What do you mean the spanish had no reason at all??? It's obviously for a Holy reason cause the guy literally says before destroying the chalices "Only God may give eternal life!"

I know I made three comments already but in defense of Barbossa joining the british navy is actually historically accurate. The british navy pulled a Salazar and wiped out most of the pirates and some pirates were welcomed into their crew. They joined willingly for their own survival. So Barbossa being welcomed despite being a pirate is no mistake.

The Spanish did have a reason to destroy the fountain of youth I think. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was because they believed that only god should be able to grant eternal life. "nOt tHiS PaegAn wAtER"

Stranger tides wasn't so bad, but the 5th one was outright awful

The Spanish explained why they wanted to destroy it. It's a blasphemy to Christian beliefs.

You nailed it on barbosa's missed potential. That would make blackbeard more threatening/interesting and the whole film more bearable to watch. Good review.

Ehh this one wasn't SO bad. Doesnt have the charm at worlds end had but the fifth one? THAT is the one that deserves to be shat on. I cant bare how they changed the lore of the compass. Jack got it from calypso but in that one it was given to him from his dying captain. That scene with young jack was ok, shows how clever and bad ass he can be. I just wish they didnt change the compass. It just completely ignores the other movies. At least On Stranger Tides is bareable to an extent and had some entertainment. The fifth one is just cringe cause of every consistency got thrown away. Also unlikable characters. Mainly Barbosa's daughter. I can't believe the words coming out of me Mouth but Elizabeth was better than her and she's a bit of a Mary Sue and even then she's tolerable.

Tell me about it. As a history lover, I was upset with how they butchered Blackbeard, and that is what ruined the whole film for me when I saw it in theaters. For me, Blackbeard should have been more like Barbosa from the first film.

I think it would have been better if Blackbeard himself was a slowly rotting zombie who barely survived Okracoke using black magic, and wants to drink the waters of the fountain to restore his vitality and live forever. An easy change and a much better and more obvious motivation than the whole Barbossa prophecy thing. And yes, I love the idea of the film opening with Barbossa losing the pearl to Blackbeard in a terrifying attack by night. But you know what would make it even better? If Blackbeard just straight up used the Pearl as his own ship instead of putting it in a bottle, since it's a much sleeker vessel than the film's lumbering portrayal of the Queen Anne's Revenge.

On barbossa sailing for the British; (historical) In 1717 King George the first declared the Acts of Grace, which allowed pirates to get pardonned for their crimes and follow a straight path (or sail as privateers under flag) in an attempt to diminish the amount of pirates on sea. Maybe a similar thing happened in the POTC universe (even though the king in the movie is King George the 2nd), and Barbossa could've seen this as an opportunity to get back at Blackbeard. Just speculation tho Also there's a certain irony in P4 having a good Jack but terrible script and co-stars while 5 has a decent script and co-stars but a terrible Jack

I do think it’s interesting that even though he “gave up”, Jack still had a vested interest in the Fountain. But the more he discovered about the way it gives life, courtesy of Angelica, Jack’s principles start seeping in because it requires someone else to provide those extra years of life.

This one is a guilty pleasure for me. I love it, but it looks like the cheapest one out of them all in my opinion. And smaller scaled, and the fountain of youth doesn't look impressive. I was expecting something beautiful, but okay. The Spaniards are chasing the fountain so they could destroy it for religious reasons. But, I miss the original crew members like Pintel and Rageti. Seriously, where are they after at worlds end? I liked Angelica and the mermaids and the escapes Jack Sparrow makes. But that's pretty much it. Oh, and Hans Zimmer is always good

The British actually had a need for privateers, and the tales of Barbossa made him an obvious choice.

oh well, RIP Lieutenant Groves shot by the Spanish while carrying Union Jack and Gillette in a sword fight, they lasted longer than Norrington and Thomas Beckett

POTC 4 is such a uniquely odd movie. The other POTC films were mostly original stories that just borrowed a few elements from a storyless theme park ride, but this one was an adaptation of a novel that had nothing to do with the franchise. I can’t think of a single other film like that. Jack and Barbossa probably don’t mesh well with the rest of POTC 4’s story because their characters were actually just shoehorned into it.

You would think the most expensive film ever made would probably be talked about a lot but no this movie more left in the background.

