PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST [2006] review

July 24, 2006 · Print This Article

I was looking forward to PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST very much, and left the theater sorely disappointed. How this movie set a new opening weekend box office record is beyond me. Yet it is no doubt a sequel, with the bigger budget showing in every frame, usually for the worse. No whimsey, no charm, no comprehensible plot. Way too much CGI, way too many Cracken attacks that all looked the same.

I liked the depiction of Davy Jones. Great mannerisms. And Orlando Bloom’s character grew up and took charge, and I liked the subplot involving his newly found father.

But none of those characters are why people went to see the movie. They of course went to see Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. Even he was off this time, lost in the scenery and CGI, not given any scenes to show his ingenuity and cleverness.

Will I see the third movie next summer? Probably, but I won’t be looking forward to it.

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