The Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Synopsis Exists, and It’s Unsurprising

In case you had forgotten, the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise will release another movie this year, but the synopsis really doesn’t have any surprises.

The pressure’s kind of on for Disney this year. After a record-setting 2016 at the box office, the only way to go is really up, which means more movies making more piles of money. As part of the go-round this year, Captain Jack Sparrow will return to the big screen in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.

Via CBR, here’s Disney’s official synopsis:

"“Johnny Depp returns to the big screen as the iconic, swashbuckling anti-hero Jack Sparrow in the all-new “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.” The rip-roaring adventure finds down-on-his-luck Captain Jack feeling the winds of ill-fortune blowing strongly his way when deadly ghost sailors, led by the terrifying Captain Salazer (Javier Bardem), escape from the Devil’s Triangle bent on killing every pirate at sea – notably Jack. Jack’s only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Benton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy. At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifull [sic] small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has never faced.”"

Check out the trailer below:

Does anyone else get the feeling that this is just effectively a game of Mad Libs with another of the films in the franchise? Jack Sparrow starts practically all of these films “down on his luck”. There’s always another pirate captain who wants him dead or gone. We could go on, but, well, you get the point here. At least Kevin McNally is back as Gibbs. Geoffrey Rush also returns as Barbossa.

Also, it feels vaguely wrong to replace Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner, even though their story technically concluded at the end of At World’s End.

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Should you still wish to see this new Pirates of the Caribbean film, it will arrive on May 26.