Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Corrected entry: In the movie Jack gets the compass from his former captain when he is dying in the battle with Salazar. In the second film we saw that Jack got the compass from Tia Dalma/Calypso.

Correction: At some point in time, Jack lost possession of the compass. He later bartered it back from Tia Dalma who'd acquired it.

raywest

Corrected entry: At the end of the movie Henry sees his father coming towards him with the Dutchman visible behind him. Its sails are completely down. The scene changes to Henry walking towards his father and then back to his father walking towards him. The Dutchman's sails are now secured up.

Atucker293

Correction: The first time Henry looks into his spyglass and spots the Dutchman we see many members of the Dutchman's crew aloft in the rigging lining the yards and furling its sails, and the second time Henry looks into the spyglass those sails are still being furled by the crew just as Will appears. Then five shots later, when Will joins Henry at the top of the hill we see the partially furled sails. No problem with continuity.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: The "Pirates of the Caribbean" films are set in the mid-1700s (http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_series). A trouserless Jack Sparrow is asked by another man, "Where are your pants?" According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, "pants" as a shortened form of "pantaloons" did not enter our language until 1840.

Correction: It is a very common film convention to use modern language in place of old fashioned language so the audience understands it better.

Corrected entry: In this movie, it's established that Salazar is released because Jack gave away the compass. But in the second movie, he gave it to Will and Elizabeth, and in the third movie to Cutler Beckett. Wouldn't it have freed Salazar then too?

Friso94

Correction: He'd only loaned its use previously, while maintaining ownership.

Phixius

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Continuity mistake: Near the beginning of the movie, when the young adult Henry attempts to stop the British Captain from sailing into the triangle, Henry is subdued by the Marines. The British Captain accuses him of treason and rips both of Henry's sleeves down from the shoulders. The next camera view is from slightly further back as the British Captain commands the Marines to take Henry below and Henry's sleeves are still intact.

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Henry: I saw her ankles.
Captain Jack Sparrow: You would've seen a lot more if you kept your cakehole shut.

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Trivia: The severed heads in the guillotine basket are of the film directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.

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Question: What happens to Will's heart after the curse is broken? Last we saw it, at the end of "At World's End," Elizabeth had possession of it and promised to keep it safe. Did it just spontaneously return to Will at some point?

Answer: There was never any explanation other than Elizabeth kept it in the chest. As both the Elizabeth and Will characters are rumored to return in POTC 6, the question may be answered in that installment.

raywest

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