[PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES screens Friday April 13th at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium.]
Review by Pete Roche
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES was better the first time out, when it was called INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. As with the third JONES film, the action in STRANGER TIDES
centers on a multinational race to find an enchanted McGuffin that’ll
render its bearer immortal. There’s even a “wrong cup” drinking climax.
Review by Pete Roche
The
third sequel to the lucrative Disney franchise finds our favorite
seafaring, mascara mutineer Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) bullied
into joining his sometime-girlfriend Angelica (Penelope Cruz) on a
search for the Fountain of Youth at the behest of her voodoo-villain
father, Edward “Blackbeard” Teach (Ian McShane). Blackbeard wants a
swig of the magic water because some fortune teller somewhere predicted
that a one-legged man will kill him soon. Hey, an ounce of prevention….
