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Truth be told, I came into this film with a bit of prebuilt ambivalence. I have not cared about this series since the first film, and to be honest, you can actually treat the first film as a completely different universe from this (i.e. since when were there neanderthal men in Pangaea?).
The film suffers from even more problems than Brave (2012) which at least focuses all its energies on two main characters. Here on the other hand, there are at least twelve characters that are treated as main characters and about two dozen secondary and even more tertiary characters.
Almost all, and here really lies the problem, are voiced by supposedly A-list actors, although you would be hard pressed to name a great project most of them have been involved with in the last five years.
And the problem, just like Kelly Macdonald's instance in Brave (2012), is that most of the voices transcend the characters they are playing, and you're most concerned or entranced by the grandeur of the voicee than that of the narrative or the film aesthetic, which the series seems very much intent on decreasing the quality of as the films push through.
Yes the film is really funny. Yes the stylized characters are well done. Yes the plot is stupid (really, pirates!). But most importantly there are huge swaths of the film that are boring as all hell. My three and a half year old daughter was bored out of her mind in the middle of the film enough to ask to go to the bathroom three times in the span of forty minutes. And that's a shame, because kids will watch just about any piece of crap that's animated.
Although maybe not this one.
Wait five years until it makes it's way to network TV, unless you or your kids are a fan of this series or animated films as a whole, then catch it on DVD, it's really not worth the Blu-ray price.
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