User blog comment:Captain Dashing/Phillip Swift: Who Cares?/@comment-3106883-20120404120716

I can't say that I am a fan of Philip, but he did offer something to OST that no else really did: interaction with Blackbeard. They were going at each other the whole movie. Half of Blackbeard's dialogue must have been with Philip. I think it is one of the flaws of the movie, that there wasn't more interaction between the main characters. The way all the main characters interacted was one of the joys of the first three movies.

I enjoyed the interaction between Jack and Angelica much more than between Philip and Syrena. However, the contrast between the streetwise and savvy Jack and Angelica and the clueless innocence of Philip and Syrena was worth having.