Really funny, worth a watch

Rating: 8/10 (22 October 2017)

The first POTC movie is still one of my all-time favourite movies, and I loved the second one too. I thought the third was awful, and the fourth was decent but not amazing. So going into a *fifth* POTC movie, I was sort of having a mix of curiosity and wondering if this would be really, really bad.
Gotta say I was pleasantly surprised. Me & my family were cracking up at a few parts that were quite cleverly written. Salazar was an interesting villain, the adventure hook was pretty good, and I like that it tied into events from the second movie. It was just all-around a pretty good movie :)
And in my opinion, one of the places where the last 2 movies were weak was in their focus on Jack. Jack Sparrow is a great character, absolutely. But he's also the kind of character that works best when balanced out by a more serious character, the same way a comedic team needs a goofy guy and a straight man. This movie put him back with more "regular" types of characters in an equal share of the plot with him, and I think that really brought a good balance to the cast.
So yeah, all in all, me and my family enjoyed it. I'd put it roughly on par with the second movie.