'Pirates of the Caribbean' sails into familiar waters - ***

Jerry Bruckheimer producing this series for the 5th time for Walt Disney Pictures came up with a totally different set of people to work on this possibly last episode. New directors, writers and composers try to work together to bring back the old charm of the first episode. Originally intended to be released in 2015, the film was delayed due to conflicts with the script and some budget issues. In other countries like the Philippines it is titled as Salazar's Revenge.

This is really about the search for the Trident of Poseidon, which was believed to be able to break all the curses at sea.  Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) wants it to save his father Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) from the curse of being bounded to the sunken ship the Flying Dutchman. Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario) wants it to know more about her father who left her as in infant with the book that includes a map that leads to the Trident of Poseidon. Together they partner with Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) as captain of the Dying Gull to help with the search.

This movie delivers a steady dose of action sequences and an impressive work on their CGI animation to match. It also tries to go back to the feels that the first episode has generated by adapting to what the original director Gore Verbinski has done.  Though the directors (Joaquim Ronning and Espen Sandberg) claim that they had simply executed what is, according to them on the 'impressive' script they had put their own Norwegian touch by involving more 'heart' and emotions into some scenes.  I am particularly impressed by the new characters in this story,  Javier Bardiem's Salazar is scary and vengeful , Henry Turner provides the heart in this film and Carina Smyth brings in a lot of emotions in this story while being strong at the same time.

After two episodes of this series I got tired already and did not watch the third and fourth.  I am even surprised that there is this 5th installment and there are talks that this film is just the beginning of the final episode.  I think I just simply lost interest in pirates and sea action sequences and it does not help that Jack Sparrow has been reduced to a drunken Mr. Magoo . Though the directors admit that they had made him like what  he was in the first episode which is 'not the main character' his character somehow became a nuisance to the other protagonists in this story.