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*SPOILERS AHEAD*
Three things you need to know:
1) The origins of Jack's compass, his alias and even his hat are exposed in this film.
2) Salazar is a exciting villain, much cooler than Black Beard and even Davy Jones.
3) Will's son tries to save his father from the curse of being stuck on the flying Dutchman.
All three of those are BLOCKBUSTER pitches.
This movie is another solo ride like The Black Pearl or Stranger Tides, they sort of learned not to make two-parters anymore like Dead man's Chest and World's End. This movie greatly honors it's own mythology and relics of lore and builds upon them, upon it's own world.
The entire thing opens with a child tying a stone to his feet so he may drown, touching down upon the sunken flying Dutchman ship. The ship rises from the waters so the boy may breath and Will Turner confronts his son, telling the boy to move on with his life. The boy declares there is a treasure which may save his father and that the boy will enlist Jack Sparrow for help.
Cut to the next scene, a proud town having a celebration. They are exclaiming that they have a new safe vault and that their island's bank is the most protected bank possible. They open the vault to show the goods and inside is a drunken sleeping pirate, enter Jack Sparrow.
A perfect opening scene for Jack which introduces what is to be enjoyable, well written comedy and dialogue for the rest of the film,
The scene advances into becoming playfully ridiculous when the horses on the other side of the building, which are meant to carry the vault through the walls with ropes and ride off, end up over-powering the entire building. Yes, the building comes off the rails of the foundation and is pulled away through the town by raw horsepower.
It's like Fast and Furious 5, pardon the pirates goof and brought the entire bank with them instead of just the safe.
There is a mixture of main characters during this mess of a situation.
For example a educated woman whom is believed to be a witch runs into Jack during her own escape. Apparently she has something to do with the same treasure Will's son needs. In fact Jack is about to need the same treasure to save his own skin, this is explained later in the film.
She can be funny but she is also kind of meh, I mean anything to do with the treasure is boring. However, every scene is full of energy, definitely not a snooze feast. It's just if it wasn't for their individual reasons for needing the treasure I'd be like whatever. It's just not the most interesting part of the flick. In fact the two new characters, Will's son and the appointed "witch" are only really interesting because of their ambitions and backstories not entirely their personalities.
So anyway with the high adventure and silliness it feels like a Pirates movie. I'm not going to give you the entire plot, but that little taste may hopefully restore some hope in you that this isn't just another throw away sequel cash grab. I feel like the director and writers DID try.
The magical compass of Jack Sparrow is important, down on his luck (literally) and after being ditched by his own crew he gives away his compass for a mere bottle of rum. Thing about this magical relic is, it will turn on you if you betray it. Instead of leading you to where your heart desires, it will bring your worst fears to you.
Salazar was a Spaniard captain with a hatred of pirates, he butched dozens of pirate ships in his time to purify the seas. That ceased when he was outsmarted by the boy Jack Sparrow, and even after death Salazar was trapped in a geographical area as a restless spirit. That is until Jack had thrown away the compass. This is also the time period Jack got his name and his famous hat, don't want to spoil everything though.
So much happens in this film with it's moving parts, including the return of Barbossa whom actually sought out the freed Salazar to hunt down Jack for him. It's all because he wants this legendary treasure for himself, everyone wants this boring treasure, this trident thing. (Well boring until you realize what it is in the end of the film.)
The Un-dead shark/running from the ghost pirates charging across the waters scene was full of so much suspense.
Johnny Depp did a great job with his off-script comedy during the wedding bit. The Black Pearl returns and we find out a secret of Barbossa.
I saw a review from a popular guy on you-tube, Chris Stuckmann, he said the beginning of this movie was inspiring and the ending was enjoyable but that the middle was lame. I have to absolutely disagree. The trident treasure talk isn't all that interesting but it's very fleeting, there is no long dull explanations. This thing moves so quickly, it has such potential and creativity especially for a fifth installment. If it wasn't for such bad ratings I'd say it was the franchise's second wind.
Maybe word of mouth will save it, but I think alot of people lost interest with the franchise over the years which doesn't help.
The last twenty minutes I will not spell out, this is more for those that have seen it and will understand the following.
1) Funny the "witch" girl's history/life purpose is a unintended mis-direction, but she definitely made something out of nothing.
2) Could have done without the ship's statues coming alive.
3) Sal really took a leap of faith in that trident to cover his ass for wreak-less stunts.
4) A important death.
5) The entire race to the island and then the show-down in the split of the sea was pretty damn good.
However, I find it hilarious that they pretty much devastated the underlining theme of all these movies with their curses. Does this mean the franchise is going in a new direction?
The ending is a mile stone in the series and would be a conclusion if not for the post credit scene.
The return of Davy Jones...
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