Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Disney may have found a replacement for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and it certainly sounds better than another Johnny Depp-led installment of the franchise. The Pirates of the Caribbean series was a big hit for Disney, with the five films earning a combined box office total of $4.5 billion .
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Additionally, the Pirates of the Caribbean films have experienced a notable drop in quality over the years. While 2003's The Curse of the Black Pearl currently holds a fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 80%, Dead Men Tell No Tales is stuck with a rotten score of just 30%. In fact, the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie to accumulate a Rotten Tomatoes higher than 50% was 2006's Dead Man's Chest, which managed 53%.
Space Mountain Can Use The POTC Franchise As Its Template It Can Also Learn From Its Predecessor's Mistakes The Pirates of the Caribbean movies may have run their course, but the franchise still works as a good template for Space Mountain going forward. At their heart, The Pirates of the Caribbean films are adventure stories, with each installment delivering a new sea-based caper. Space Mountain could essentially copy this formula but with a space setting instead of the sea.