A patchy and overlong sequel but still full of humour and top-notch action.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 211
Fresh: 113
Rotten:98
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus: Gone is Depp's unpredictability and much of the humor and originality of the first movie.
Theatrical Release: 06-07-2006
Synopsis: The second part of a trilogy, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST is a fantastic tale of pirates, love, and the supernatural. Blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and his upper-class love Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) are... [More]
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy
Director: Gore Verbinski
Reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Top Critic
Lumpen direction, lousy writing and pouting performances aside, the worst thing about Dead Man's Chest is its interminable length.
07/15/06
Top Critic You might well need a bottle of rum to get through that two-and-a-half hour running time.
07/07/06
Too long, and too wrapped up in its various plot contrivances to notice it’s veering off course. But Jack just about pulls the wheel back, aided by Verbinski’s flair for cartoonish comedy action.
07/06/06
Top Critic As the film heaves from one muddily motivated set-piece to the next, McGuffins accruing like barnacles all the while (the sketch! the key! the papers! the chest! the heart!), it takes on the sinking feeling of a vessel adrift, sending out flares.
07/06/06
Top Critic Not quite as good as the first film, but it pulls it all together for a thoroughly enjoyable final act.
07/06/06
A complicated plot involving a mysterious key and Will's seafood-wearing dad fights for space between relentless action sequences in a film so overloaded that it threatens to capsize.
07/04/06
Top Critic Yes, there's a massive cliffhanger of an ending. And yes, it leaves us gagging for more.
06/29/06
As much as we might want to fall madly in love with this adventure, the disappointment is that it makes its pirates' lives seem just that little less attractive.
06/28/06
[This sequel] takes what worked the first time and redoes it only bigger and louder - in the process losing all the charm that made the first film so much fun.
07/07/08
As you'd expect from a sequel, everything that made the original interesting is amplified to within an inch of its life.
07/14/07
I had a ball watching the film as it careened from set piece to set piece, whether it be a chase scene, a sword fight or a battle on the seas.
05/31/07
Dead Man's Chest is simply something we've been missing most of this entire summer - a film that's truly alive.
03/24/07
No doubt will end up one of the most popular and successful sequels in cinema history, but like the small act that grows too big too soon, the initial enchantment has faded.
02/22/07
Just because you can do something does not mean you have to. Long and noisy is not enough.