Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Blu-ray

10 reviews for Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Blu-ray

1. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   James McDonald – July 25, 2025

   4.0 out of 5 stars

   Jack Sparrow and the Fountain of Youth

   Walt Disney Pictures presents and Jerry Bruckheimer presents:Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger’s Tide (2011). Rated PG-13. Running Time: 2 hours, 17 mins. Directed by Rob Marshall. I watched this on Amazon.com Instant Video using my Amazon gift e-card balance. Returning: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Kevin McNally, Keith Richards, Greg Ellis, Damian O’Hare, Randy Herman, LeJon. Jack Sparrow has been on a journey searching for the Fountain of Youth. However, today, he is posing as a judge in a rouse to try and save Gibbs (Kevin McNally). Knowing Gibbs would end up in the paddy wagon, Jack quickly removes his judge clothing wearing his pirate clothing underneath and gets in the horse carriage with Gibbs. He says he paid the driver to get them outside of London. The plan backfires and they end up at the palace of King George. The King Richard Griffiths) requests Jack look for the Fountain of Youth for His Highness as Spain is already ahead. The King assigns Jack a captain. It is Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). Jack has a fit when Barbossa tells him he has lost the Black Pearl ship. Beware of beautiful mermaids. Also in the cast: Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Judi Dench, Stephen Graham, Gemma Ward, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Juan Carlos Vellido. After the end credits, their is one more scene.Johnny Depp was the age of 47 during filming. Filmed at Haleiwa O’ahu, Halona, O’ahu, Kalaeloa, O’ahu, Honopu Beach, Kaua’i, Kalalau Valley, Kilauea Falls, Kilauea, Kaua’i, Ha’ena, Kaua’i, Waikapala’e Wet Cave, Ha’ena, Kaua’i, Hawaii. Puerto Rico. Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey, King’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Old Royal Navy College, Greenwich, London, England, United Kingdom. Pinewood Studios. Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Pedro California. Universal Studios. You might enjoy

   Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Special Edition)

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   Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)

   (2003).

   Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)

   (2006).

   Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Single-Disc Edition)

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   (2011).Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).Update: Pirates of the Caribbean 6 is being planned. Johnny Depp has signed on and Kaya Scodelario is contracted.
2. 

   Rated 4 out of 5

   Shannon L. Yarbrough – July 25, 2025

   4.0 out of 5 stars

   Nothing Strange About it! Great Addition to the Series!

   If you ever needed proof why you shouldn’t listen to critics, the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, part 4 in the series, is it. Part 2 and part 3 received quite a thrashing from critics despite still cashing in pretty big at the box office. So, there’s no reason why they would treat part 4 any different. But that’s just it. It is different. Without Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, whom you won’t even miss having in this film, you should expect a new storyline and new characters and that’s exactly what you get. Barbossa and Gibbs are back, but other than Captain Jack, Jack the Monkey, and even a cameo from Jack’s father (Keith Richards), you have a whole new cast of characters.The film picks up with the same plot where the last one left off, with the Fountain of Youth being the focus. Captain Jack escapes the gallows with Gibbs only to discover someone is impersonating him and getting a crew together to go find the fountain. The imposter turns out to be Angelica Teach (Penelope Cruz), the daughter of Blackbeard (Ian McShane) who wants to find the fountain to save her father from a doomed prophecy.Angelica and Jack apparently have a past love interest together and she tricks him into joining the crew because she knows he has the map and that he’s been to the fountain. But to get the spell of the fountain to work, they’ll have to collect certain items that are needed, including the tear of a mermaid. So, the movie becomes a race for Blackbeard’s crew, the Spanish, and the English, to collect the items needed and get to the fountain first!Blackbeard is a colorful and well played evil pirate. You can expect the same entertainment that you got from Davy Jones and Barbossa in the previous films. Cruz definitely holds her own in the cast of men. Depp is Jack through and through, prancing about and always cleverly escaping trouble. And Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa again is up to his old conniving tricks, undercover on the English side, despite having a peg leg now.The movie provides lots of fast paced action mainly in the form of sword fights and doesn’t rely heavily on special effects like the last film. And then there are the mermaids! The intense and evil beauties which provide a large part of entertainment in the middle of the film, and even a small romantic subplot that grabs your attention.There’s an equal amount of time spent on land and at sea, and although the movie had a slow start as it set up the plot, I would almost say this one was better than the last one. If you are a fan of the other films, you will definitely be entertained and think that this film is a great addition to the series.

