This is a video essay / retrospective on the entire Pirates of The Caribbean franchise, spanning from Curse of The Black Pearl (2003) all the way to Dead Men Tell No Tale (2017). Generally speaking, this is a beloved franchise, though there seems to be great divide on Gore Verbinski's second and third films Dead Man's Chest (2006) and At World's End (2007). No movie is without its problems but I believe those first three movies are all great. In this video, I make my case for the Pirates Trilogy, acknowledge their faults, and continue to discuss the cracks that began to surface later in the franchise, and how those cracks eventually went on to destroy the franchise, leaving it irreparable...