{"id":2913,"date":"2011-06-12T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T20:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2016-04-22T18:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T02:11:12","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-strange-tides-a-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-strange-tides-a-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strange Tides”, A Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 12, 2010 @ 4:20 PM<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

http:\/\/youtu.be\/KR_9A-cUEJc<\/p>\n

The Story<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Captain Jack Sparrow escapes from a British prison to find his ship the “Black Pearl”. \u00a0The “Black Pearl” has been sunk by Captain Blackbeard, another pirate and his arch-enemy. \u00a0Sparrow is\u00a0kidnapped\u00a0by Blackbeard to serve on his ship, the “Queen Anne’s Revenge”, in his search for the Fountain of Youth. \u00a0Only Captain Sparrow knows where it is. \u00a0The English, lead by Captain Barbossa, a pirate in the\u00a0service\u00a0of the Crown as a privateer, is also looking for the Fountain of Youth (Barbossa actually wants to kill Blackbeard). \u00a0It turns out Sparrow’s lady love, Angelica, is Blackbeard’s\u00a0daughter and has just recently realized it. \u00a0Also competing against the British for the Fountain of Youth is the Spanish Crown. \u00a0The Spaniards are in\u00a0possession\u00a0of a journal that can lead to the Fountain.<\/p>\n

All set-off to find the Fountain of Youth at nearly the same time. \u00a0They are all driven to find the Fountain at all cost. \u00a0The ritual for activating the Fountain’s age-reversing water includes a mermaid’s tear, Ponce de Leon’s two silver chalices, a sacrificial person, and the Fountain’s water. \u00a0The searchers converge at the Fountain and have a big battle.<\/p>\n

Spoiler Alert: the Spanish want to destroy the Fountain, Blackbeard wants the age-reversing waters, Sparrow wants his ship back, Angelica wants her father (Blackbeard)\u00a0to be her father and Barbossa wants to kill Blackbeard.<\/p>\n

The Spanish destroy most of the Fountain, Barbossa kills\u00a0Blackbeard, Angelica gets the years of Blackbeard’s life (and gets exiled to an island), and Sparrow gets the “Black Pearl” back.<\/p>\n

Like<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

The stunts, the costumes, and the humor. \u00a0The story was so-so.<\/p>\n

Dislike<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Not enough action, there were some unclosed subplots like what happened to the Preacher and the mermaid, Sirena. \u00a0I also did not like the constant arguing between Sparrow and Blackbeard. \u00a0But the most annoying thing is that Will (the beautiful Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swan were not in the movie. \u00a0Boohoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 12, 2010 @ 4:20 PM http:\/\/youtu.be\/KR_9A-cUEJc The Story: Captain Jack Sparrow escapes from a British prison to find his ship the “Black Pearl”. \u00a0The “Black Pearl” has been sunk by Captain Blackbeard, another pirate and his arch-enemy. \u00a0Sparrow is\u00a0kidnapped\u00a0by Blackbeard to serve on his ship, the “Queen Anne’s Revenge”, in his search for the … Continue reading “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Strange Tides”, A Movie Review<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,44,68],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-reviews","category-summer-posts","category-events-of-summer-2011","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6650,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/6650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mightyelephant.com\/ams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}