After sinking into self-important tedium with its prior two overstuffed installments, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed destined for permanent burial at sea. And yet the soggy franchise and Johnny ...
In "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," Geoffrey Rush returns as duplicitous sea captain Hector Barbossa...but the role required a little more than a few well-timed sneers from franchise ...
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 ...
Reinventing the franchise for this fourth installment, that swaggering, swashbuckling rogue Jack Sparrow finds romance as he searches not only for his lost ship, the Black Pearl, but also for the ...
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer serves up another five-course meal of cinematic fast food, with all the familiar ingredients in exact measurements and just enough flavor to make them palatable. In this ...
In the abstract, I’m kind of giddy that the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has reached its fourth installment, On Stranger Tides. Critics aren’t supposed to think such things, let alone say them ...
Not that quickly in fact. It’s been four years since At World’s End got globally raspberried but made a bucket of wad anyway. Disney and Bruckheimer have presumably spent the intervening period ...