Why...?

Rating: 2/10 (31 May 2011)

I really wanted to like this movie...I really did. When I walked in the theaters I had high hopes, thinking that the directors and the producers would have learned from the previous films and would do something different with this one. But oh how wrong I was. This film is so bad that it makes the the third Pirates looks Oscar worthy.
For starters lets begin with the plot. What plot!?! I could hardly keep track, there was literally a million different subplots, a million different things going on all at once that you could hardly keep up. And overall you could care less of what happens at the end, it became very dragged on and boring when the characters were doing nothing but talking. Oh and another thing, when you make an adventure story please make it somewhat believable! I know that it's supposed to be supernatural in some way but they overdid it here with voodoo dolls and having magical ship with a mind of its own that kills its sailors with the ropes. And don't even get me started with the whole mermaid tear, it was so weird that its hysterical.
And now to the characters. There was no character development, nothing. You felt no love or compassion for any of the characters, not even Jack Sparrow. When I watched Johnny Depp on screen it felt as if he wasn't happy with his character, this is the weakest I have ever seen him as Jack, but I must give him credit for he was the best one. And then there is the villain? Who Blackbeard? He didn't do anything except keep the same solumn face, there was no fear at all with him. Penolepe Cruz could have done so much better! She did not fit well in this film, as if she was out of her realm. There was no chemistry between Johnny Depp and her, the "love" that they shared was not well acted at all, very unbelievable and not worthy of caring about. Barbossa was very bad overall, he was slugging through the film just to be there, he had no point and they made his character a lot more lame and wimpy. The mermaid love story between the priest and her was the most hilarious thing I have ever seen! It was very clichéd, pointless and down right dumb, why the heck would a priest fall for a mermaid!?!? Who would have thought?
And the ending is very weak as well, it leaves you very disappointed as if nothing was accomplished, nothing happens with Penolope Cruz's character and Jack didn't gain anything, not even a heart or morals. As far as I'm concerned, this series is dead, over. There is nothing you can do to revive it now, Hollywood should just let it be and move on to something new