Pirates of Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Name: Pirates of Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Genre: Adventure/ Fantasy

Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Rob Marshall (Director)

Synopsis: Jack Sparrow came to London to rescue his mate, Joshamee Gibbs but Jack’s real reason to come to London is to find the person who is impersonating Jack and recruits a crew. As jack thought he rescued Gibbs, both Gibbs and Jack were taken into custody and Jack was taken to King George II. King wants Jack to guide and expedition to found Fountain of Youth before the Spanish. Jack asks him to ask him to give him a ship and a crew for the expedition but his also gives him a captain for the ship i.e. Captain Barbossa who is now a privateer in the Royal Navy. Jack escapes from there. He meets his father captain Teague, who warns him that the Fountain of Youth will test him. Later on, he came to know that the person who was impersonating Jack is none other than Angelica, who is her former lover and daughter of Blackbeard, a ruthless pirate. Jack is forced to lead Blackbeard’s crew to Fountain of Youth. Jack was onboard on Queen Anne’s Revenge, where he came to know that the fountain water must be drink from two silver chalices that once belonged to Juan Ponce de Leon. The person who drinks from the chalice containing mermaid’s tear will have the life extended and the other person will die as the remaining life will be extracted from it. On other hand, Gibbs memorizing the Jack’s map and later on destroys it, forcing a deal with Barbossa that he will spare his life in return he will take Barbossa to the Fountain of Youth. Blackbeard wants this fountain power so that he could prevent his fatal encounter with the “one legged man, Barbossa” and set a course for White Bay. They were attacked by group of angry mermaids but Blackbeard was able to capture one of them. Philip Swift, a captive missionary by Blackbeard falls in love with the mermaid and names her Syrena. Blackbeard sends Jack to retrieve the chalices from Leon’s ship.

Jack finds the old ship and enters in it and later meet Barbossa was there too. Both of them came to know that chalices are in the possession of Spanish. Barbossa in reality only seeks revenge against Blackbeard attacking the Pearl, which force Barbossa to cut his own leg in order to escape and tells him that reason is to kill Blackbeard as for revenge of losing Pearl. Jack and Barbossa joined forces. Jack steals the chalices from Spanish men. Syrena meanwhile also starts reciprocating Philip’s feelings. But through the trickery of Blackbeard able to get mermaid’s tear and after that left that mermaid to die. Blackbeard takes Philip with him. Soon Jack meets Blackbeard with the chalices and strikes a deal with Blackbeard that he wants his magical compass and the release of Gibbs and in exchange to that, he vows to take Blackbeard to give him the Chalices and take them to the Fountain of Youth. Blackbeard agrees to the deal. When they reached fountain, Blackbeard and his crew meets Barbossa and his men. As fight starts soon, Spanish and their men appeared and tried to destroy both Chalices and the fountain. During the fight Barbossa stabs Blackbeard with his poisoned laced sword. Angelica when tries to take that poisoned sword from Blackbeard she cuts herself too. Barbossa takes Blackbeard magical sword and his crew too. Philip got injured during the fight but manages to escapes from there and frees Syrena. Spanish throws broken chalices into the water. Syrena takes the chalices and back to Jack. She goes back to Philip and kisses him and takes him back to water. As both Blackbeard and Angelica were injured and wounded, Jack convinces that Angelica to drink from the chalice which contains the mermaid’s tear and Blackbeard should sacrifice his life for Angelica’s safety. Blackbeard asks Angelica to drink the water from other chalice and let him drink from the chalice containing the tear. Angelica agrees to it and drinks from the chalice which doesn’t contain the tear. But Jack deceives them in the matter that Angelica actually drinks from the chalice containing the tear and Blackbeard drinks the opposite one. Blackbeard’s body was consumed by fountain and eventually killed him. Angelica admits her love to Jack but Jack knows that Angelica will try to take revenge against him for Blackbeard’s death; he strands her on an Island with one pistol and a shot. Barbossa claims Queen Anee’s Revenge and the rest of the crew and becomes a pirate again as he has taken his revenge. Jack finds Gibbs, who used his compass to locate and take the shrunken Pearl. But Gibbs has taken all the shrunken ships in bottles which were in possession of Blackbeard. He hopes to bring Black Pearl back to his original form and determines to continue a pirate life as he said “it’s a pirate’s life for me, Savy”. In the post credit scenes, Angelica sitting on shore of Island finds the voodoo doll of Jack and looks with a grin.

