Captain Jack Sparrow is back with a new adventure and new characters - the legendary Blackbeard with his zombi henchmen on board the Queen Anne's Revenge, the Spanish Armada, a host of mermaids with the attitude of the vampire and with them comes the old comically sinister Captain Barbossa, this time serving as the privateer in the service of the British with the interfering British fleet, all heading towards the Fountain of Youth and the many secrets that surround it!
As always, plots intersperse and suspense deepens as each new scene unfolds a new secret. After Jack impersonates a judge to save a confused Gibbs from the gallows in the court of London, he is tricked and ushered in the royal dining room where he is charged with rumours of his lookout for a ship for sailing to the Fountain of Youth. A confused Jack, though improvises an escape but is soon being confronted by his father Captain Teague who warns his son about the Fountain's tests. He soon meets his old flame the exotic pirate lady Angelica who was found to impersonate Sparrow and soon she tricks him to join the crew of Queen Anne's Revenge captained by his father the Blackbeard - who uses voodoos and a host lot of magic to terrorize and keep reign over the crew. Blackbeard wanted eternal life and Jack had the compass to locate the fountain and thus they set sail for it.But two more groups were on their way. The first were the Spanish bent on destroying the Fountain as they considered it to be an abomination against God and the British to outrun them under Captain Barbossa who had a secret motive of his own which was to strike revenge on Blackbeard to whom he had lost the Pearl and his leg.
Magic dominates on board the Queen Anne's Revenge and the crew gets a taste of it while a mutiny initiated by Sparrow is turned down mercilessly by Blackbeard. Thus the terrified crew are lead towards the Fountain as both Spanish and Barbossa nears it, the former guided by a map and the later by Gibbs who destroyed Sparrow's map in a bid to save himself from the British and memorized it so as to strike a deal.
The saying goes that the water from the Fountain of Youth was to be drunk by two persons from two chalices of Juan Ponce de Leon and one must contain the tear of the mermaid. The person who drinks from the cup with the water and the tear will gain the years of the other that drinks from the second cup.
Blackbeard sets up a trap for the vicious mermaids and manages to confine one in a glass coffin but one of his prisoners, the missionary Philip falls in love with her and names her Syrena and attempts several futile tries to free her.
Angelica, in the meantime, showed Sparrow that Blackbeard had miniaturized and stored the Pearl inside a bottle and he conspires with Barobossa and leads him to Blackbeard only to meet him at the Fountain as the Spanish army marches in. A fight ensues as always and it remains to be seen what happens next.
The 3D effect was superb, it was only my second view of a full length movie and thanks to the director Rob Marshall, sequences are really intelligently designed for the full appreciation of the 3D. Sparrow's escape from the British Royalty, the climax, the waves, the fights and the sets all are vividly enjoyable in the extra dimension. This is the shortest film of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and though a compact one but seems a bit less on the adventure part as do the excitement during the finishing scenes. However, the sets at Hawaii were fascinating (equally fascinating as the Caribbean sets of the earlier chapters) and the background scores of Hans Zimmer inspires the magic of the franchisee once more and overall this Jerry Bruckheimer production of the Walt Disney Pictures is a must watch for the fantasy lovers.
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