Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

One of the main complaints I hear about my site and my reviews is that I love movies too much-not movies in general, just specific movies that a lot of people don’t like, or that I only watch movies that are going to be good. Well, within the course of one review writing session, I have to look back on Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, Cars 2, Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides, and then I get to watch Something Borrowed and I Don’t Know How She Does It. You have no right to complain. The forth movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, based off of the Disney theme park ride, On Stranger Tides is a movie that should not have existed. The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy ended, it was finished, I actually truly enjoyed all of them (maybe not Dead Man’s Chest), and thought of it as a complete done story. But then they got greedy. Once again starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, this film follows the adventures of Sparrow as he gets involved with Captain Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and his daughter Angelica (Penelope Cruz) as they try to find the Fountain of Youth, but also along for the ride are mermaids? I really do not know. The movie is extremely convoluted, which plays out as an excuse for its running time of over two hours, something that it really did not deserve. The movie is too long, too convoluted, and too popular for me to have remorse for it. Now, don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a terrible film by any stretch of the word, but it does have a screenplay that someone pulled out of the trash, it is rehashed, unoriginal, and boring. The film looks nice, the actors are all good in their respective roles, but the film just isn’t fun to watch, something it needed extremely desperately. Do not see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Nobody needs to give this movie any more money than it already has, currently, this movie is the 8th highest-grossing movie of all-time, a fact which makes me sick to my stomach. America couldn’t give money to Midnight in Paris, The Descendants, or Scott Pilgrim vs. the World? No, but for some reason they could give a billion dollars to more rehashed trash with nothing more to its name than its name and some pretty effects.
3.5/10