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movie review - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I have no idea how this mess of a movie got released. It looked interesting enough in the trailers, but by the ten minute mark I felt more like I was being patronized or perhaps insulted than anything. It's a tired, stitched-together pastiche and the actors look like they were going through the motions. Seriously, the star looks like he regrets being there.

And since when are mermaids vampires? Was that always the case? "Luring you to your doom" could indeed include draining your blood, I suppose, but then why pursue notoriously awful-tasting humans when the sea is literally full of fish (at least at the time that this movie was set).

Not recommended. See the first of this series if you haven't already but pass on this one.