Review: Being the forth part of the Pirates of the Caribbean, lot of hopes were there from the movie and the movie no doubts clears the coast very well. Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush’s were performance were as usual excellent. As there was no Orlando Bloom and Keira in this part so there a something that can be doubted in the movie but bringing in Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane was a good move which brings new energy, style and a variety in the movie with Ian McShane as ruthless and aggression and Penelope with sensuousness and sexy pirate. Direction of the movie was decent. Story of the movie is very much unique and it’s some of the previous parts. Movie is not of action one but it is more of an adventurous and fantasy movie with concepts of Fountain of Youth, Mermaids, and Chalices etc. which were very unique. Special effects of the movie are also above average. Overall the movie is a good entertainment with full of adventure, fantasy and a little dramatic twist in the end, with the solid performance of Johnny Depp with his Humor, style and the way the pirate. “Oh yes! Very Piratey”.  

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5. 

Pirates of Caribbean: At World’s End

Name: Pirates of Caribbean: At World’s End

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy/Action

Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Rush, Chow Yun Fat, Gore Verbinski (Director)

Synopsis: To have full control over the seas, Lord Beckett kills anyone who is being suspected of piracy which includes women and children. As Beckett has Jones heart, now he uses Jones to destroy any pirate ship he sees on seas. Condemned prisoners compel nine pirate lords to convene the fourth brethren court at Shipwreck cove so that they could take action against Beckett. Barbossa leads will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma and rest of his crew to rescue Jack from Davy Jones locker. Another pirate lord, Sao Fang, posses a map to the locker called “The Navigation Chart” where jack is imprisoned eternally. Elizabeth and Will tries to bargain with Feng for map and ship, but Feng got angry as Will already tried to steal it with his own men. British Royal Navy under the orders of Beckett Feng’s bathhouse. Later Will strikes a deal with Feng. Will wants Black Pearl to rescue his father from Dutchman. As crew after many difficulties rescues manages to rescue Jack from Jones locker. During the escape route, they see dead soul where Elizabeth sees her father’s soul too. Tia told them that it was his lover calypso, who appointed him to check the dead to the next world and return he was able to step on land once in ten years but when Calypso failed to meet him, he abandoned his duty and was subsequently turned into a monster. When they came to real world, Sao Feng ambushed them. He betrayed the rest and handed them to Backett for the Pearl, and also came to know that everyone has some motive to rescue jack but no one came to rescue jack just for the sake that they miss him. Backett takes Jack with him on the Endeavour. Feng bargains with Barbossa for the pearl. When Feng attack Becketts ship, Jack escapes. Feng told Elizabeth that the first brethren court tried to trap Calypso in human form. As ordered by Beckett, Jones destroys Feng’s ship. When Feng was about to die, he appointed Elizabeth as the new captain of his ship and later on Elizabeth and his new crew were imprisoned. She later came to know from Bootstrap Bill that whoever stabs Davy Jones heart will have to become the next captain of Flying Dutchman. Elizabeth and her crew escapes from there custody but Norrington was killed. On the Ship deck, Jack tells that he stab the heart so that Will’s problems can be solved and thrown him into the river and gives him his own compass so that Beckett could find him and shipwreck cove with that compass. On Pearl, Jones meet calypso which now being shown as Tia Dalma herself and asks why she left him like this? She told him that once they let him free, she will tell how cruel she is, Jones after hearing that left.

