Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides [2 Discs] [Blu-ray/DVD] [2011]

This is an excellent movie. The visual effects will impress any enthusiastic movie aficionados. The story is well written, and the actors are best of the best, in every scene.This will easily go in the collection, of great movies. Thank you Best Buy.

4th installment was a little off but mr depp made it great. as a collector it was a must have

great story to get into, it's a pirate's life for me. i've never seen such intricate plot.

Jack sparrow. The pirate the alcoholic. The drama queen.

For anyone new to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, here is a list of all the movies in order of release: 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl 2. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 4. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales I would say that the first installment is the best of the bunch, the others not nearly as much. I did enjoy the fifth installment when I saw it in the theaters, but that may be a matter of preference. So the first and the fifth were the strong points of the franchise for me, and that was enough to make me purchase the in-between films just to round out the collection and revisit the stories. Overall, the series isn't bad, but if it can be helped, wait for the 2nd-5th films to go on clearance before purchasing - which they are now, except for the 5th (which was just recently released). The first one is well worth even at full price. Best Buy is the best place to get these because they have all the films readily available.

Not the best of the 5 pirate movies, plus it's missing the original cast members with the exception of Johnny Depp. As valuable to the series as Johnny Depp is, he alone cannot carry this film to the perfection we have seen in volumes 1, 2, 3 and, in my opinion, the best of the series, equal to "The Curse of the Black Pearl", is the fifth entry "Dead Men Tell No Tales"! Despite my disappointment in #4, buckle-on your boots, belt-on your cutlass, give a rousing ...yo, ho, ho, me hearties and board your ship realizing that only one disappointment out of 5 great movies is a pirate-story-loving-fan's bounty.....Enjoy, as I finally did, by rationalizing my purchase at Best Buy's excellent pricing....WAS NOT a disappointment!

Movie was enjoyable in terms of action and a fairly decent plot line. More enjoyable if one has seen the previous POC movies so as to be able to understand the main characters (Sparrow, Barbossa, Gibbs) more fully in context of this film. Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz both added flair to the picture, although in the case of the former it was a one time deal. The situation for Cruz allows for her to show up again in another POC storyline permitting (as does the fate of the preacher and the little mermaid). There were some loose ends in the plot (i.e. how did the Spanish show up at the Fountain of Youth, from where did the mermaid evolve, etc.) but all-in-all a fun movie to watch.

As the years seperate the first few Pirates films from pop cultures recent memory, On Stranger Tides takes on a singular quality that makes it feel more like an installment a la Indiana Jones or James Bond movies and less like a fourth wheel in a trilogy. Add in Johnny Depp's indelible Jack Sparrow, Geoffery Rush's delightful Hector Barbossa, with inspired performances from newcomers Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane, and you have yourself an entertaining adventure film that fits right in with other Pirates of the Caribbean outings.