I love him. Check out Galaxy Quest if you haven’t seen it. Very good little sleeper movie
I wonder if there aren’t Galaxy Quest vibes to it. They didn’t have any money, so a $57 bazillion Disney bucks budget for special effects was never in question. So Pirates of the Caribbean, it ain’t, at least visually.
But if you don’t have big bucks, you make up for it with script, acting and direction. The studios have gotten sucked into a very high cost production model, and that’s part of the doom loop.
One reviewer mentioned ... spoiler alert ...
... the teachers using improvised Mars Attack type blasters to momentarily “brick” their students’ smartphones. I don’t know whether this was when they were trying to interrupt the scrolling long enough to actually teach something, or to buy a few seconds to make their escape.
That could be pretty funny if it’s handled well. But apparently the audiences were laughing even harder at the darker storylines ... and a couple of them are indeed very dark. But remember: Gore Verbinski started the third Pirates movie with a very long scene depicting the hanging of a ten year old boy who had been taken captive at sea and pressed into service as a cabin boy on a pirate ship. Which made him a pirate under British law at the time. And this was in a Disney movie.
Galaxy Quest vibes? Maybe.
He was also good in a movie called Mr. Right with Anna Kendrick and Tim Roth. He plays a hitman that dances.