"On Stranger Tides" is the fourth installment of the Pirates franchise and hopefully the last. This film dispenses with Orlando Bloom and Keira Knighley's charachters, who were in the first three films, and there's no explanation or reference to them at all rather this film focuses on Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow. Also notable is that this film has none of the expansive fighting scenes between the ships. Positive additions to this film are added scenes/lines to Geoffry Rush who plays Barbossa and the addition of Penelope Cruz as Angelica, Blackbeard's daughter. The adventure in this film is the race to find the fabled Fountain of Youth, which both the Spanish and British want to find but Blackbeard needs to find it for a more personal reason.
I really liked seeing Penelope Cruz and Johnny Depp spar with each other as their characters are semi-romantic interests. Geoffry Rush is a treat but also look out for Keith Richards in a cameo early in the film. Though there is good acting, overall there was a lot going on in this film and many storylines that were attempted to be resolved in a short period of time at the end. I think that some of these storylines, like the missionary/mermaid one, didn't really add to the film. The Jack/Angelica dynamic and the Blackbeard/Angelica dynamic were more interesting and could've been more fleshed out.
The bottom line is that this film is better than the previous two in the franchise but still not as satisfying as the original. Average but check it out if you're a fan of the franchise: C.
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