When there was a meeting at Shipwreck cove, Barbossa tells them about freeing the calypso is the only way to solve their problem but Jack said that he agrees with Elizabeth’s idea of fighting the war with Beckett. At last, Barbossa said that only Pirate king can make that decision and calls Captain Teague to confirm that. After that there was vote to elect pirate king and Jack voted for Elizabeth and rest of the lord votes for themselves which makes Elizabeth the pirate king and yes she declare the war with Beckett. Before the war they had a parley with Beckett and Jones and during that Elizabeth swap Will with Jack realizing that Jack true motive is to stab the heart of Jones. Barbossa steal the pieces of eight and tried to free Calypso. Soon calypso lashes her fury and created a storm in water where surrounds both Pearl and Dutchman. Jack escapes from Dutchman with the chest in which Jones heart was kept, resulting in a sword fight between Jones and Jack. Will proposes Elizabeth and they marry. But during the fight Jones wounded Will. Jack was tempted to stab Jones heart himself but seeing Will was about to die, he places his sword in Will’s hand and helped him to stab Jones heart. Jack and Elizabeth escapes the Dutchman as it was about to sink. Beckett tried to attack pearl but Dutchman suddenly appears within the waters and then both Pearl and Dutchman destroyed Endeavour which results in killing Beckett. Will is now alive but has to sail seas and captain of Dutchman. Elizabeth after farewell with Jack and rest of the pearl’s crew spends a day with Will. Will departs Elizabeth the chest and tells that he will come one day after he fulfilled his duty as captain of Dutchman for ten years. When Jack and Gibbs were Tortuga then finds that their ship has gone and Barbossa has taken it. Barbossa tells his crew that now they are going to find the Fountain of Youth but later came to know that Jack has cut the middle of the map. Jack sails for the fountain of youth in a small boat.

In the post cut scenes, Ten years later Elizabeth and her son was standing on the top of a cliff and there arrives the Flying Dutchman and Will came back after fulfilling his duty for ten years of the captain of Flying Dutchman and is released from that obligation. 

       

Review: As this was the third part of the trilogy a much was expected but it did reasonably good. Johnny Depp’s performance was as usual very good with some good performances of Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Rush and Orlando Bloom. But this part of the trilogy was a little stretched which was at all not needed. At some part of the movie, it feels little slacky and boring but the last of movie was very much exciting full of action and adventure. Humor in the movie was as usual, decent one. In the middle part, the movie becomes slows and pace was not there which loses its hold on the audience. Special effects of the movie were almost as its previous part. In this part, it was clearly shown that Gore Verbinski doesn’t remained focus on his strengths which he remained in the first part of Pirates of Caribbean. As a whole movie is a good entertainer for the audience. But clearly till now the best part of the trilogy was the first one.   

Stars given: 3 out of 5.

Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Name: Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy

Cast: Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, Bill Nighy, Gore Verbinski (Director)

Synopsis: Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading company, come to the wedding of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, interrupted it and has arrest warrants for them as they helped Jack Sparrow to escape during his execution. He also has an arrest warrant for Norrington as he is responsible for delaying the pursuit of Jack. He arrests Elizabeth and sends Will to look for Jack’s magic compass which points to the direction that whatever the holder of the compass wants at that time and for that he will give him Letter of Marquee which will make Jack a privateer and will free Will and Elizabeth. As Will leaves, Governor Swann, Elizabeth’s father was arrested and taken into custody. Beckett frees Elizabeth to go after Will and gives him Letters of Marque. Jack escapes from prison with a drawing of key which he wishes to have. On the pearl he reunites with Bootstrap Bill who has joined Davy Jones crew so that he could escape the fate trapped on the seabed. He tells Jack about the deal he made with Jones that either I must join his crew or being dragged into Jones locker by his pet “The Kraken”. Jack ending up landing in Pelegosto where he is praised as god by some local tribal’s which were planning to eat him. Will and the crew arrives on the island but were taken as captive. Later on, they manages to escape from their which were immediately followed by Jack. The crew visits Tia Dalma, a voodoo practitioner tells them there is to open dead man’s chest. There is a key which Davy Jones had kept with himself of the chest in which his has kept his own heart after being betrayed by his lover. She tells Jack to find Jones Flying Dutchman and gives him jar of dirt, as Jones can only step on land once in every 10 years.

