Good Adventure, But No Peter Sellers

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2019)

28 May 2017. For some reason I'm reminded of Peter Sellers' Insp. Jacques Clouseau in The Pink Panther (1963) which watching Johnny Depp's performance in this Caribbean sequel. But in the end Sellers' performance still rang more true. As another reviewer commented, the rhythm of this newest movie just isn't as smooth as earlier versions. Admittedly, the special effects are amazing as will other blockbusters will be coming out this summer. The storyline is indeed impressive helping to tie up some lose ends. There are the various requisite emotive, sensitive scenes. Overall, this blockbuster adventure holds one's interest for the most part, offers the audience something that is both understandable and entertaining. It is perhaps the overdone jokes, so many of them, like a live stage comic act, whereby some jokes are winners and others are so-so. I really wanted more, but since I really didn't want to go see this movie in the first place but was forced to, the movie was actually good and I'm glad I did.