Here Captain Jack Sparrow pursues his quest for the Fountain of Youth, but becomes snared by an old flame and the cursed Captain Blackbeard. He must evade and deceive enemies with the help of old friends, the only way he can, to unlock the powers of the Fountain.
The Pirates trilogy was already quite flawed; the original film was a spontaneous and exciting movie about pirates based entirely upon a Disney fairground attraction. But the sequels bigged up the story and felt overly clustered with characters and plotting.
On the one hand, On Stranger Tides feels a little more like the original movie; taking itself more like a treasure hunt or a chase movie, which I welcomed. There's less CGI monstrosities here too with more subtle magical undertones.
On the other hand though, it is hard having Captain Jack Sparrow carry a story on his own; his remarkableness is lost when he has less characters to contrast with (I am referring to Will and Elizabeth, obviously). He definitely feels a little misguided at times, and not in the charming sense.
While it is based off the Tim Powers novel On Stranger Tides, I doubt there is much consistency, the film is little more than a goofball action film about pirates. Not as memorable as Curse of the Black Pearl, but certainly not the disaster everyone claims it to be.
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