Despite dumping most of the cast and significantly changing-up the formula, On Stranger Tides isn’t a spin-off or reboot - it’s a true sequel. The story is especially tepid and makes no mention of the events that transpired in the original trilogy – none, whatsoever. The film isn’t terrible – but at almost every turn, the returning actors and the updated plot come across as lazy or uninspired.
Fan-favorites Captain Jack Sparrow and Barbossa both return but much like the action, the pair are watered-down versions of their prior selves. Unfortunately, even though it does successfully purge the series of a number of overly convoluted plot threads from the trilogy, On Stranger Tides fails to match the epic scope and entertaining set-pieces that many fans are going to expect – especially in the latter half of the film. Were the radical changes enough to freshen the franchise and pave the way for future sequels?
But the team didn’t just bring back fan-favorite scallywags in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, they also introduced a smorgasbord of fantasy genre staples – including zombies and mermaids. To combat franchise fatigue, producer Jerry Bruckheimer enlisted the help of his Curse of the Black Pearl screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio who tossed out most of their prior character creations to inject the film with a lot of fresh and fantastical blood.
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