Add to that Geoffrey Rush loving every second of playing peg-legged Captain Barbossa and the always reliable Ian McShane providing considerable gravitas as the evil Blackbeard, what you get is a strong and sturdy movie that provides thoroughly good entertainment. Gone is the tortured William and Elizabeth plot line replacing it is a fresh and zesty coupling in man-ever-on-the-edge-of-catastrophe, Captain Jack Sparrow (played brilliantly as ever by Johnny Depp) and double-triple-and-quadruple-crossing femme fatale, Angelica (a thoroughly engaging performance by Penélope Cruz). However, what it does do is reinvigorate the sense of fun that was sorely missing from the overblown and overbearing two movies that preceded it but was key to what made the first movie (‘The Curse Of The Black Pearl’ – which we review here ) so successful.
Genre: Action / Adventure REVIEW: ‘PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES’Īs the 4 th instalment in the franchise, it is perhaps no surprise that ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ does not bring anything particularly new to the party. Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) – Director: Rob Marshall All the while his old treacherous first mate Barbossa is hot on his trail and Jack must use the full extent of his charm to stop everyone from trying to kill him. To make matters worse he learns that a woman whose heart he apparently broke is actually Blackbeard’s daughter, and he doesn’t know which one he should fear more.
Eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, who claims to have been there before, finds himself an unwilling part of the crew of Blackbeard, the pirate that all other pirates fear. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – There is a race to be the first to find the mythical ‘Fountain of Youth’.
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