They had to make another one, didn't they?

Rating: 3/10 (19 October 2013)

This is one of those movies that I believe really did not need to be made, and the fact that it was, and grabbed onto the tail-coats of a reasonably successful franchise, suggests to me that at this stage the producers are pretty much scrapping at the bottom of the barrel. When it became clear that the original trilogy was supposed to have been made as a trilogy (and it is much more difficult to create a movie trilogy than it is to write a trilogy of novels) I did look forward to the final movie, but when I discovered that they had written a forth movie, I simply rolled my eyes.
I expected that this movie was not going to be anywhere near as good as the earlier movies (and I would not hold the original trilogy to any high regard) and when I did end up watching it I quite disappointment. Personally, I found it quite boring and unoriginal. While some of the original characters had returned (such as Captain Jack Sparrow), many of the heroes from the original movies had vanished. The new character that they introduced (namely Blackbeard) I just did not consider at all original, and neither did I consider the quest (looking for the Fountain of Youth) to be all that enthralling.
Personally, I really do not want to write much more on this film, so I will leave it at that.