Despite the mixed critical reception — many lamenting a predictable script and the absence of Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley — audiences worldwide turned out in droves. The film grossed over $1.045 billion, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2011 (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 ) and the highest-grossing Pirates film of the entire series when adjusting for inflation.
After the epic — and some would say overstuffed — trilogy that concluded with At World’s End in 2007, Disney faced a dilemma. How do you continue a swashbuckling saga that had already sent its hero to Davy Jones’s Locker and back? The answer, for 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides , was a deliberate reset. Gone was the sprawling ensemble cast of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. In their place was a leaner, more focused narrative centered squarely on the franchise’s magnetic core: Captain Jack Sparrow. index of pirates of the caribbean 4
The first crew is led by a ghost from Jack’s past: the ruthless, manipulative Angelica (Penélope Cruz), who claims Jack broke her heart. She sails under the flag of the terrifying pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), a man who wields supernatural swordplay and commands a zombified crew. The second crew is a Spanish expedition, determined to destroy the Fountain for religious reasons, and a British one led by the persistent Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who has shockingly traded his peg leg for a letter of marque as a privateer in King George’s navy. Despite the mixed critical reception — many lamenting
The film also introduced a few new faces: a captive missionary named Philip (Sam Claflin) and a captured mermaid, Syrena (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey), whose tragic romance adds a melancholy note to the adventure. How do you continue a swashbuckling saga that