Or "Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides".
I saw PC1 and 2. I didn't see PC3, as the consensus from everyone I know who saw it was about the same as ST6 and -10: "This really sucked."
But I digress.
Really, the only reason I can think of to go and see PC4 is to watch Johnny Depp make another pass at the role of Captain Jack Sparrow. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly are not in this one and they are not at all missed. There is a hint of a storyline that sort of is the glue for a series of action sequences. The musical score is overpoweringly loud; whoever set the audio levels in post-production had to be 3/4ths deaf.
In checking the times, PC4 is the shortest of all of the series. I felt that it was still too long. The best comment I overheard on that was when everyone was leaving; some girl said: "How long was that movie, a month?"
Unless you feel a need to see it on the big screen, this one is a rental.
In the previews, there was a trailer for a movie called "Real Steel", which appears to be a movie based on the game "Rock`em, Sock`em Robots". If that sounds incredibly far-fetched, remember that they've gotten four full-length movies out of an anamatronic ride at Disneyland.
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Might you be confusing Star Trek 6 for ST5?
ST5 was the absolutely terrible one about Spock's half-brother finding God at the center of the universe and involved Nichelle Nichols doing a fan dance.
ST6 was an allegory of the end of the Cold War, where the Klingon Empire nearly collapses and presses for peace with the Federation. When their ambassador is killed, Kirk is framed, resulting in a plot that's half political maneuvering, half detective work. It's definitely one of the strongest ST movies and shows the best aspects of ST.
ST10 did stink, though. It ruined the pattern of even-numbered ST movies being the stronger ones.
WP, it's possible.
Well, they are still making up movies based on the board games Clue and, wait for it, Battleship.
I learned that in the British version of Clue (called "Cluedo") they have the Reverend Green, while in the American edition he is merely Mr. Green.
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