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Yo-Ho-Hum: Johnny Depp Returns For More 'Pirates'

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is almost definitely the best fourth sequel ever made to a movie based on a 50-year-old theme park ride.
Johnny Depp in <em>Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales</em>.

Twenty-nine real-life years passed between and a film about the scion of Rocky Balboa's rival-turned-friend. The span dividing the original from its latest sequel, is less than half that. But life moves faster at sea apparently, because the ersatz, angular hero of this fifth cruise — 27-year-old Brenton Thwaites — is playing the adult offspring of lovers Keira Knightley (current age 32) and Orlando Bloom (40) from the initial trio of pictures. In this chapter, Bloom's character has been placed under a spell that confines him to the ocean as a slowly-rotting sea creature. Only

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