A Pirates Life For Me? Meh.

Watching the long extended trailer for 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' made me feel like it was going to be a mediocre Disney movie pushed out in order to make money from an extended franchise. Once again, another 3D scam. That's what I'll be calling them from now on; ''3D Scams'': Movies which are made into 3D for no reason but to get an extra 10-20 Dhs out of you.

The way the movie poster was made into 3D made people feel a bit exited at the fact that it was going to be in 3D. I took one look at the trailer and I knew it wasn't going to have much.

I felt the movie's script was a bit unplanned. For one, why was there a need to have the Spanish in the movie? Not only were they flat characters, they had little effect on the storyline for the screen time they had. It felt as if they were trying to push a Christian spiritual theme to the movie. From the king of England declaring how he "won't have a catholic king reach the fountain" to the priest on board trying to save the whole crew, and the Spanish making it all the way just to destroy the fountain saying "only god lives forever and allows such; Not pagan fountains" or something like that. I think the infamous 'Blackbeard' should've had a MUCH bigger role, it honestly felt like he wasn't very important to the story; come on! It's Blackbeard! But in fact none of the characters did. I missed the British Colonizer presence in the movie.

Notice how when Blackbeard was cutting into Jack's puppet he carved a trident symbol on his chest. I found it weird that I've seen that symbol in so many places including 'Planet Of The Apes' and the 'Quake' game series. Apparently it symbolizes 'The Devil's Pitchfork'. Was there a need for that in the movie?

It was a nice movie to watch and I would say was at least as funny as 'At World's End'. It deserves its 7.7 rating on IMDB.