Will goes on a shipwreck on Jack saying but actually it was a way so that Flying Dutchman to appear. Flying Dutchman appears and Jones takes Will as a prisoner. Jones confronts Jack and makes a deal with jack and also Will has to stay on Dutchman where he meets his father. When his father came to know that Will hasn’t pledge to serve Jones, he helps him to escape from Dutchman. Will steals the key from Jones when he was asleep and promises to free his father. Jack goes to Tortuga and recruits new crew. He meets Elizabeth and Norrington there. Both of them joined Jack. Soon Jack realizes that if Beckett gets Jones heart, he will rule the seas. Norrington on other hand plans to get Jones Heart so that he could regain his honor and life and can have rank of Admiral. Jones also realized that Jack is after chest. Everyone arrives at Isla Cruces. Three a sword fight starts between Will, Jack and Norrington as each of them having their own goals and on other hand Elizabeth, Pintel and Ragetti fight with Jones crew. Jack removes Jones heart from the chest and put it in the dirt jar locks the chest again. But Norrington somehow finds it and remove heart from jar and asks them to leave and pretend to be sacrifice for Jones crew. Jack, Will, Elizabeth and his crew boards Black Pearl and tries to overrun Dutchman but Jones set Kraken free so that they could be trapped again. Soon Jack discovers that the heart was missing and runs above leaving his crew behind. Elizabeth saw this incident. Will tries to fight the Kraken with some explosives and he wounded kraken. Seeing this Jack returns back to Pearl. Jack orders his crew to abandon the ship. When Elizabeth was going at last, he gave a kiss to Jack but cleverly chained Jack. Will sees this and misunderstood that she loved Jack. Jack escapes the chain but at very moment kraken came and Jack confronted him and jumps into his mouth to kill him but instead drags Black Pearl to the Locker of Jones. Jones discovers his heart was missing from the chest. Meanwhile, Norrington reaches Port Royal, presenting the heart of Jones to Beckett. Will, Elizabeth, Gibbs and some of Jack’s crew members reaches Tia Dalma’s house, if they wish to rescue Jack which they agree. Tia Dalma on their agreement said that they need a captain who knows the seas and a resurrected Captain Barbossa appears.

Review: As first part of the Movie was a blockbuster hit so much was expected from this part and to the expectations, movie rose up very well. Johnny Depp’s performance was highly charismatic. Bill Nighy performance is also its all time high. Special Effects of the movie are awesome, how the Davy Jones tentacles were made, how the fish like whole crew and many other specials effects were very good. Story of the movie is very unique and holds its audience together all the time during the movie. Direction of the movie was good. As a whole, movie full of entertainment with a mixture of adventure, fantasy, awesome special effects and good performance of Johnny Depp and other cast of the movie.

Stars given: 3.5 out of 5.

Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl

Name: Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy

Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Gore Verbinski (Director)

Synopsis: Governor Swann and his daughter, who is 12 years old, Elizabeth, were travelling to Port Royal, Jamaica through a ship; they see another ship totally destroyed with a young boy as a survivor called Will Turner. She sees a gold medallion and hides it which Will was wearing, as she fears that people will accuse him as a pirate. The crew then sees a little glimpse of a ghost ship called Black Pearl which disappeared in the mist very quickly. 8 years later when Norrington become Commodore, he proposes to Elizabeth who now is an adult. Elizabeth faints was she was wearing over tight corset and fell into the river. A mysterious pulse appears from the Gold medallion. Pirate captain Jack Sparrow wants to steals a ship sees Elizabeth falls and saves her but Norrington recognizes him as a pirate and ordered for his arrest. Jack manages to escapes from there. Hiding in a blacksmith shop Jack fights with Will. Jack was knocked unconscious and was arrested and hanged next day. During the night, Black pearl appears and attacked the Port Royal as to answer the medallion’s call. In search of medallion, Elizabeth was captured. She asks for Parley. She told them not to attack Port Royal in exchange for the medallion and tells them that her surname is Turner. Barbossa agrees to stop bombardment but very cleverly finds loophole in agreement and takes Elizabeth and the medallion with him.

