Cast Johnny Depp
Penélope Cruz
Ian McShane
Geoffrey Rush
Stephen Graham
Richard Griffiths
Sam Claflin
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Kevin McNally
Screenwriters
Ted Elliott
Terry Rossio
Director
Rob Marshall
Running Time
136 minutes
Crossing paths with the enigmatic Angelica, Captain Jack Sparrow is not sure if it's love—or if she's a ruthless con artist who's using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the "Queen Anne's Revenge," the ship of the legendary pirate Blackbeard, Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn't know whom to fear more: Blackbeard or Angelica, with whom he shares a mysterious past. (Walt Disney Pictures)
In martial arts movies characters occasionally cross a room with a cartwheel, there's no advantage to it they could get across the room as easily by walking but it adds a visual flourish, however if they went everywhere like that it would be bizarre. If the pirate movie version of that is swinging on ropes and sword fighting then Pirates 4 is bizarre. Everything was just so random and overelaborate, the preacher/mermaid subplot was actually the only at least moderately involving story I saw.
