The two previous Pirates of the Caribbean movies were overflowed with creativity, never afraid to go overboard with the absurd. They were nowhere near perfect; on the contrary, they were flawed in many respects – the second was too long and the third too pretentious – and yet they all managed to entertain. On Stranger Tides, however, is a tiresome and nonsensical movie that doesn’t even feel to be the work of the same screenwriters.
From the initial trilogy, the best movie to help to explain the mistakes made in On Stranger Tides is undoubtedly the third. At World’s End was criticized because of the unnecessary [...]