Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) by Yakusokunoji — 26 May 2017

A fantastic and entertaining action comedy worth being a part of the Pirates of the Carribean franchise. And given the movie's post-credits scene I have no doubt that a sequel or sequels is/are coming. The movie has some interesting takes that are new to the franchise such as background story expansion in a way that we have not seen before, bringing in a new breeze of air with characters that are now more relevant for major characters and not just with this but also with other parts of the plot takes elements and writes something new with them. The problem is though, this movie has several continuity errors and yes, they are continuity errors. You can "somewhat" explain them away as they are not 100% impossible but that would really just be a fan explanation as no actual explanation is given in the story as well as is it not implied or hinted or anything. The lack of details here just shows that several parts of the story just clash with already established lore because there was not given absolute focus to be non-contradictory (such as: Jack got his compass from Calypso as stated in PotC2 but here they show he got it from the former captain; Blackbeard's sword is shown to have its powers as it can free the Pearl but Barbossa for some reason unexplained cannot control Salazar's ship even though the sword can control all ships which was the reason why Blackbeard was able to turn the ships against their captains in the first place, kill the crew and get those ships, continuity errors about the trident and it is very very unlikely that Barbossa has a daughter that seemingly is about 20 years old - even unlikely if she would be about 30 years old - as the plot establishes that Jack knew her mother which would hint that it happened over 30 years ago as Barbossa was cursed 10 years before PoTC1 before he betrayed Jack -> as said, all of it can be somewhat explained, there are no full impossibilities such as Barbossa just returning to that woman after PoTC3 or "Blackbeard's sword cannot control supernatural ships" and "well, the captain got the compass from Calypso and Jack got it from him as well as is Calypso the Goddess of Sea/Sea itself so he still sorta got it from her", but you just notice that there are no actual explanations or hints for them given; it just ends up being non-canonical fan explanation). It is no game breaker as the movie is fantastic nonetheless but it is there.

Overall it is one of my more favourite movies of the franchise and brings some goods twists that I liked a lot.