A typical sequel of a sequel of a sequel of a sequel

Rating: 4/10 (22 October 2017)

Riddled with plot holes and finished off with pointless clichés, the weakest of the series so far.
First the good - Javier Bardem made a great villain, the special effects were very special, and there were a few good jokes in the first 20 minutes (though the over-labouring of the Horologist joke got a bit irritating).
And now for the bad - in the first few minutes it tramples all over the end of Dead man's Chest - the Flying Dutchman needs a serious lick of paint and William Turner has turned into a new Davy Jones, seemingly for no reason whatsoever. And then there's the whole Salazar business - no big back story, a young Sparrow just out-maneuvered them. So why on earth would he and his crew hold an everlasting grudge against Jack Sparrow? Surely Salazar's crew would be far more annoyed their idiot captain had been outwitted by a teenager, and sailed them into a volcano?
And what happened to the Queen Anne's Revenge? No explanation was given for it's disappearance, so all I can assume is Barbosa must have left it in a car park one night when he was drunk, and staggered home forgetting where he's left it. And then there's Jack himself - Sparrow basically did nothing the whole movie except booze, so if I were Turner Jr I'd have headed off with Ms Smyth and avoided all the extra needless danger and irritation of sharing a ship with a hopeless drunk pursued by undead pirate hunters.
Finally, just to add insult to injury, Barbosa, who had never shown any signs of affection to anything except the Black Pearl and his monkey, was suddenly willing to sacrifice his life for a daughter he's never seen and fling himself into the wild blue yonder to fight the newly alive Salzar, who by that time wouldn't have given a monkey's about fighting Sparrow, much less some random fool with a wooden leg. Oh, and why did they have to rehash the ending of the first film and make Salazar and his crew alive again? Couldn't they have come up with something more original?
So, erm, it'd probably be bearable if it was the first one you'd watched or you'd conveniently forgotten all the previous movies, but if not it's just a tired old rehash with some stupid clichés and idiotic plot holes, glossed over with some nice special effects.