Overly long, boring and lifeless

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2006)

I left the theater last night feeling cheated. The movie was 2.5 hours long, therefore, had plenty of opportunities to offer viewers what should have been left behind at the editing room. Trivial stories felt uncomfortably short to add anything significant to the whole picture but frustratingly long to be entertaining. That's what was appealing for the first one: clever, clean cut, and stylish.
Unfortunately, all those elements are all but present in the sequel. The jokes are cheap and only drawing mindless and cheesy laughs. Even Johnny Depp looks like he's not very good at imitating himself. Granted, his performance in the first one was phenomenal and above all, original (only as a pirate and only in the movie industry) but his acting in this one at times pushed it too far that it seemed old and tired.
Computer generated images play too much of a role here. Too much of a role that human acting almost appear insignificant. Somehow, it reminded me of The Lord of the Ring, just less impressive and less coherent.
Finally, the ending was so obvious as a cliff hanger that it was nonsense and, well, shameless!!
Overall, having watched the first one, I found Dead man's chest amazingly disappointing. The kid sitting next to me, for the most part of the movie, kept looking around like he did not want to be there. Well, that makes two of us.