It was good.

Rating: 7/10 (6 July 2006)

Sequels are rarely as good as the original, although there are exceptions to that. But who can resist Johnny Depp strutting the decks of the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow in the new Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. If you have to be picky, I think Orlando Bloom is actually quite ordinary and Keira Knightly doesn't really have all that much to do. There's so much else going on.
And on it goes. It's 2 and a half hours long and you do come to a point where you think there can be too much of a good thing. Hollywood produces so much lazy rubbish, and at least they've put enormous effort into delivering in terms of script and in terms of special effects and creations. You're just leaping from one crisis situation to the next, with gorgeous characters.