Dead Men Tell No Tales brings the fun and wit back to the series

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2018)

The third PotC film was great (in my opinion) but lost a lot of the audience by being long and complicated. The fourth film completely lost the heart of the series, most of it not involving pirates and none of it taking place in the Caribbean. Thankfully, this fifth installment comes back to what made people love the first film. It's a swashbuckling, funny, daring, creepy, romantic, and exciting ode to the most preposterous of pirate mythology. It balances the things we expect to see with keeping us on our toes.