Johnny Depp’s performance as Captain Jack Sparrow has become a cultural touchstone and the casting of Ian McShane as the pirate Blackbeard is inspired.
Yet, I can’t seem to muster up the enthusiasm needed to properly anticipate the fourth chapter of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
Maybe I’m still experiencing burnout from the back-to-back wallop of POTC: Dead Man’s Chest and POTC: At World’s End from a few years back. But I think I’m mostly cool to POTC: On Stranger Tides because it looks like such a blatant money grab, it fails to inspire.
If anything, it makes me want to go back and watch POTC: The Curse of The Black Pearl – a perfectly satisfying adventure film that was less concerned about establishing a perfunctory mythology that the characters could inhabit.
At any rate, here’s the new trailer. What are your thoughts?
I don’t think I could scream “Do not want” any louder than I already have.
Too many jokes and making out with fish ladies, not enough swashbuckling. I have faith though, I loved all three movies. I hope they keep making them.
The first Pirates of the Caribbean film rocked, the second two were bloated, boring, convoluted messes. Hopefully this one will be better than the last two movies.
I’ll be seeing it with an open mind.
I’m quite thrilled that Wil and Whats-her-face aren’t going to be in it. I got sick of them after the first movie. But….what’s with the zombies in eeeHHHVerything lately? Oh, and what Cal said.
I know they put in that one scene at the end of the end of “At World’s End” so they could make a sequel, but even though I love the PotC franchise, I dunno if I wanted them to actually make the fourth one.
I dunno, there’s something about trilogies that should just keep them as trilogies, right?
Anywho, I’m going to see this ’cause I’m in love with Captain Jack Sparrow. My teenage girl in the back of my head is upset that he has a love interest in this movie. But ah well. I also think the dynamics will be quite a bit different *because* Will and Elizabeth aren’t going to be in it.
That’s my input, for what’s it worth.
No. #2 and #3 were a waste of time. I still don’t know what happened. Way too long for what could have been one film.
This looks like recycled material from the first three. Pure money grab for Disney.