Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem
Directed By: Joachim Ronning, Espen Sandberg
Running Time: 129 Minutes
UK Release Date: 25 May 2017
BBFC Certificate: 12A
To be honest I enjoy sequels and franchises as long as they keep up the standard and improve upon previous entries, which sadly often isn’t the case. I have reviewed countless sequels over the years and with this review I don’t want to regurgitate what I have previously written about franchises, and I will try to keep this to a minimum with this review as I don’t want to go over old ground; but rather tread new waters (pun fully intended).
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was a pleasant surprise to a lot of people when it came out in 2003. Many asked how could a film based on an old amusement park ride have such an effect on audiences around the world, and the answer is because it was fun. Cutthroat Island (1995) was a well-documented bomb at the box office and it was a risky move for Disney to release the first Pirates film, but it paid off both financially and critically. [Read more…]
I’m still not sure why the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie is called Dead Men Tell No Tales in the US, but in the UK it’s Salazar’s Revenge. Now a new trailer has arrived, which concentrates on why Javier Bardem’s Salazar hates Jack Sparrow so much and is determined to get his revenge..
I’m still not sure why the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie is called Dead Men Tell No Tales in the US, but in the UK it’s Salazar’s Revenge. Now a new trailer has arrived, which tells us more about the plot than anything we’ve seen before, and exactly why Javier Bardem’s Salazar is after revenge – which involves a very youthful Jack Sparrow.
Disney hasn’t hyped the return of Pirates of the Caribbean with Dead Men Tell No Tales as much as we might have expected. However, they did give the movie a Super Bowl spot, with an extended version released online, which you can take a look at below.
Ever since it was officially announced, the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie has been titled Dead Men Tell No Tales. It’s still called that in the US, but for some reason it’s been retitled in the UK, as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge. I’m not quite sure how that’s any better.
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