10 Fourth Movies That Ruined A Great Trilogy
6. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
The film series that made being drunk and English cool again, Pirates of the Caribbean exploded onto the scene in 2003 with the force of a cannonball.
With a pre-scandal Johnny Depp at the helm and a wide variety of supporting characters onboard, the Pirates movies dominated the box office and pop culture with their first three releases; The Curse of the Black Pearl; Dead Man's Chest; and At World's End.
The final film concluded the love story of William Turner and Elizabeth Swann, as Will took his place as captain of the Flying Dutchman. Not before getting in one last swashbuckle with the missus though - wink wink.
To everyone's surprise, a fourth film was released in 2011. Starring Depp and, uh, well, that was pretty much it from the original trilogy. No Will, no Elizabeth, no Cotton's parrot.
Sure, the likes of Gibbs and Barbossa survived, but the film didn't feel right without its deep supporting cast. It felt like an add-on, and a meaningless one at that.
Well, it had a meaning - to plunder our purses of our hard earned dubloons. Which is exactly what it did.