10 Movie Franchises That Screwed Up Their Final Part
9. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Surely we’ve had our lot for Pirates of the Caribbean now?
Look, the fifth movie is not actually that bad - it’s at least a significant improvement on the fourth that was so poor not even Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack could save the day, but Pirates 5 makes this list because of the way it screwed up the reintroduction of two of its biggest characters.
No, not Ragetti and Pintel (although they should have been brought back to at least try and improve some of the more comedic scenes). When the film was first announced, Disney suggested they were going big by bringing back Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley as doomed pirate and wife Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. Those who skipped the fourth altogether - and the unlucky few who spent their pennies on it - suddenly got interested again because it felt like it was 2003 all over again.
Alas, how wrong the enthusiasm proved to be. There's not much wrong with Turner’s return, but then there wouldn't be as it lasts just five minutes. We get one emotional scene of him reuniting with his son, and the second is his ‘emotional’ reunion with Knightley’s Elizabeth.
They embrace and they kiss after years of being apart from each other. And yet somehow, Elizabeth is not given a single piece of dialogue. She had been included in trailers but her return fell flat and you will be hard-pressed to find many clamouring for both Turners to be given any more screen time.