The franchise contains many details you may miss unless you watch all the films in order, such as strange character arcs and the rules of the sea.

Let’s be honest: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the movie everyone kind of wants to forget. Is it bad? Definitely not, but it just can’t match the emotional stakes of the other films.

Pirate fiction was once universally popular across the Anglosphere, with novels like Treasure Island and Peter Pan becoming instant classics. The subgenre's popularity declined in the age of film and ...