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[Dirty Duck]

Rewatched Pirates of the Caribbean 5 last night. I obviously knew it was the worst of the bunch (though I enjoyed it enough when I saw it in the cinema around release) but having watched all 5 in quick succession it really is so much worse. Johnny Depp is awful in it. The new characters are wooden. The writing lacks a lot of the wit the others had. Even the score feels off as it lacks any 'new' sounds and is just Zimmer's protege using leitmotifs Zimmer made for the previous films. It's also got a serious case of sequilitis, feeling the need to revisit or overexplain aspects of the other films. On Stranger Tides is so much better it's crazy, I respect it for doing a smaller scale story after the sheer scope of the previous sequels and it was all the better for it.