I was disappointed when I heard they were making a fourth,mainly because I felt that they did such a good job that we could only go down from there.I am not against further adventures of Capt.Jack,but it is hard to maintain such a level of high quality.On Stranger Tides is proof of that.In no ways is it a bad movie,it is just a sub par movie compared to the absolute awesomeness that came first.Capt.J gets caught up in the search for the Fountain of Youth,and along the way hooks up with Penelope Cruz as a very uninteresting female character from Jack's past.That's her role in the film.The villain this time is Blackbeard,played by the great Ian Mcshane,who must find the Fountain or perish.This character is described in the script and even in history as maybe the most fierce pirate ever,and I can only imagine what Mcshane could have done with a better script,but here the character is fairly weak and leagues less menacing than Davy Jones or even Barbossa from the first film.We also get a watered down romance between two ancillary characters meant to evoke memories of the actually good love story between Will and Elizabeth from the first trilogy.
In the end Pirates 4 has some amusements,but nothing really memorable.3 stars based on fondness for the series,closer to a 2.5.
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