Over the weekend, HMS Bounty, on the first stop of her four month European tour, was boarded by buccaneers on  the Barbican in Plymouth.   Plymouth’s “Pirate Days” coincided with the release of the latest Disney ‘Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, “On Stranger Tides.”   The Plymouth Herald noted, “An authentic Captain Jack Sparrow look-a-like – albeit not Hollywood star Johnny Depp himself – joined HMS Bounty’s Captain Robin Wallbridge on board.”    HMS Bounty was featured in a previous movie, “Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man’s Chest.”

The most recent iteration of the movie franchise, which opened on Friday, has earned a Rotten Tomatoes rating of only 33%, the lowest of any of the four “Pirate of the Caribbean” movies.  Our 14 year old in-house reviewer gives it a slightly better rating, opining that “it was better than the third one, but not as good as the first two.”