User blog comment:J Fan/Dead Men Tell No Tales - Details: Story, Characters and Setting/@comment-25426315-20150519163825/@comment-25426315-20150523102522

Since the trilogy had been completed, and, regarding the cast, only 5 members were back, (3, actually, because, I guess they brought back Rose and Gilette just for a "need" of originality), and the director had also changed, then it was definitely certain that they should "kill formula", as Johnny said, and start over something completely fresh.

Indeed, the script of P4 was the perfect sequel, but I don't understand why they finally hired a choreographer to direct their biggest movie. Personally, I think that the best thing that Marshall did, was the presentation of Blackbeard, and I'm talking only for the first scene where he makes his appearance, cause Marshall didn't keep him as scary as he should be, in the rest of the movie. As for the Indiana Jones issue, do we really have to remind to the screenwritters that they originally started the script with Will as the main protagonist, and not Jack? I mean, the film is called "PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN", not "Captain Jack Sparrow". Just because of the hit that Johnny made to the audience, the screenwritters have, iconically, focused on Jack, but the story involving him, has been reduced, since the first movie. So, it was a smart move to focus again on Jack in the 4th one, but it's also a move of desperation, in an effort of gaining more money. In the first Pirates, Ted & Terry had written a script for a "regular" pirate, that wants to revenge his former first mate. That's EXACTLY why it worked out so well, because Johnny took their character and created his own. So, after seeing Johnny's performance, they based P2 on HIS performance, and not on their imagination. So, that makes him double funny and weird, doesn't it? And the same happens to P3, and P4, so a thirt dose, and a fourth dose, ending up being just ridiculous and not funny anymore. The reason that P4 made more than $1 billion, was just because everyone was interested in seeing what else could be done, since everything had ended, but the real "movie" fans, and not PotC fans, were dissapointed. So, movie makers do not actually understand that a sequel does not have to continue the story of the characters of the first movie. A sequel has to give messages, like the first one did, to make sense, to make the audience think and understand things, and in general, to make the audience learn something from the movie. All sequels of Pirates are just a continuation of the first one. And I'm not talking only about Pirates, I'm talking about sequels, generally.

So, to be finished, as Johnny said that he has high hopes for this one, I have, too, because this is probably gonna be the last one, (I hope not), and I guess they're gonna make a "real", decent movie, and not just something that the audience would just "laugh".