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3. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   A Mac – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Stranger storyline in stranger tides

   The storyline in “stranger tides” if handed as a screenplay would be hard to credit.Fountain of youth – mermaids – pirates – curses – galleons on mountainsides and skeletal corpses comfortable in bed.Stranger than reality certainly, but done such with such flair and aplomb, attention to detail and quality dynamics within the cast that it simply draws the viewer along for the duration, almost a couple of hours of enthralling escapism.A few of the priciples are still on cast from the first “pirates”, but there’s new faces as well. All work together to pull of the movie.The sets from old London to and abondoned beached ship work very well, the attention to detail is superb and the comic lampooning of England’s mad king George is even managed in an understated tastefully hilarious fashion.This rates high on the list when compared to the other “pirates” movies, and if you even remotely enjoyed the others you’ll probably agree this was worth both the wait and the price.As to price, the underlying and very subtle message of the movie is that there is a price to pay for everything, even immortality.To tell any more would be tell too much of the storyboard, buy, get the ice-cream out the freezer and enjoy them both.
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   Rated 5 out of 5

   TAS – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Originally Wrote:”Disney Sucks!”Today I Write:”Disney Rules”(see update)

   ORIGINAL REVIEW: 1/5: “Rating is for Disney, not the movie itself. While other studios are generous with digital copies being of HD quality, Disney continues to be unbelievably cheap with SD quality digital copies (as was the case with the digital code for this movie). Unless a Disney movie states clearly that the digital code is HD, I will not purchase it. Also, in protest, I will NEVER purchase a digital copy of a Disney movie on iTunes or anywhere else. Disney is obviously hoping you will buy the same movie in several different formats just to make their cash register ring. How greedy can you get. Good thing Disney lags almost all major studios these days on the quality of their movie offerings. If it wasn’t for Marvel movies, Disney would be stone dead in the business world of quality movie production.”UPDATED REVIEW AS OF FEB. 25, 2014: 5/5: “Today, Disney launched DisneyMoviesAnywhere. When I registered at that site and linked that site with my iTunes account, it not only gave me “The Incredibles” in HD for free, but it also upgraded to HD the following Disney digital movies which I had in my iTunes account in SD format: (1) this movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; (2) Marvel’s Iron Man 2; and (3) Marvel’s The Avengers. Also, when I entered the Disney Movie Rewards codes for Alice in Wonderland, Tron: Legacy and the Lone Ranger on Disney’s new site, it automatically gave me the HD versions of those movies, whereas, before, I was unable to redeem such codes using iTunes (the digital codes for the first two movies had expired long ago and the digital code for The Lone Ranger was redeemed on vudu.com and did not work on iTunes). The bottom line is that Ultraviolet has really taken off and UV digital codes very frequently redeem in full HD, not SD like Disney previously did through iTunes. Disney and Apple apparently have teamed up and have decided to jointly promote an aggressive alternative to UV. We customers are the beneficiaries of this competition. Since I now have this Disney movie in HD in iTunes, I am once again a happy customer and, for that reason, revised my rating accordingly. HINT: You may need to “sign out” of your iTunes account on your iPad and then sign back in for your linked “SD” Disney movies to appear in iTunes in an upgraded HD format.”

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5. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   robert king – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Great movie

   Great movie
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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Christopher James Mercer – July 25, 2025

