Here’s the set-up: whilst dodging the navy in London, Captain Jack (Johnny Depp) discovers old flame Angelica (Penélope Cruz) impersonating him while recruiting sailors for her ship.
#WATCH PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ON STRANGER TIDES SOCKSHARE SERIES#
So has On Stranger Tides rectified these issues? Is the series back on track? The answer is a resounding ‘kind of’. Completely incomprehensible plotting coupled with the sucking charisma vacuums of Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom (not that I blame them – some of the characters in Pirates are so thinly drawn that the best actors in the world would struggle to make them interesting, unless they’ve got a comedy Keith Richards impersonation to fall back on, obviously) were huge flaws that, when combined with a bafflingly epic running time, rendered, for me at least, much of the films largely unwatchable. It’s this loyal pubescent audience that has led from the front to make the Pirates films one of the most successful film series in history.īut even taking into account that these are ultimately kids’ films, the disappointment of the middle chapters in the saga should not be overlooked.
The key demographic for the films is clearly eight to 12-year-olds, however many clunky innuendos and bizarrely unpleasant hanging sequences they want to tag on for the ‘grown-ups’. Before we do though, here’s another reason why this review is largely meaningless: the Pirates series isn’t for us.
0 kommentar(er)