I still feel that these movies are not as bad as your microphone. Christ, I had to stop watching with your "SSSSSS" constantly drilling my ears.

lol the hate on this movie and the 5th one is ridiculous sure the 5th one isn’t that great but this was one does not deserve this hate

What disappoints me in this film is that in the trilogy before the world building was amazing you really felt the world was lived in but in this one and the one after you feel like that has been drasticaly toned down and they barely connect to what came before, jack didnt seem to have a goal in this movies and literally got kidnapped and forced to be in the narrative, blackbeards motivations are bizarre he will be killed by a one legged man so he needs the fountain to avoid that ? Im assuming if youre younger youre not gonna be immune to being stabbed by a one legged man or by any man with a sword for that matter. And it just feels like blackbeard came out of nowhere, like where was he in the 3rd movie since he is this big pirate that all pirates fear ? If he was this big player i would assume he wouldve played a role in the big battle that decided the fate of all pirates in the 3rd movie. They couldve made a cool connection to davey jones to explain that absence, What if blackbeard was a big pirate years ago that commanded the seas with everyone fearing him for years and his big army of pirates owing all of that to a deal he made with davey jones just like jack did for his black pearl, but unlike jack when it was time to pay up blackbeard runs away to land giving up his pirating ways forever afraid of davey jones and never going back to the sea so he wont face him, showing the parallels between him and jack where one faced there fear and defeated the devil while the other ran away like a coward and like what jack wouldve become if he did succumb to his own fears like he almost did. Fast forward a few decades later a year after davey jones is dead and theres a vacuum in power that needs to be filled, with blackbeards only reason thats keeping him away from the sea having died he can finaly come back and rebuild his army that he once had to take over the seas again, but after decades of waiting the man has become to old and needs to recover the years that he has lost and thats why he goes for the fountain of youth. You can split this story into 2 movies even with the first ending with blackbeard recovering his youth and the second one having him want to be the pirate king, since before when there was no king he needed the court to vote him in which wouldve never happened but now that there is a king they can add a rule in the narrative that a new king can be crowned after killing the old one paving the way for elizabeth to reenter the narrative and will to come back to protect his wife in the 5th movie and the bretheren court returning not wanting to serve under a tyranical rule of horrors under blackbeard like the years prior where he ruled the seas, with the climax of the 5th movie being between blackbeards rebuilt army vs the bretheren court and all their army under king elizabeth all while jack is jumping around from side to side manipulating the whole situation so he can get back his black pearl as well as come to terms with the immortality that he always was looking for

Above all else, this film suffers from the lack of Gore Verbinski in the director's chair. Nothing really cements how much his particular voice made this franchise work than watching some hacks trying to recreate it. It just doesn't have the same energy.

PotC4 was the most expensive movie??! HOW?? Then what is the justification to reducing the main cast so much if they had the biggest budget? Why does the movie looks and feels so much like a Direct-to-TV Disney Channel film?? If they had the biggest budget why did the they decided to do such a smaller film compared to the first 3 entries instead of making it bigger and better than AT LEAST the first 2??? This movie is a big case of money laundering, is the ONLY thing that makes sense for me, cuz otherwise where all that money go??

The easiest fix for this film would be Jack wants the fountain because he still wants immortality even though Will got it in the prior film, and since it's the only way left for other national powers to be able to challenge Will at all over the sea also seek the fountain as a means to make their own immortal military. Blackbeard could also be wanting immortality as a parallel to Jack's situation in the second film but demonstrating a completely different approach to it would help a lot.

The first three pirate movies NEVER relied on actuall historical pirates it instead used them as inspiration for their own fictional ones. Like speaking of blackbeard, there is a pirate in curse of the black pearl who's clearly based of blackbeard his called Jacoby and is the one with the bombs and the SMOKING BEARD! just like Blackbeard would've. Elizabeth Swann is also probably inspired by someone like Anne Bonny and Mary Read and Barbossa's names is taken from Barbarossa ''redbeard''. Pintel and Ragetti mention Morgan and Bartholomew as the writters of the Pirate Code as a nice little reference. But no HISTORICAL Pirate ever showed up in the trilogy and I would think that if Blackbeard did exist in this universe he would probably be part of the Brethren Court. I get the sense that the historical pirates were almost legends to our fictional characters like their time has long passed. Historically inaccurate but this entire Universe is clearly supposed to be FICTIONAL!

