Terrible, terrible disappointment.

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2006)

I'm giving it a 3/10.
So I'm not gonna lie, I was a big fan of the first movie, but the new one did NOT impress me at all... I was completely disappointed, and upset that I spent $10 to stay up till 2:30 in the morning terribly bored, when I could've stayed home for free and be equally as enthralled while watching the Home Shopping channel.
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is prime example of the terrible Hollywood sequels that are oh too common. It's more than obvious how the movie creators are trying too hard to appeal to the crowd, what with cheap one-liners from the first movie (the whole "where's the rum?" bit, etc), and more sorry attempts at comedy than sustenance. I mean, where's the plot? Instead of working on a story, they decided to give us warped farces of our old favourite characters. Elizabeth Swann is having stupid temper tantrums and is suddenly an expert fencer, Orlando Bloom's character is a melodramatic wuss trying to act all "I'm a romantic hero," and Jack Sparrow is babbling on, making no sense, and doesn't stop talking about the stupid rum.
From what I could tell, the creators clearly do not understand that special effects do NOT make the movie. It seems like they used the past 3 years exerting themselves to make grand special effects sequences, instead of focusing on a meaningful dialog, as well as general storyline. The movie bored me. And instead of sitting there thinking about the movie and the plot and what's coming next, I was sitting there thinking about how weird and bizarre and unrealistic the characters seemed. At least the first movie with the idea of that curse and all had previously mentioned sustenance in it. It gave the characters reason for going after something. Will Turner/Elizabeth Swann's love for one another is not enough to hold my interest.
All in all, this movie was a terrible disappointment, and was probably the worst movie I've seen in theatres since "The Village."