Will, who love Elizabeth so much, tries to persuade Jack to help him when Norrington refuses to take help of Jack. Will strikes a deal with Jack, as Jack has to help him rescue her and in exchange for that he will get Jack out of this jail. Jack accepts that, only after hearing that the surname of Will is Turner. Will and Jack very cleverly take HMS interceptor and move to Tortuga and with the help of Jack’s old mate Joshamee Gibbs the can recruit a crew. After the recruitment of crew they sailed for Isla de Muerta where the pirates make a stop. On the Quest, will come to know that Jack was once the captain of Black Pearl, searching for Aztec gold, but Barbossa Jack’s companion started mutiny against him and left him on an Island with one pistol and a single shot. But Jack somehow escapes from there and kept that pistol and the shot for 10 long years to kill Barbossa. The very treasure they found was cursed but Barbossa and rest of crew didn’t know that. So in the moonlight they become immortal skeleton and that is their true form. The curse can only be ended when each coin of that treasure with each pirates’ blood should be returned to chest. William “Bootstrap Bill” Turner, Jack’s only supporter gave a coin to his son so that the crew should always remain cursed. Knowing this Barbossa tied William to cannon and thrown overboard but came to know that to end the curse Bootstrap blood is also needed. On the Island, Barbossa throw the last coin in the chest and drop off her blood in the chest under the thought that she is Bootstrap child, so that curse can be lifted but curse remain unbroken. When Jack and Will saw this, Will believes that jack will betray him, knocks him down and try to save Elizabeth by him and saved her, leaving Jack behind. Jack and Barbossa meet again. Jack try to strike a deal with Barbossa that he will give Will back to him and in exchange for that he can have pearl but Barbossa rejects that and pursue Interceptor by himself with his crew. When Barbossa captures him, Will reveals that he is the son of Bootstrap Bill and demands release of Elizabeth and the crew of he will kill himself and he cannot lift the curse. Barbossa agrees to that but again finds a loophole in that agreement. He freed Elizabeth and Jack on the same island where he left Jack 10 years ago. Will was taken back to Isla de Muerta by the Barbossa to end the curse. Elizabeth asks how Jack escaped last time and came to know he strike a deal with the some people and bartered his escape with rum.

Elizabeth burned the rum in hope that Norrington’s ship will see the fire and came to their rescue. When rescued, Elizabeth asked Norrington to save Will but after initial refusal by Norrington, he accepts to save him only when Elizabeth proposes her to marry her in lieu of saving Will. Norrington locks Elizabeth in a cabin for her safety and return to Isla de Muerta. Norrington plans an ambush on Barbossa and his men as Jack will go inside and persuade Barbossa to form an alliance with him. Jack’s plan was shattered when Barbossa ordered to attack HMS Dauntless under water. Jack escapes from the Cabin and boards the ship to save Will from Barbossa. Jack starts fighting Barbossa. He killed Jack but later on came to know that Jack is also cursed as he has stolen one of the cursed gold coins. Norrington came to know that his ship is under attack and go back to the ship and attacked the cursed pirates. When Barbossa attempted to kill Elizabeth, Jack shot Barbossa and tossed his gold medallion with his blood on it to Will and will drop the last two medallions with his own blood as well into the chest. As on now, Barbossa was mortal so he died. Barbossa’s crew as now too become mortal surrendered. Jack who emerges with victory were also arrested and condemned to death. On the day of Jack’s hanging, Will attempts to rescue him. Jack sees a bird of one of his crew men understand that his ship the Black Pearl is near and jumps in the water. Governor Swann pardoned Will and allowed Elizabeth and Will to marry. Jack’s crew pulls him on the ship deck and appointed him as the captain of the Pearl. Jack looks at his compass while singing “it’s a pirate life for me”.

Review: The movie is one of the best blockbusters ever seen based on pirates. One of the epic movies based on pirates, ships which is full of fantasy and adventure. Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush were performances were charismatic and emphatic. In addition to that performances of the rest of cast were also damn good. In the movie, full focus was given to almost every character that was introduced in the film and everyone performed his character in the movie up to his level best. Story of the movie was unique as it is based on Walt Disney’s Pirate of Carribean. Direction of the movie was excellent so was the background music. A great movie is the one where every part of the movie is almost at its level best like the actor’s performance, the direction, Cinematography, editing etc. and in this movie it has which makes this movie one of the great one. Movie as a whole one of the best movies made on pirates full of adventure, fantasy and a lifetime performance of Johnny Depp. “Hats Off.”

Stars given: 4.5 out of 5.