At some point, you have to start wondering where that old Johnny Depp went. You know the one, yeah? That guy from Jump Street, who said he would never do a movie for money, and would most assuredly never do a franchise of cash-grabbing-sequels. If you never asked yourself where that Johnny Depp had wandered off to in a Hunter Thompson style ether binge, now would be a good time to start.
On Stranger Tides pits the legendary Jack Sparrow (Depp) in a three way race between Barbosa (Rush) and a band of pretty boy Spaniards to find the much fabled Fountain of Youth. It leads to some foreseeable things, and Depp acting a little too flamboyant to be a real pirate. What's of note though is where it differs from what you would expect, in ways like the inclusion of man-eating-mermaids, with the voices of Sirens, or an oddly mystical Black Beard, who is also looking for the Fountain, to evade a prophecy of his death.
The story gets a little convoluted about here, as these things tend to. But in the end the whole mess comes together in a way that doesn't seem as ham-fisted as you might expect from the sequel to the sequel of the sequel of a story based on a boat ride in a theme park. Did I lose anyone there? No? Good.
This movie will likely be in theaters all summer, so if it gets really freaking hot, and your AC unit goes to the appliance warehouse in the sky, this is a good excuse to waste some climate controlled time in your local theater.
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