You can touch me chest but not me booty!

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2006)

This past week I saw the midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest and found it rather mediocre. This film just didn't deliver as the first did. The comedy was much more sharp and edgy in the first film and it just wasn't as clever as the first. The biggest disappointment though was Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow. He was turned into a bumbling fool where as in the first go around he was a good pirate and captain though a drunk and ever so slightly burnt out. In this he's suddenly gone daft with no explanation, it was irksome. My favorite character from the series has always been Will Turner and he has been given a far meatier role this time on an expedition to save Keira Knightley's Elizabeth from imprisonment. He has to team up with Jack to get the Dead Man's Chest from Davy Jones. I must say that the special effects in this film were nothing short of astonishing! Davy Jones, a big octopussy lookin' thing, looked absolutely real and life-like constantly moving with excellent fluidity, yet you could still tell that it was Bill Nighy. His eyes had such a penetrative presence, he really worked for me, he was vile yet likable. With the poor script that was lacking flare, it was the special effects and fantastic action sequences that saved the film. In my favorite scene, three of the film's heroes are having a tri sword battle in what appears to be a giant hamster wheel rolling across the island's forest landscape. It was scenes like this that allow me to nudge my star ratting to a *** out of four. Where the first half was lacking, including a ridiculous and unnecessary island scene reminiscent of King Kong, the last half more than made up for in terrific imagery and entertaining action sequences. So over all I give it a very mild recommendation.