   4.0 out of 5 stars

   Better, but not the best

   I am 40 years old. I was in my early 30’s when Pirates 1 came out. I loved every moment. I’ve seen it 30 times, easily. While people are different, obviously, I don’t understand how someone doesn’t just love that movie. Original, fun, funny, well-acted, great effects, great plot, great twists and turns…just…great.P2 had me worried early. The scenes on the island with the cannibals…the first time I saw it…I remember not really being into it. But that ends quickly. On further viewings, it doesn’t bother me as much…but mostly because the rest of the movie, I think, is even better than the first. It is the Empire Strikes Back of the series. It leaves us in a dark place. Everything comes to a head perfectly…and then…just leaves us. And that ending…takes us right back to the Disneyland ride. It’s a great movie. If I rank these movies on a 1 to 10 scale, the first is a 10. The second is a 10.5. The third, however, is an 8.I had concerns about how they were going to go about the start of the third with the Depp’s cliffhanger in the second, and those concerns were validated. I just didn’t like it. The opening action sequence was great, probably the best start of all of the films, but it quickly goes downhill in Davy Jones’ locker with the crabs and more. It doesn’t really make sense, it doesn’t flow, it takes too long. The second half of the movie has too much back and forth talking, but not in a good way. It does come together at the end, but it’s too late. Tried too hard to bring the series to a close. I give it an 8 overall, despite a strong start and end. 90 minutes in the middle that did a lot wrong.So, we come to On Stranger Tides, the fourth movie in the series, and one that doesn’t suffer from having to pick up the pieces of the last movie (half of the cast is gone). Like the second movie, it starts badly. The stuff in England is not great. The chase scene ends…well, no spoilers, but what a great coincidence. And the trap door…a coincidence. And on and on. It just seems like the first 20-30 minutes of the movie, while reacquainting us with Sparrow and establishing some bit of story, just fits too tidy due to great reaches. Also, the OTHER movies were about Will Turner and Sparrow was the middleman. Here, he is the lead, and that’s a different movie. He isn’t supposed to be the hero. He’s supposed to be the accidental hero, the guy that mostly likes to do right, and does it half of the time by accident and half of the time because he gets forced to. Here, he’s the good guy. It’s a change. But, again with the slow start, I have to say that the back 2/3rds of the movie was great this time, better than the third movie. Some of the ending was a surprise and seemed weird, but overall, this movie started weak like number two and got better sooner, just didn’t have the better ending of number three and certainly not the overall sense of 1 or 2. I give it a 9, but that seems to be way better than the critics. I have only seen it once (versus 30 times for the first, ten for the second, twice for the third), but I will watch it again here on Blu-ray and think it will be better.An average Pirates movie with Depp is still better than most movies that come out. Ignore the critics, watch the flick.

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7. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Scott Rowan – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Great movie

   Great movie
8. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Barry Memory – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   A little bit confused…

   Brian Nallick wrote, “The first half of the movie is VERY heavy on action with little bits of dialog in between the chaos.” This is the part I don’t understand. I must have purchased a different movie that had been mislabeled with the same title. The version that I bought was completely different.True there was action enough to sate the action lovers among us but my version was heavy on dialog in the first half. The dialog, in fact, was so prevalent and convoluted that I said to myself several times that I was going to have to watch this movie several times to understand exactly what was going on. Maybe that says something about my level of intelligence – I hope not.I read Mr. Nallick’s review before I purchased the movie and was expecting 75 to 90 percent action. I was dreading watching the movie because my favorite of the three original POTC movies was the third. (At World’s End) I know, this is not a very popular opinion because most critics seem to dislike the amount of dialog.But how about the fourth movie (On Stranger Tides) for which this review is being written? Was it good enough for a lover of the series (as I am) to enjoy it? Did it fall flat on it’s face like most sequels seem to do? Was it worth the price of admission?I loved it! Hands down, no hesitation, no argument. I’ll admit that I was, at first, a little disappointed that some of the characters from the other three movies were not present but like some of the other reviewers I forgot them completely soon after the first few minutes. No, I’m not talking about Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightley but some of the more colorful characters like Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Cook as Pintel and Ragetti. As far as I am concerned these two stole the show every time they appeared on screen. Also. I absolutely loved Bill Nighy as Davy Jones and Martin Klebba as Marty was great for making me laugh many times.As far as the dialog/action ratio, I feel that this movie was done right. I was never bored and always had my intellect stroked. I got caught up in the story and was glued to the screen throughout the movie.I always judge a movie by the way it makes me feel when it is over. When the credits started I immediately checked my feeling and emotions and gave this movie a thumbs up. I wanted it to continue. I had not had enough. If you are reading this review in order to make a decision about purchasing this movie let me admonish you to buy it. You will not be disappointed.Well, I’m going to go and put this DVD in the player right now and watch it again tonight. Does that tell you something?

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9. 

   Rated 5 out of 5

   Jenna Ashworth – July 25, 2025

   5.0 out of 5 stars

   Love it

   Great movie. Love the entire collection.
10. 

    Rated 5 out of 5

    Eli Whitney – July 25, 2025

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    twists and unexpected turns in this sequel

    an enjoyable sequel of the pirate series. I love how they took a myth and brought it to life. Some unexpected twists occurred that seemed a bit unusual, but they worked