{"id":6236,"date":"2017-05-31T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:07:11","slug":"review-pirates-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/review-pirates-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: \u201cPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n
 Part of what made the original \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d so good, is the fact that it came as a surprise and people generally had no expectations. Jack Sparrow was the loveable, drunk side character in Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan\u2019s story, something that, more or less, continued for the second and third films. <\/p>\n
\u201cDead Men Tell No Tales\u201d fell into the same mistake that 2011\u2019s \u201cOn Stranger Tides\u201d did by making Jack Sparrow the central character and completely overdoing it. What made Jack Sparrow great was his use in moderation, and \u201cDead Men Tell No Tales\u201d has no moderation at all. <\/p>\n
Jack Sparrow, teaming up with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan\u2019s son Henry and an orphan girl, sets off on a quest to find Poseidon’s trident in order to save himself from an undead Spanish captain out for his blood. <\/p>\n
Setting the plot of the film forward was painful. It required a series of unrealistic and almost impossible events that seemed to be a cop-out of any actually decent storytelling. This, plus a series of coincidental meetings with strangers with the exact same goal, puts the story into motion. <\/p>\n
\u201cDead Men Tell No Tales\u201d feels like a very small film. While \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d had beautiful, sprawling settings, lively ports and massive ships, the new addition jumped from CGI location to small-feeling ship to British township. There was no epic feeling of adventure in this film. <\/p>\n
The film relied heavily on formulas used in past films. Jack Sparrow being drunk and funny, a Will Turner-esque character, an Elizabeth Swan-esque character, a dumb and funny pirate duo, an angry British captain and an evil, scary, supernatural enemy. These are all things that have been done in each of the previous films, and \u201cDead Men Tell No Tales\u201d relied on that in the laziest way possible. There was nothing that made it unique. <\/p>\n
There are a share of hilarious moments; the entire opening sequence is fantastic and Paul McCartney\u2019s cameo is memorable. While other \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d movies had a serious tone, the new addition traded that for a slapstick comedy feeling. It paid off occasionally, but for the most part resulted in a boring and awkward movie. <\/p>\n
\u201cPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales\u201d is far from the spectacle that made the franchise loved. It\u2019s overdone, poorly written and ends the series as an example of why not to drag a good thing on for five unneeded movies. <\/p>\n
Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/p>\n
2\/4
\n+ A few decently funny moments
\n– Overused movie formula<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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