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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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Johnny Depp

Penélope Cruz

Geoffrey Rush

Ian McShane

Kevin McNally

Sam Claflin

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey

Stephen Graham

Keith Richards

Richard Griffiths

Greg Ellis

Damian O'Hare

Óscar Jaenada

Anton Lesser

Roger Allam

Judi Dench

Christopher Fairbank

Paul Bazely

Bronson Webb

Richard Thomson

Yuki Matsuzaki

Robbie Kay

Steve Evets

Ian Mercer

Deobia Oparei

Gemma Ward

Sebastian Armesto

Juan Carlos Vellido

Tristan Laurence Perez

Norberto Morán

Gerard Monaco

Tyrone Lopez

Luke Roberts

Daniel Ings

Emilia Jones

Patrick Kennedy

Jody Halse

Clifford Rose

Paul Hunter

Jorgelina Guadalupe Airaldi

Brea Berrett

Toni Busker

Sanya Hughes

Daphne Joy

Antoinette Kalaj

Derek Mears

Danny Le Boyer

Kitt Barrie

Steve Morphew

Alan J. Utley-Moore

Gintare Beinoraviciute

Nicola Bertram

Andrew Crayford

Jason Curle

Kristofer Dayne

Nichola Fynn

Sean Francis George

Bobby Holland Hanton

Randy Herman

Harley Jay

Aaron King

Jeremy King

Matt Lasky

LeJon Stewart

Teresa Mahoney

Edward Mitchell

Kelly Mumme

Salomon Passariello

Siegfried Peters

David Pinkus

Jean Pierre Prats

Steve Saunders

Santi Scinelli

Kristen StephensonPino

Richard Stoker

Robert Stone

Sean Talo

Harvey Walsh

Loretta Walsh

Hannah Walters

Claira Watson Parr

Chuck Williams

Tamayo Perry

John Snowden

Hans Zimmer

Rob Marshall

Ve Neill

Terry Rossio

Jerry Bruckheimer

Ted Elliott

Veronica Lorenz

Flora Moody

Keith Campbell

Dan Brown

Matt Da Silva

Paul Eliopoulos

Brycen Counts

Jeremy Dunn

Thomas DuPont

Joey Anaya

Danny Euston

Andy Butcher

Brian Collins

Chase Armitage

Steve Boyles

Joe Cash

Gary Arthurs

Ilram Choi

Andy Dylan

Alex Chansky

Frank Bakker

Greg Anthony

Tom Aitken

Kofi Elam

Phil Culotta

James Cox

Randall Archer

Jayson Dumenigo

Nick Hobbs

Azmyth Kaminski

Brian Machleit

Peter Kohn

Richard Hansen

Adam Hart

Dominic Preece

Fabio Santos

Mark Vanselow

Liang Yang

Sam Hargrave

Mark McDaniels

Aaron Toney

Laszlo Juhász

Kurt D. Lott

Reg Wayment

Webster Whinery

Eddie Yansick

Charles Ramsay

George Marshall Ruge

Jade Alexis Ryusaki

Matt Sherren

Kofi Yiadom

Tilly Powell

Mark Rhino Smith

Paul Lacovara

Tom Morga

Justin Pearson

Mens-Sana Tamakloe

Cord Walker

Tolga Kenan

Chris Pollard

Gregg Sargeant

Timothy R. Price

Zac Henry

Lyndon S. Hellewell

Jim Palmer

Gordon Seed

Greg Powell

Buddy Sosthand

Andy Wareham

Norb Phillips

Andy Pilgrim

Mark Slaughter

Marlow Warrington-Mattei

Jason Hunjan

Marc Scizak

Arran Topham

Martin Wilde

J. Mark Donaldson

Zach Hudson

Precious Jenkins

Brian J. Williams

Charles Gibson

Nick Shuttleworth

Aaron Williams

Elizabeth McClurg

Marc Mailley

John Myhre

Wyatt Smith

Chad Oman

David Brenner

Kerry Lyn McKissick

Andres Gomez

More of the same ... but it is not funny any more ...

waqas akram

View it as a spin off and it's a rollicking treasure seeking adventure.

Ok lets have it out front right away, this particular writer loved the first film (Curse of the Black Pearl), was disappointed with the second (Dead Man's Chest) and positively found the third (At World's End) to be an incomprehensible bore. Part 4: On Stranger Tides is a shift in another direction, where a group of piratical characters, some we know well, others new to the fold, embark on missions to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. So think "Indiana Jones", "National Treasures" like adventures (hell even "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World") and you get the drift here. Expectation of this franchise getting back to the heady days of that first film will be crushed pretty early on.

There's a little too much going on here for it to be safe children's fare, but the adults, especially those who remember the serial silliness of adventure films of yore, will have a good time. The action set-pieces are superb, enter high speed carriage chase through London, some spiffing sword play deep in the brewery, Blackbeard (Ian McShane) using his black magic whiles to incarcerate mutineers in a whirl of maniacal ropes, and a mermaid attack that quite frankly rocks - as do the mermaids themselves the sexy vicious teasers they are.

Production is as expected top notch, and the cast, in spite of having to battle for screen time in a cast of thousands, are doing fine work (Penélope Cruz a welcome heaving bosom of spunkiness). For sure our main man Captain Jack Sparrow, with Depp just about keeping the characters charm on tap, isn't as dominating a force as we would like, but he leaves his trusty fun mark and the others (Barbosa is back drinking rum out of his newly acquired peg leg) pick up the slack. It's unlikely to get better on revisits, so if you be hardcore POTC from earlier adventures, there's no point going back to se tis one. Those who like the type of films mentioned previously, and don't mind a different direction for the series, then tis holds no fears. 7/10

Andre Gonzales

Not a bad movie. Part 4 has Jack Sparrow on a quest to find the fountain of youth. A lot of the important cast that helped make the movie are not in this movie.

CinemaSerf

At least this is bit shorter than the previous edition of the franchise, but sadly it isn't really any better. Rob Marshall has taken the helm and we have lost Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley - who presumably recognised that the boat has sailed on this much weakened fantasy adventure series. This time around "Jack" (a rather battle-weary Johnny Depp) finds himself looking for the fountain of youth with the newly Anglicised "Barbossa" (Geoffrey Rush) in hot pursuit of him and of his old flame "Angelica" (Penélope Cruz) who happens to be none other than the the daughter of the legendary "Blackbeard" (Ian McShane). Now she is clever. She convinces "Jack" that her dad isn't so well, and that only an elixir of this water can cure him. Thing is, is "Jack" gullible enough to fall for this yarn? Are we? Of course it's not so simple - not only do they need to find the water, they must also find a couple of charmed chalices and, naturally, the tear of a mermaid - the latter creatures not being so benign as Walt Disney's other films might suggest. The visuals are great with a new slew of scary beasties from the depths to entertain us, but the story is pretty weak and the established characterisations struggle to resonate in anything like the way they used to. Sam Claflin adds a bit of eye candy and Richard Griffiths looks every inch the part as George II, but McShane is one of my least favourite character actors - he only has the one gear - and Miss Cruz seems more like a fish out of water than a duck taking to it. There's far too much dialogue and the denouement is stretched beyond breaking point before the obligatory "next time" pointer to the next instalment of this over-tired series. "Pirates of the Caribbean" ought to hang up it's hat now; it's had it's day.

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Johnny Depp

Penélope Cruz

Geoffrey Rush

Ian McShane

Kevin McNally

Sam Claflin

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey

Stephen Graham

Keith Richards

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