10/10
Wait, WHAT?! Naw, this rocks!
23 December 2023
This is the best one, although my favorite before this was Stranger tides... I always thought worlds end was too much.

I was pleased when I saw that the franchise had started back up again with the trip to the fountain of youth... especially the scene with the mermaids singing... they look so beautiful, but you know something horrendous is going to happen. And it does, to Scrumm of all people, and now he becomes a member of the crew that frequently follow Jack or Barbossa around.

This final film has no such trickery, no images of beauty that are representing things evil. We see the evil in all of its rotting glory, and we know what it is. It's one last major dilemma that Captain Jack Sparrah has to face, one he is responsible for, which he exacerbates by making a stupid move involving his magic Compass.

I will let you figure out exactly what that is, though, by watching this.

And once again we get to see Barbossa, although now he is an ally.

What I really like about the Barbossa character is that he had a slight bit of domesticity in Stranger Tides, he liked being served his meals on the deck, he liked being a bourgeois officer and privateer.

We see in this film, this tendency of his has carried on. He surrounds himself with Music and items that he never would have enjoyed as a pirate, when we first see him here, well, I can give you a clue: he is rocking out.

This was a part of Barbossa that we never knew existed... he enjoys good things. Good food, good music. And, the man is a lot more than the apple eating pirate that we have come to love as Jack Sparrow's nemesis, and sometimes pseudo ally.

But that does not make him any less dangerous, as he still has Blackbeards sword... and Barbossa has one last thing he needs to do with that sword.

After that, he has one more thing he has to do. There's one more thing we learn about him that we never expected, we start getting clues in the middle of the film.

But mostly this film focuses upon Henry, the son of Will Turner. And one other person of roughly the same age.

This is also the final ending of the romance between Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann... or is it? There is always a reason to stay in the theater until the very very end of all of the credits, because something else is always brewing, innit?

I feel badly that this was final teaser not pursued, but I hope now that it will be now that Johnny has been sufficiently "pardoned" (much like the character that he always plays- he always gets into a spot of a jam, and then some Governor or King or Lord gives them a "get out of the gallows free card"...)
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