It's mostly fun, but in the end, it'll leave you disappointed.

Rating: 6/10 (31 July 2006)

POTC2-DMC features a lot of nice CGI work, some good one-liners, a lot of action - but it suffers from an incoherent plot and from the fact that it really is just a big teaser for part three. I recommended to my friends and co-workers to skip this one and wait for next year's installment.
Yes, Jack Sparrow is back in all his Captain-Jack-Sparrowishness, Davy Jones is well-done and well-played by Bill Nighy - but what is the point of the movie? The quest for the chest is drawn out much too long, too many characters are unnecessarily repeated from the first movie and there are simply too many loose ends left dangling.
Dead Man's Chest would've probably been better if it had been trimmed down to two hours. Let's hope that there are improvements in next year's installment.