Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Movie Reviews

Jack Sparrow is in super form. This time, Johnny Depp takes the iconic character and transforms it into a total prankster who sets you smiling with everything he does, or doesn't do. Of special note is his super ability to stay out of trouble... he's hardly in the middle of a fight, assiduously avoids violence, prefers wordplay to swordplay and follows just one line: the least line of resistance. His entire body language, his dialogue rendition and his sassy attitude

Anchors aweigh! Everyone’s favourite seagoing scoundrel, Captain Jack Sparrow, sets sail again to attemp t a fourth assault on the global box office records. Sorry to say, but the latest installment of the Pirates saga — the first of the series to be filmed in 3D — lacks the breezy charm of the original 2003 aqua adventure or its two follow-ups. Reprising his most famous role, Johnny Depp puts the trinkets-festooned wig back on, dabs a thick coat of eyeliner

At two hours and 16 minutes, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — the fourth film in the ridiculously successful Disney franchise — is the shortest in the series. But it still feels overlong and overstuffed: needlessly convoluted yet, at the same time, phoned-in. And the fact that this one’s in 3-D — because everything’s in 3-D, silly thing — does nothing to liven up the action. Those three-dimensional digital effects mainly consist of various swords

Few could disagree with the choice of players. If one could choose only two humans in all of existence to actually seek out the Fountain Of Youth, they'd be hard-pressed to find a more suitable pair of specimens than Johnny Depp [ Images ] and Penelope Cruz [ Images ], worth rooting boisterously for. Two extraordinarily attractive actors drunk with talent but made special by their unique gift for embracing the silliness, they bob, feint and parry their way

We might hate pirates in real life, but there is no escaping the fact that you love Jack Sparrow. Sure, he might seem the effeminate type but he's the rascal other pirates hate and yet, look up to. He's the man's man and the ladies' man - and that's a rare combination. Kids love his swashbuckling antics and well, the rest of us geeks just choose to gawk at the scenery while pretending Sparrow/Depp's a part of the whole. Of course, if it wasn't for Johnny's

An adventure film based on a roller-coaster ride shouldn’t feel like work. It should be exciting and quick and weightless. Unfortunately Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth installment in the series, is labored, leaden and long. Actually, at two hours and sixteen minutes, it’s the shortest film in the series and yet, it seems to take forever. Captain Jack Sparrow, whom Johnny Depp, at a press conference in Cannes, described as a romantic skunk

In an early scene in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides', Judi Dench makes an uncredited cameo as a British aristocrat in a horse carriage, whose ear Jack Sparrow nuzzles mischievously before taking off on a new adventure. Clearly disappointed from getting less than she’d hoped for, she asks: “Is that it?” Good question, and one that you find yourself asking at the end of this underwhelming fourth installment of the Disney franchise

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Review Business rating: 2.5 stars. What’s Good: Johnny Depp’s per...