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On Stranger Tides

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Quite honestly, there just is not a whole lot to say about the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, the franchise's fifth entry. Dubbed Dead Men Tell No Tales, this all feels like "second-verse-same-as-the-first" with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow, a few cameos popping up from previous films, and a mashup of previous characters and new ones. Largely, we have a fifth film because the fourth film, 2011's On Stranger Tides, may have grossed $180 million less in North America than the biggest success in the series thus far, 2006's Dead Man's Chest, but cleared more than $1 billion worldwide. Disney has financed the film for more than $230 million, so clearly they want all the money. But, like...is there still an audience for this? …show more content…

and DC Comics. They nabbed the directing duo of Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, who steered their ambitious, modestly budgeted, water-bound film, Kon-Tiki, to a Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination in 2012. Here, the directors band together with Jeff Nathanson's screenplay and give us a drunker and more useless Jack Sparrow (Depp), whose schtick is wearing thin. The joy and humor Depp brought to the role has long since dissipated and all he does for two-plus hours is play an obnoxious, dim-witted drunk, who seems more in the way than

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