Oh goody, a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean (POTC) movie. I'm not sure I'll ever bother finding out what is so strange about the tides in this one as the reviews have been largely crap and I was bored after half of the first one. No idea how or why I ended up seeing the two ear and eye bleeding sequels. Maybe I really have no willpower of my own.
The one thing that did improve after the first film (nominally by Klaus Badelt, but how come Badelt is never credited with "original POTC themes" in the later, Zimmer scores?) when Zimmer took over to deliver some occasionally jolly accompaniment. On Stranger Tides is more of the same, exactly what you'd expect; action music that sounds like Gladiator (really, Hans, something else, please?) and lots of Captain Jack's theme. Unfortunately, some of the whimsy of the theme is lost as it's ramped up too far, too often.
One significant redeeming feature is the inclusion of some gorgeous guitar cues performed by Rodrigo Y Gabriela (evidently Heitor Pereira is busy these days). The only downside is that they result in the album sounding like two scores mixed up; one intimate, Hispanic, the other trad Hans Zimmer. Still, it makes for a pleasing rest. The album is almost half remixes and other crap, best avoided. Fun enough and worth a punt if you like the previous POTC scores, but hardly essential.
Pieces of eight accepted at Amazon if you want to acquire it. Or they might exchange it for your parrot.*
*They won't, the lily livered bastards.
2 comments:
Its fun you inmediatly review the bad-ass album right away!!
Cheers my man!
P.S the tie worked!! O.O
Well no time like the present. Need to keep review numbers up I think!
Glad the tie worked. I like that that won't mean anything to anyone else...
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