In Theaters: May 26, 2017

There are TWO wide releases this weekend.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

It's been six years since we last had a Pirates of the Caribbean movie.  Is that too long?

In this film, the villain (Javier Bardem) is after Jack Sparrow in particular.  Did that also happen in the fourth film?  I don't know, I missed that one.  I guess when Jack was younger this pirate hunter was out to get him and Jack led him in to some kind of trap.  This resulted in the bad guy becoming very creepy, as seen in the poster.

Honestly, I have several friends that I know are very excited about this movie, but I don't get it.  I kinda think the Jack Sparrow character is spent!  I am glad, though, that there are those who disagree.  I almost always prefer when a movie does well.

There is something else I must mention.  The bad guy's hair in this movie floats like it's underwater, even when he isn't underwater.  It's kind of a neat idea, but it also continues a longstanding trend for Javier Bardem to have the most insane hairstyles in his movies.

in "No Country for Old Men"

in "Skyfall"

in "The Counselor"

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is rated PG-13 for sequences of adventure violence, and some suggestive content.

Baywatch (Thursday release)

For those of you who missed the 90's, Baywatch was a television show that ran for eleven seasons from 1989 to 2001 (the last two as Baywatch Hawaii).  At its peak it was one of the most watched television shows of all time, and it was aired in something like 148 countries over every continent except Antarctica.  But I would be very surprised if a Pamela Anderson poster didn't make its way down there.  The show also spawned a couple spin-offs and three direct to video movies.  For you younger readers, television was different back then, but in terms of popularity, think Game of Thrones.

Anyway here we are sixteen years later.  And as Hollywood is scouring its old properties for adaptation opportunities, Baywatch's time has come.

Dwayne Johnson plays David Hasselhoff's old character, Mitch Buchannon.  Newcomer Kelly Rohrbach plays Pamela Anderson's old character, C.J. Parker.  And Zac Efron plays a character that only appeared in a few seasons of the show, Matt Brody.

The premise is simple.  They're lifeguards.

Baywatch is rated R for language throughout, crude sexual content, and graphic nudity.

      Big Shot Critic