No,no,no,no,no.... What ruined the frenchie was as you said the 5 one. Zalasars revenge was a guide on how to ruin a franchise. But I do agree with a lot you talk about here too

I may be bias because I've seen the movie literally like 200 times but I feel some of your points may be invalid

Omg... i dont know but maybe you had to pay attention at history classes maty! The feude between England and Spain was real in that time, Katholics against Protestants. Actually Pirate 4 is pretty good as a film, manny refferances to real life events, Ponce de Leon for example was a real figure who was looking for the fountain of youth in real life, and thought it to be in now days Florida. Also if u watch the film closley you see that Jack actual has been there beffore, only not inside where the fountain was, because he did not know the procedure with the chalisses. And he was allone at the end of At World End. So this might be the reasson why he did not care about it, he just could'nd done it allone.

Wouldn't Blackbeard be a pirate lord if he's supposed to be so powerful then where tf was he at the brethren court?

Decent review but GOOD LORD FIX YOUR MICROPHONE

It is very reasonable for the Spanish to destroy the pagan fountain for multiple layers of reasons: 1. They are devout Catholics of the classic Iberian fanatism, and as openly stated, this fountain might grant something for an inhuman price that faith grants by lifing virtueously. 2. In the same spiritual reasoning, there is Command I: "Thou shall not have other Gods next to me". 3. Traditionally, all non-Monotheistic religion but even Islam were taken for devil-worshipping paganism, especially the religions of Asia and the New World. 4. This is even more interesting: IF the "pagan waters" would work, this prooved the existance of other deities next to the abrahamitic Lord God. The whole fundament of the (Catholic) christendom would collapse by an instant, being prooven wrong or at least not fully monopolic. This would destabilize Europe as a whole, but especially shatter the whole ideology the Spanish built their empire on. There, it must be destroyed.

Put Stranger Tides’ Jack into Dead Man Tell No Tale, and you would’ve had a great movie

Weird audio pop at 9:03 Oh wait I should’ve checked when this was posted lmao oh well

I disagree. The last too were not bad.

A y yall heard how he pronounced phenomenal 🤣 his delivery throughout the video extra

This movie is still a masterpiece compared to the upcoming 6th part.

the 5th one was worse

barbossa's transformation of the average pirate is actually complete in poc 4 just without the parrot although he had that poc 1 in jack the monkey. i still like poc 4 more than 5.

Am I the only one who thinks Calypso and Barbosa should have been the villains of pirates 4?

Pirates were free and somehow that was undone by the british? And the fountain is no where near as important as the heart because in dead mens chest Jack, Will and James desperately needed the heart while in this movie no one really needs the fountain drink the only people who truly need it are Blackbeard and Angelica but even then they don't really need it either Why is Angelica even doing this? Does she want to die? Blackbeard is doing just fine nor does he have any reason to fear anyone it just doesn't work at all

This film doesnt have two of the main characters from the first 3

This film was good, maybe not as much as 1-3 but it's still interesting. 5th one was a mess mostly because of any respect to the canon

This movie was the most expensive film of all time and it was shit 💀

The firsy 3 were directed by the same person. The next 2 were different people

I will understand why disney wasted this franchise by making over produced low effort crap. I just dint get it. Pirates couldve been as big as star wars or harry potter but they wasted it.

"direct to DVD..." Exactly my point. This movie is so bad, and the side characters are sorely missed. I can't name a single actor of the Spaniards and Ian MC Shane....goddamn he was wasted. But in the video for the 5th u call this one better, now u have just said this one is worse, which it is

Bro u actually speakin facts

Film 2 and 3 were so big and epic... and than this piece of trash came along. This could have been epic. But it's even shot like a TV movie. Blackbeard could habe been one hell of a threat, but he is a wet fart (his ship is cool though, his Zombis on the other end suck compared to Davy Jones Crew).

Great review

Pirates of the Caribbean wasnt about jack it was about Will

This one was good.... except for Penelope Cruze. Blackbeard was amazing. Jack was great. The fifth one was bad. The Spaniard was just a poor villain.

Ian McShane kind of saved to movie enough

Actually no, I loved this movie, it's my second favorite after The Curse of The Black Pearl 🏴‍☠️

On Stranger Tides is essentially the Indiana Jones 4 film....the one we just keep trying to forget they ever made to begin with. I will admit though...I actually enjoyed the 5th film.

You're nuts. I've enjoyed them all

The fifth one was good

Yeah you're wrong. And you don't know what you're talking about and I enjoyed every one of them👍