Should i watch pirates 4 in 3d

It's significant only in that it's clearly meant to set things up for a fifth movie. It's rated PG Is it really not appropriate for younger kids?

I can't be certain, but it's my guess that it's the mermaids that prompted the inclusion of "sensuality," seeing as how they're topless -- although of course something usually hair prevents the audience from seeing anything beyond what you'd see on a trip to a family beach. The "innuendo" bit, of course, refers to the byplay between Jack and Angelica, and there is plenty of it -- especially since the characters are supposed to have a romantic past together. That being said, I'd think most kids 10 and up won't be too scandalized by it -- and a lot of it will sail over the heads of kids younger than that.

The violence level is about the same as in the previous PotC films, though the zombies not the modern animated-corpse zombies, but the older voodoo zombies that are essentially people whose minds are being controlled by magic are a bit frightening, and the big mermaid scene is pretty scary.

Yes, it really is. These three groups are the Spanish -- who seem to be in the film not as characters but as vehicles to move things to the next plot point -- the British, led by Barbossa, who has lost The Black Pearl and his right leg below the knee and has somehow managed to get in the good graces of King George III, and Blackbeard and his crew.

Jack and Angelica are part of that last group, by the way, although Jack of course gets involved with Barbossa as well. Anyway, there's a map to the Fountain which Jack has, but only briefly, and we never find out where it came from.

And of course Jack's magic compass will, and does, point him there anyway, so one wonders why the map would have been useful to him in the first place. Of course, in the film they never actually tell you what land mass they've ended up on, so it could I suppose be just about anywhere.

Then there's a ritual that needs to be conducted in order to invoke the power of the Fountain, involving two silver chalices and a mermaid's tear. Where this ritual came from, and how anyone knows about it, are never explained. If so, how? The action choreography doesn't help, sure, but the 3D is a major detriment to every single one of these scenes, and reason enough alone to opt for 2D instead.

Because of the aforementioned brightness issue I occasionally took off my glasses while watching On Stranger Tides , just so I could see what was going on. If you're watching a really good 3D movie that really takes advantage of depth, you'll barely be able to look at the screen without glasses-- as a general rule, the blurrier things look without the glasses, the more eye-popping the 3D will be when you put them back on.

It may not surprise you, then, that watching Pirates without glasses was simply a brighter version of what I saw with them on. There were many shots, especially when it was just focused on characters talking, that looked virtually the same. It's the ultimate proof of how little the 3D adds here.

The real danger of getting sick while watching a 3D movie is when you're watching something post-converted-- there's something about all those artificially applied layers and the too-fast action that can make a lot of moviegoers feel nauseous. Pirates doesn't have the post-conversion issue, but there are still a few moments where the background layers don't quite seem to be synching up; I have no technical explanation for it, but sometimes I found my eyes swimming trying to figure out what I was looking at.

And then there's the issue of straining your neck trying in vain to actually see what's going on through the murky glasses, but that's a health issue that's at least preventable.

Final Verdict: When the 3D craze inevitably ends, we may look back to Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as an example of how 3D can be terrible even when you shot in 3D from the beginning. At its best its allows you a brief thrill when the filmmakers really embrace the gimmick; at its worst, it keeps you from understanding the basic elements of a given action scene, and is so useless in enhancing what you can see that you actively resent the studio for forcing the higher ticket price on you.

On Stranger Tides isn't really all that much worth seeing to begin with, but no matter how curious you are about the latest native 3D effort, you should seek this one out in 2D if at all possible.

Katey Rich. Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News. Or maybe just those mermaid scenes. Disney released On Stranger Tides into 4, theaters in the U. The Summer Movie Season began its blockbuster rollout overseas with both Fast Five and Thor opening first abroad and establishing their box office bonafides before coming to North America. Disney did the same — and foreign saved this pic. Russia is where 3D continues to play huge and star Johnny Depp showed up for the premiere. It held strong in 2nd place overseas with what the studio said were smaller drops than expected.