Clarifying the plot, even to those well-versed in what the Dickens is
going on by now, would be doing something the filmmakers themselves
never manage.It’s not so much a story as a single destination, to which
every major character is bound; the script goes on, and on, about what’s
to be found there. The fountain of youth, which Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), his old foe Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush,
like a tranche of old ham retrieved from the back of the fridge) and
everyone else seeks via treasure map, promises to rejuvenate one person
at the cost of another’s sacrifice, but only if the right two chalices
can be brought to it, a mermaid’s tear extracted into one of them, and
the usual elaborate machinations put in place to postpone the big finale
until everyone has bothered to show up.
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