Pirates of Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides

(U)
Release Date: 19th May 2011
Language: English
Running Time: 137 mins
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane
Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures

Onlookers,

This is the 4th serie of Pirates of the Caribbean which i vaguely can remember the former 3. I can remember Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly in few of the serie, and Davy Jones with the Flying Dutchmen, and a huge lady Monster who turn into crabs in the end...

And when i look through the net, the series were:

1. The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
2. Dead Man's Chest (2006)
3. At World's End (2007)

it was more than 4 years back! No wonder i cant recall who Barbossa and Blackbeard was... I thought they were one of the undead sailors of the Flying Dutchmen who traded their souls to become sailors forever.

SO the current movie is of Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp, in a journey to find the fountain of youth. It started with him trying to free an old friend from English prison and ended up getting caught. Then it was an escapade from the King, meeting up Penelope Cruz who turned out to be Blackbeard's daughter, and a race towards the fountain between the English and the Spanish, and the Pirates.

It was a mess in the beginning and blur unnecessary fight scenes...until it get to the mermaids, it got interesting. Why mermaids? Because apparently the ritual to activate the fountain of youth needs a mermaid's tears mixed with the fountain's water into two magical chalices and one who drinks the water with the mermaid's tears get the years of living from the other person who drinks from the other chalice without the mermaids tears. complicated? not so...

And thats probably just about the fascinating thing about the movie: the beautiful yet deadly mermaids plus few good lines from Jack Sparrow and his charming attitude. I thought Penelope Cruz and her spanish accent together with the swashbuckling runaway scenes were a cliche, and Penelope is not as beautiful as i remembered her to be... The rest are just background; failed to make any impact.

Id give the Movie a 2.5 of 5. without the mermaids... i think its a fail.