DIRECTOR: Rob Marshall
STUDIO: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
STARRING: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush
RATING: PG-13
GENRE: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
GRADE: B-
Wow. Just as an intro, it has been WAY too long since my last review. Hope I haven't lost anybody. (not like anyone's actually reading, anyways). Anyways, onto the review!
I've always felt likethe Pirate series was the new generation's Indiana Jones series. Wildly popular and exciting, with more sequels than you can count. Unfortuantely for the Pirates series, the sequels have always been far worse than the original. Although the fourth installment is better than the second and third, it still doesn't reach the potential of the original film.
The film deals with Captain Jack Sparrow looking for the fountain of youth with an old flame, played by Penelope Cruz's character. It's a very simple plot line - almost TOO simple, for a PotC movie - and quite easy to follow. The writers just started from scratch and began the entire stories over again.
The dialouge is...decent and is a bit wishy-washy at times, but it gets the job done. The only thing that I really didn't like was the romantic subplot between two VERY supporting characters. It might have worked better if it was more developed, but it should have been taken out completely.
A "B-" suits this film well, especially compared with trying to recover from that AWFUL third installment that made audiences go bald from scratching their heads so often.
