A Pirates Life for me

After my overwhelming desire on the train to London to get my Johnny Depp as a pirate fix, I made a trip to the cinema yesterday to get the big screen experience.

Pirates of the Carribean 4: On Stranger Tides is definitely a better film than the last one. I'm no film critic and certainly would never claim to be so this is purely my opinion (which is essentially what a critics review is anyway). Why is it so much better? There is no irritating Keira Knightly with her super skinny figure and ridiculous voice getting in the way. There is no Orlando Bloom attempting to be a kind and forgiving kind of pirate. Whilst to many people, these are serious downpoints, to me; definitely not! Just give me pure, unadulturated, Johnny Depp pirate :) The fourth film managed to go one better though and threw in Penelope Cruz pirate. Whilst I find Keira Knightly's 'rich girl with a pirate attitude' act far too much of an act, Penelope Cruz as a pirate is far more convincing and definitely way sexier! This even had me debating about who was hotter- Pirate Johnny or Pirate Penelope- can I have both please?!! mmmm that sounds like fun ;) Although it was all pretty stereotypical spanishy piratey, it was still damn sexy and the two of them together work way way better than Johnny and Keira ever could. Throw into the film the rugged christian sailor and the exquisitely beautiful mermaid he falls in love with and this film becomes far too full of attractive people and a set that would definitley be worth a visit!

When you have that many beautiful people to look at for just over 2 hours, I'm honestly not all that fussed about the plot but again, film 4 surpassed film 3. (my opinion only!). Whereas film 3 had me totally confused with an exessively twisted plot, film 4 went back to the old rule of keeping it simple. In a time when we have films such as Inception and Shutter Island thrust at us with their inconceivably knotted plots, it's pretty refreshing to have a film that starts at the beginning and ends at the end. Definitely worth a watch- even if it is just for the eye candy :)

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