Blow“ about 10 years ago, plays a former and possibly future flame of Jack Sparrow’s named Angelica, who may or may not be Blackbeard’s long-lost daughter. “On Stranger Tides” never lives up to — or, for that matter, does anything to deserve — the recent parody tribute offered by Michael Bolton in a “Saturday Night Live” digital short, which emphasizes exactly the insouciant pop spirit that has slowly drained out of the “Pirates” juggernaut from one film to the next. It lives on in a few bon mots, and in a spooky, sexy sequence involving mermaids, whose pert, smooth tails are the only memorable piscine digital innovations on display here. But like “Thor“ — which is, all in all, not quite as boring — “On Stranger Tides” is protected from the consequences of its own mediocrity by the mere fact that it is opening in thousands of theaters on Friday. People will go, and more energy will be expended parsing the box-office returns than discussing the merits of the film, which is likely to be judged entertaining enough and therefore, in the end, not much fun at all.

Rob Marshall's philosophy for shooting action sequences seems to be roughly equivalent to his approach to musical numbers: give 'em as little as possible. Just as the danceless “dance” sequences that polluted the director's Nine were assembled a posteriori in the editing room, thus obviating the need for choreography, the numerous fight scenes in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides feel cobbled together from hundreds of disparate snippets. No scorched-earth Greengrassian postmodernist, Marshall imbues his sword fights and chase scenes with a semblance of visual coherence, but he's careful not to linger on any single bit of action long enough for viewers to register the significance of the image they've just witnessed. It's an enervating approach that marks the film as more exhausting than enthralling, and its m.o. of nonstop clatter is one that Marshall applies to almost every aspect of the production. Everything is pitched so high in terms of loud exclamations, dramatic music, and frenetic activity that one would reasonably expect the film to be a compendium of juicy thrills, but the uniformity of tone instead renders the whole thing uniformly dull. When the characters aren't fighting each other, they're making solemn threats or, in the case of Johnny Depp's Captain Sparrow and Penélope Cruz's Angelica, exchanging caustic but flirtatious barbs, all of which is about as sexy as watching Richard Griffiths frump it up as a boorish, overweight King George II. This fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the 18th-century-set On Stranger Tides has as its central narrative the search for the Fountain of Youth and the accompanying paraphernalia that allow its powers to be harnessed. In its overly convoluted plotting, three groups of explorers set out to follow the trail of the late Ponce de León. While Sparrow flits between the parties of gone-straight buccaneer Barbossa's (Geoffrey Rush) British contingent and that of the unrepentant pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and his daughter (and Sparrow's love interest) Angelica, the Spanish set off to stake their own claim for the fountain. After the overlong setup (which admittedly contains the film's best action sequence, the only one to successfully incorporate a measure of humor into the staging), it's off to sea for a series of set pieces that have a distinct time-marking quality, riding out the duration until the three groups finally arrive at their destination. There are no shortage of film-padding subplots devised by screenwriters Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio, ranging from the dull to the ridiculous (a romance between a missionary and mermaid has to represent some kind of new low for screen amour) and some half-baked discussion about faith toward which the movie can't be bothered to develop a coherent attitude, but mostly the filmmakers rely on a rather perfunctory use of 3D to endow the whole thing with an (ironically) surface-deep patina of thrills. But give or take a sword or two being thrust at the audience or a barrel rolling toward the viewer and the stereoscopic process serves mostly to extend the foreground image while leaving the background flat. Its use of 3D as uninspired as its staging, plotting, and characters (and its weak stabs at humor), On Stranger Tides proves its title to be a patently false bit of advertising. There's nothing strange—or in any way extraordinary—about this dim-witted bore.

When Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack and he is unable to make the bad movie any better, you know you got a problem. The previous film **** and this one was much worse. Stop with these movies, the franchise is dead.

This is a great start to a new trilogy, and it also remains the best in the series. Jack sparrow is back and is better than ever. Plus we have a cast of new characters, who are mostly presented good. The story is understandable.

If you're going to ARR us with another Pirates of the Caribbean movie, at least try to put effort and don't laze around and rush during the final moments.

Even though, this is my least favorite one in the series, i highly recommend it to all of you, even you haven't watched the original trilogy! My score is a high 7/10

Definitivamente, Rob Marshall não conseguiu resgatar a pegada de ação e aventura do Gore Verbinski,porém é um sólido Blockbuster longe de ser um dos melhores tanto que é a pior entrada na amada franquia "Pirates Of The Caribbean", porém Penélope Cruz acrescentou uma ótima personagem a franquia com uma ótima performance da morena gostosa Penélope Cruz, tanto que Angélica é melhor personagem que Elizabeth Swann, e é claro que Johnny Depp & Geoffrey Rush sempre estão perfeitos nos inesquecíveis papéis Cap. Jack Sparrow e Cap. Hector Barbossa respectivamente. Faltou mais e melhores cenas de ação neste, o que é um pecado se o filme é de aventura, porém tem 2 ou 3 boas cenas de ação. É um bom e sólido Blockbuster porém no 5th Dead Men Tell No Tales terão de melhorar muito na "aventura de ação"

I really enjoyed the first three and thought that a movie focusing just on Jack without will would be fine. Boy was I wrong. These movies need a character like Will alongside Jack as it turns out, and the villain? They just said, "Why don't we take Blackbeard and randomly give him unnecessary magical powers?". Furthermore they tried to create a new love story by literally ripping off The Little Mermaid. Hoping the next one is better.

What... the... hell. How is this even a pirates movie? Where's Will? Where's Elizabeth Swan? What the fricking hell happened here? Black Beard isn't a good villain, I hated the love interest and I hated the story. This movie was CRAP!