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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

2011

Rob Marshall

Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane ...

5.4

56,039

Adventure. Fantasy. Action Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) finds himself on an unexpected journey to the fabled Fountain of Youth when a gorgeous woman from his past (Penelope Cruz) forces him aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the formidable pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane).

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One improvement this time is the dropping of the superfluous non-pirate characters played earlier by Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. (...) It is long, expensive and bombastic (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Andrew Barker Variety	"A welcome corrective, reviving the fun, feather-light frivolity that any film based on a Disneyland ride ought to exhibit. (...) still doesn't make much sense, but it's lost all pretensions that it should, and looks poised to plunder massive worldwide coin."
		Ray Bennett The Hollywood Reporter	"Sparrow is back in excellent form for his fourth adventure in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which is more serious in the hands of a new director, Rob Marshall, and thanks to Penelope Cruz it's also a good deal sexier"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Stranger tides? Stranger than what? What's strange, or fresh, about any of the mechanical diversions on offer here (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"The more sequels spun off, the clearer it becomes that one movie about these swashbucklers would have suffice (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Pirates 4 is infected with the repetitive action and blathering incoherence that scuttled its predecessors. Marshall deserves props for putting the "show" back into the Pirates business. But face it, he's polishing a giant turd (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"Another five-course meal of cinematic fast food (...) This is eye-catching and forgettable in the patented Bruckheimer manner"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Depp's Sparrow is a genuinely funny character and Depp still puts the ho-ho into yo-ho-ho (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Helen O'Hara Empire	"Despite quality set-pieces and the best efforts of the cast, this is dull and crossbones (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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