A great reminder of why I love the Pirates franchise

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2017)

Pirates Of The Caribbean is one of my favorite movie franchises of all time. I loved the first 3 movies, and enjoyed parts of 4. Going into Dead Men Tell No Tales, I was really excited. It had great Norwegian directors behind it (Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg), the trailers were great and I was expecting a great fun ride. I left the movie really satisfied. This is the best Pirates movie since The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003).
Plot: Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea—notably Jack. Jack's only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifully small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has ever faced.
It was full of great action, effects, humor, music, acting, it was a lot of fun, and it has a good, but complicated story. The beginning of the movie with young Henry meeting his father Will on board the Dutchman was toughing and sets up the motivation for Henry wanting the Trident perfectly. Carina's motivations for getting the Trident, while not as great as Henry's, was still good.
Jack Sparrow is the same Jack Sparrow we all know and love, and Johhny Deep is once again great as the character, Salazar was a great villain with a great motivation for wanting revenge against Jack, Henry and Carina were great new additions to the franchise, but not on the same level as Will and Elizabeth, but way better then the priest (or whatever he was) and the mermaid in On Stranger Tides. The best character in the movie was Barbossa. Geoffrey Rush is fantastic as he has been in all of the movies, and the fact that Carina is revealed to be Barbossa's daughter is fantastic, and his sacrifice at the end was great and sad.
The ending with Henry reuniting with his father (Will), and Will reuniting with Elizabeth, and Jack setting course for a new adventure was amazing and would a great ending to the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, but there is an after credits scene, which maybe teases a potential sixth Pirates movie with the return of fan- favorite villain Davy Jones.
Problems I have with the movie are one subplot that wasn't needed and led to nothing and an underwhelming climax compared with the other movies' climaxes.
Overall, Dead Men Tell No Tales is a great fun ride that I was never bored with. I think the critics are being way way to hard on this movie. If you love the Pirates movies, even if you weren't a fan of the 4th one, you will enjoy this movie. If you didn't like the Pirates sequels (or the Pirates movies), then this one will not change your mind. If you require movie to be serious or make sense logically, then this isn't the movie for you.
Final verdict: 8,5/10 or 9/10