Stand-Alone Pirates Movie

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2019)

Here is filming in native 3D, which now in retrospective had been limiting producer Jerry Bruckheimer's and director Rob Marshall's vision for a stand-alone "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie as summer blockbuster event back in May 2011.
All the basic cast from the initial trilogy directed by Gore Verbinski return as Johnny Depp leads the story as Oscar-nominated character "Jack Sparrow", at Academy Award ceremony in 2004, to an mysterious island, where to believe the cave, which is holding the "Fountain of Youth". New cast entreès Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane in a wrangling father and daughter relationship, which has some beats of surprise, but does not convince to the very end.
Nevertheless the sheer production effort and atmospheric cinematography, especially at mermaids cove make it a Hollywood joy ride, much shorter in running time as its predecessors that moments of Disney movie magic remain.