Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (12A)

Alas, this latest in the saga isn’t so much a reboot as a regurgitation, one that brings back Orlando Bloom and – briefly – Keira Knightley and gives them an adult son who weirdly looks the same age as them (he’s played by Brendan Thwaites, who at 27 is only five years Knightley’s junior).

Johnny Depp is back too, of course, replenishing the coffers as Cap’n Jack Sparrow, the drunken pirate whose Keith Richards-meets-Buster Keaton swagger was funny and innovative first time round but now resembles a turn from a particularly self-indulgent street performer.

Elsewhere, Paul McCartney has a star cameo as one of Jack’s relatives, Javier Bardem is the cursed villain with magical powers, Geoffrey Rush’s once villainous Barbossa comes out of retirement for nebulous narrative reasons, and the patchwork mythology continues to make no sense.

But if you’re willing to pay to see the fifth instalment of a movie that began as a theme park attraction you can’t really complain about being taken for a ride.