It’s yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum as Johnny Depp and company lead another instalment of this Disney franchise, this time to the tune of Hans Zimmer’s jaunty score whose tongue-in-cheek character spills even to the credits where a piratical identification is given to each one of the production team.

It’s a fun soundtrack, too. Aside from the inescapable Zimmer sequences where his penchant for a thudding rock bass threatens to blow your speakers to bits, he offers a quirky theme on cello embellished by lower strings representing Jack Sparrow, and a muscular portrait coloured by use of pipe organ for the Kraken, a sea monster as remote from Flipper as one can imagine. A celesta introduces a simple tune for Davy Jones, much in the mould of the lyrical themes in Zimmer’s previous film, The Da Vinci Code, and a swirling waltz in the “Dinner is Served” scene. “Two Hornpipes” adds a whiff of ozone, then in “Wheel of Fortune” we’re back to a no-holds-barred dead-weight scherzo. “Hello Beastie” overstays its welcome but overall this entertaining score offers us more than a glimpse of Zimmer’s lighter side.