So this will be a fairly brief review, the hour is late and I need my sleep.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the 4th film in the franchise inspired by a ride at Disneyland. I’m a big fan of the first film, owning it on blu-Ray disc, but I did not like the two sequels. In my opinion the second and third films suffered from an over abundance of cynicism, while the first film frolicked in its love of fun and whimsey.

This 4th film, while not as good or self-contained as the the first is much better than the previous sequels. The sense of fun has been restored and that alone made this a watchable movie.

It suffers from being a bit long and having a few subplots that were better edited out at the script writing level, and characters that seem to have no real bearing on the story other than as macguffins.

That said I enjoyed the flick, was happy to see it and I may even see it again. I am told by my sweetie-wife it bears little resemblance to the novel that suggested the script. I have the book, On Stranger Tides. It is by one of my favorite authors and I look forward to reading it when I finish my own novel.