Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

"One improvement this time is the dropping of the superfluous non-pirate characters played earlier by Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. (...) It is long, expensive and bombastic (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"A welcome corrective, reviving the fun, feather-light frivolity that any film based on a Disneyland ride ought to exhibit. (...) still doesn't make much sense, but it's lost all pretensions that it should, and looks poised to plunder massive worldwide coin." 

"Sparrow is back in excellent form for his fourth adventure in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, which is more serious in the hands of a new director, Rob Marshall, and thanks to Penelope Cruz it's also a good deal sexier" 

"Stranger tides? Stranger than what? What's strange, or fresh, about any of the mechanical diversions on offer here (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)" 

"The more sequels spun off, the clearer it becomes that one movie about these swashbucklers would have suffice (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"Pirates 4 is infected with the repetitive action and blathering incoherence that scuttled its predecessors. Marshall deserves props for putting the "show" back into the Pirates business. But face it, he's polishing a giant turd (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"Another five-course meal of cinematic fast food (...) This is eye-catching and forgettable in the patented Bruckheimer manner"