This may be down to the fact that much of the story is adapted from well-regarded pirate novel On Stranger Tides.
That’s a very stripped down summation of the plot, but you can still probably tell from it that the plotting is just as convoluted as ever.ĭespite this, the story is nowhere near as scattershot and hard to follow as the previous two films. Coincidentally, that’s also where the newly one-legged Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) is heading, now employed by the British Navy to get control of the Fountain of Youth before it is reached and captured by the Spanish. He wakes up to find himself on-board the Queen Anne’s Revenge, a legendary ship where Angelica is first mate and the captain is Blackbeard (Ian McShane), the mostfeared pirate on all of the seas.īlackbeard, spooked by a soothsayer who has predicted he will die at the hands of a one-legged man, is attempting to find the mystical Fountain of Youth in a last ditch attempt to gain immortality. After some playful fighting and flirting, Jack is tricked by her and knocked out. Here’s the set-up: whilst dodging the navy in London, Captain Jack (Johnny Depp) discovers old flame Angelica (Penélope Cruz) impersonating him while recruiting sailors for her ship.
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So has On Stranger Tides rectified these issues? Is the series back on track? The answer is a resounding ‘kind of’. Completely incomprehensible plotting coupled with the sucking charisma vacuums of Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom (not that I blame them – some of the characters in Pirates are so thinly drawn that the best actors in the world would struggle to make them interesting, unless they’ve got a comedy Keith Richards impersonation to fall back on, obviously) were huge flaws that, when combined with a bafflingly epic running time, rendered, for me at least, much of the films largely unwatchable.
It’s this loyal pubescent audience that has led from the front to make the Pirates films one of the most successful film series in history.īut even taking into account that these are ultimately kids’ films, the disappointment of the middle chapters in the saga should not be overlooked. The key demographic for the films is clearly eight to 12-year-olds, however many clunky innuendos and bizarrely unpleasant hanging sequences they want to tag on for the ‘grown-ups’. Before we do though, here’s another reason why this review is largely meaningless: the Pirates series isn’t for us.
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