For family-friendly properties, the movies are incredibly dark. It’s based on a theme-park ride with no discernible plot or characters, and pirates have been a non-presence at the multiplex for the past several decades. But to dismiss Pirates as a whole is to ignore the alchemy that director Gore Verbinski pulled off with his original trilogy, The Curse of the Black Pearl, Dead Man’s Chest, and At World’s End. According to Vulture’s David Edelstein, the newest installment, Dead Men Tell No Tales, isn’t much better. The fourth entry in the series, On Stranger Tides, was critically thrashed and has been largely forgotten. In the 14 years since the first movie’s release, it’s become easy to take the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise for granted. A mystical quest for the isle of Tortuga.
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