Captain Jack is back! Johnny Depp's fellow leads Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom must have grown tired of the franchise, and director Gore Verbinski has left ship as well, but we get Penelope Cruz as Jack's former flame, and Geoffrey Rush is still aboard as rival pirate captain Barbossa (plus another little bit of Keith Richards as Jack's father, despite all the trouble he caused for the marketing department of the family-friendly Disney corporation last time around).

The story about the quest for the Fountain of Youth is inspired by Tim Powers' highly-praised 1987 novel On Stranger Tides which (as Wikipedia tells me) also served as a source of inspiration to The Secret of Monkey Island. I am not familiar with the book or the author, but have queued up some Kindle sample chapters now.

I know you are as bored about me talking about 3D as I am about 3D, but given the choice (like today), I am choosing 2D now.

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