One very Impressive Spectacle

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2006)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was a very big film. It was huge. So, the usual is done with Hollywood sequels here, more of the same, but bigger. And I felt it, it was quite a heavy first part of the film, lots of information and detail before the ball really gets rolling and the whole thing starts to flow. The plot changes all the time so would be frivolous to try to explain a plot that encompasses the whole film. Needless to say, Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan all get dragged into another adventure and meet friends and enemies, old and new along the way. The film is big, it's long, it's crammed with characters, some of which suffer due to the amount of screen time they get due to there being so many. But the film's appeal is in it's sheer spectacle, the sets and costumes and special effects are all of an absolutely incredible standard. This surely is the reason the big screen was made, and too see in there enhances the film to a great jaw dropping sight at times. Perhaps the only thing that the film didn't have going was a feeling for the characters, with so many of the new ones given screen time it was hard to feel when the main three got into perilous situations, or maybe that was just me. Pirates of the Caribbean 2 was an enjoyable, likable film, that demands a big screen viewing, but the main stars are the art and effects departments.