Rebooting retro, 80s kids» cartoon franchises as
blockbuster live actions movies is all the rage these days, but without fail every one that rears its ugly head possesses an inherent disconnect from the brilliance of its source material.
Before getting into how spectacular the
action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the
blockbuster from plundering to the bottom of the ocean), it must be said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea whose story the
movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal of the
movie for all characters is finding said artifact for different reasons, by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all about that plot element and are just
living in the moment of Jack Sparrow and company battling an army of decomposing, undead ghost pirates led by Captain Salazar.