While seeking the one who pretends to be Jack Sparrow, the real pirate captain encounters an old acquaintance who's in a desperate search of a mythical Fountain of youth. Thus, although with different interests, they go together to search for it. What they will soon find out is that another two parties are heading in the same direction, each with an intention of its own.This fourth installment of the popular franchise presents the latest adventures of captain Jack Sparrow which, different than most of its predecessors, seems to be there just because somebody came with the idea to come with a sequel. Everything seems dull, soulless, made just because it had to be made. The intense action we were accustomed with seems to have drastically decreased, laughter along with it while the story is mediocre at best. Basically, everything good from its predecessors seems to have vanished with little traces left, which are translated into boring dialog with slow or static scenes which do it no good, no matter how you look at it. Even the mind-blowing CGI is scarce if present at all.Unfortunately, there isn't almost anything left to be liked. Despite a couple of old and known characters, which are also very few, you get a couple of new but very forgettable ones. As said early, the story also leaves much to be desired, managing to do little to bring back the viewer from the boredom which surrounds him most of the time.Overall, it's a forgettable fourth movie which as far as I'm concerned, shouldn't have existed. It feels unfinished, made just because it had to be made, without a clear idea which had deserved to be put into picture. Almost everything is mediocre, making it an easily skippable movie. You'll definitely watch it, especially if you're a fan of the series, but be warned. You're in for a big disappointment!

Of all the sequels to the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, this was the most meh. Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad movie. But it might be a bit of a stretch to call it a good one. So this film finds itself stuck in the middle.Acting, once again, was fantastic, the music was great, and the effects were beautiful. The plot, once again, though, is what killed it.The main flaw of the movie is that it doesn't feel like a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and more like a spin off adventure. This probably happens because it lacks several characters who had major roles in the last movie. Case in point: Will Turner, Elizabeth Swan, Pintel, and Ragetti. These are the characters who seemed to be missing from the movie. Of course, there were others, such as Davy Jones, but most of those characters are dead, and even though that didn't stop Barbosa, bringing back Davy Jones would be flat out illogical. The rest of the movie was pretty good, but the fact that it remained so unfaithful to the other movies makes this one feel less like a proper movie, and more like a Netflix spin off.

I remember seeing this and almost directly forgetting it. Its not really bad but not really good either. Its just kind of forgettable. The day after I saw it, I could only remember small things from the movie. It has no impactful moments and the new characters is not that interesting or memorable.

'We're all back together again!' Jerry Bruckheimer (Producer) tells the audience in a featurette. And it feels that the main purpose for this movie was some kind of reunion, because it was fun for them to make the first three.Gore Verbinski is not directing this anymore. And it shows. There is nothing particular memorable about this movie in style or direction. They kept the DOP from the previous movies and the movie is still beautifully shot. When I went to the cinema expecting nothing of the movie (because every story finished nicely at the end of the third movie) I was still entertained. Upon re-watching it, boredom struck. The movie's basic structure is like this: Here you have characters, they need to do these things, okay let's do these things, movie end. It's narratively speaking quite straight forward and therefore the movie doesn't feel pretentious or bloated. What does bother me is that the characters are so uninteresting and what happens during the movie is also quite uninteresting. The movie lost the grandeur of the previous entries.Hey Jerry! What did you say? 'Blackbeard is one of the most evil characters we have ever given you?' Nah, sorry to burst your bubble but the only positive thing about the Blackbeard character is that he is played by Ian McShane. McShane does everything to make the character interesting, because the script is lacking. Blackbeard is really boring and underdeveloped. The second and third movies had time to develop their villains, whereas this movie did not take it's time or tried to bother. Probably because this movie was meant to be the Johnny Depp Show! I'm not even going to mention the forced love-couple in this movie, because that was laughable. The Penelope Cruz character was a nice addition though and she was OK. Johnny himself was not that memorable. He was more on repeat of what he did in previous entries, but now he was the main focus of the movie. But, overall, the highlights of the movie were the Mermaid scene and Geoffrey Rush's Barbossa. (he always looks like he's having fun with the character he plays) You can decide for yourself if that's worth your time to go see this movie. Lower your expectations. It helps!