An average movie

In 2017, they would once again come up with a 5^th instalment for this franchise but, to be honest , I really wonder if it will be really successful, especially since all the recent movies starring Johnny Depp turned to be some massive flops. In fact, his last massive hit was actually this 4^th installment so, even though these sequels (even ‘Dead Man's Chest’ and ‘At World's End’) were all rather misguided and, it made sense that they would keep making those movies since they were all terribly successful at the box-office. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, to be honest, I thought it was actually rather weak. I mean, sure, the fountain of youth was actually a pretty cool idea but, unfortunately, the story was rather poorly written in my opinion. First of all, without including Jack Sparrow, there were also 3 different groups of people looking for this  fountain (the Spaniards, Barbossa and Blackbeard) which was just too much. Furthermore, many people complained that Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann were annoying and boring but their replacement (the priest and the mermaid) were actually even worse. Finally, I thought that even though she looked nice, Penelope Cruz didn't really convince me. Eventually, it was actually thanks to Johnny Depp that this movie didn't become really average. Indeed, as usual, he really shined and made the whole thing rather watchable but I wonder if it will work a 5^th time around. Anyway, to conclude, even though the whole thing felt like a really unnecessary sequel, I guess it is still worth a look but only if you really like the genre.