Aye, strange tides were sailed. No Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightley aka two thirds of the original main cast that made up a very large part of the fan base. Okay so first I must say that yes I can review this movie before it came out in theatres because I went to an advance showing. Anyways, overall I was pretty disappointed in the movie.
It had those overall bits of the original Pirates movies that everyone loves; classic Jack Sparrow correcting people to call him Captain and his overall demeanor as a whole was still intact. But the situations around him and most of the characters were just wrong. Penelope Cruz's accent admittedly got annoying as the film went on. Disney, you know, those people who made the Little Mermaid, also managed to destroy any respect I ever had for mermaids by making them extremely evil and almost vampiric. Actually not "almost"... "very" is a much better word. They hissed. Hissing mermaids. Hissing killer mermaids as a matter of fact.
As a huge fan of the first movie; I literally watched it three times straight after I saw it the first time; it's definitely something for me to be saying it wasn't very good. There were some lines that I'm sure will be quoted, but not nearly as many as were in the first three movies. This fourth installment has a predictable plot too. Unlike the previous movies, the plot is pretty simple and nothing extremely dramatic happens. Or maybe it's just that plots have gotten so generic that it's easy to tell where movies are going with the story. Either way, me timbers were not shiverin' at this here movie.
I give it: 6/10
My sister saw it today and loved it, but I heard bad things about it from everyone else.
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