At 'Pirates #4' the series is getting a bit long in the tooth.

Rating: Null/10 (7 December 2011)

Almost two years ago when I wrote my comments for 'Pirates #3' I said, "Is this really the final installment." It seems that it wasn't, but I hope now that it is. I know, I don't HAVE to watch them, but I feel an obligation.
Johnny Depp is back as Jack Sparrow, the pirate always looking for a ship. His strange slurring speech was novel the first time but frankly is getting a bit tiresome.
His love interest is a new character, Penélope Cruz as Angelica Teach, who we eventually find out is the long lost daughter of Blackbeard. It seems that Jack and Angelica had some sort of relationship some years back, and are reuniting, not sure if there are feelings.
Geoffrey Rush is Barbossa and veteran Ian McShane at almost 70 makes a fine Blackbeard.
The story is essentially three teams going for the same 'treasure', the mythical 'fountain of youth', one from Britain, one from Spain, and the pirates. As legend goes they must retrieve two silver chalices and with the help of one teardrop from a mermaid as the catalyst one person can gain the years from another.
This of course requires a mermaid and that is filled by the exotic looking Astrid Bergès-Frisbey as Syrena, carried through the jungle in a container half filled with water for much of the second half of the movie.
Since most of this is no longer novel, some of the scenes moved a bit slowly, and I some times became tired of just another sword fight between pirates. Not to say I wasn't entertained, because I was, but it was a bit long at just over two hours.
The critic Ebert has what I consider a very fair and accurate review.
It was fun to see rocker Keith Richards in the movie, in the role of Captain Teague.