Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Review

The Never-Ending Story 4.........Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz

With promises of a fifth and sixth, the laboured Pirates of The Caribbean series is turning into the Harry Potter "trilogy" or 007 saga. Johnny Depp is hooked up with both of these sequels with a long contract. This next outing, begins in Ye Olde London, where camp Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) is gallivanting around from cart to cart trying to avoid good King George's men. Richard Griffiths plays our dear King who has set up a team to track down the fabled Fountain of Youth because he doesn't want anyone European (in this case, the Spanish) getting their hand's on it. Enter Penelope Cruz who plays Angelica, a friend or foe from Sparrow's past. She drugs him and he end's up on Blackbeard's (Ian McShane) boat, Queen Anne's Revenge on a Indiana Jone's mission for the fountain. It's pretty good for a fourth installment such as Shrek Forever After was. Let's just say, thank God they aren't making a fourth Toy Story. 


4/5