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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Tiresome is a good way to describe this…there was nothing fresh, not even in Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow, and the supernatural elements were annoying.

Premise

I wasn’t a fan of 2 and 3 as those should have been stand-alone movies like the Indiana Jones flicks, Die Hards and superhero stories. That 4 was its own tale, albeit with Geoffrey Rush needlessly returning, was the only reason I gave this a shot.

I was immediately turned off when the objective to find the Fountain of Youth was established. I feel the writers and executives involved misinterpreted the success of the original and have been going astray since then. The supernatural element in the original was accepted because a curse is not so supernatural. A lot of people believe in it to some degree, as in an evil eye. Plus, it mainly affected the bad guys and it’s easier to accept something from many years ago when there is no proof to refute it.

Here, the movie tried to pass off the Fountain of Youth as something other than myth. How was that supposed to work? Then it got worse from there- killer mermaids, Blackbeard (a real person from history) with powers similar to Magneto from the X-Men- and it was all presented as perfectly normal. Ugh.

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