Johnny Depp: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

5 That Sucked...

5. Captain Jack Sparrow - Pirates Sequels (2006, 2007, 2011)

While the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was, like the ride it's based on, an endlessly-fun ride, the same sadly can't be said for the subsequent sequels: Dead Man's Chest, At World's End, and On Stranger Tides.

Each one has been bogged down with increasingly convoluted side-plots that people didn't care about, and at least a feeling of the running-time sailing up-and-up (true for the first two sequels, especially the stupidly long At World's End, but On Stranger Tides is the shortest in the franchise).

At the centre of all of them is Depp, whose Captain Jack Sparrow is one of the main reasons the films continuously break the $1bn barrier. An argument could be made for him remaining the best thing in the films, but that probably shows how poor they are. Sparrow hasn't grown over the course of the films, and instead wheels out the same schtick, only now it's wearing incredibly thin. The character is a rock-star, but now he's one of those rock-stars who refuses to age gracefully; he was once Keith Richards owning the stage, but now it's more like Iggy Pop going topless in those car insurance adverts.