This is Just Like Walking The Plank

Rating: 1/10 (27 January 2007)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Review: After a lackluster first, we get a sequel. I was not too hot on the first, but I got the chance to see this for free. I took it. Why did I do that again?
Pirates 2 is not a good movie. This movie suffers from the beginning. We get no character development, we get a convoluted plot, and some truly unnecessary scenes. Depp is back as Jack here. However, Jack is not as nearly good here as the first installment. The humor here was not as focused and at times lame.
The action here is not good at all. There is a scene in which Keira Knightly fights like Aragorn from LOTR. She somehow fights like this. Yet in the first movie, she was helpless against the pirates. No explanation as to how she fights like this at all. It looked ridiculous! There is a really annoying scene with some inane sword fighting on a giant wheel. While the wheel was spinning, they kept on fencing! This was so lame on so many levels.
This movie also suffers from being way too long as well. Over two hours of this? This could have easily been a 80 minute film. I do not know if that could redeem this.
The acting here was forgettable. Only Depp was acting here. Bloom is still trying to hard. Knightly is just not good. The villains here look rather lame. The skeletons from the first movie were at least cool looking. The CGI on the Kraken was not well done. The Kraken looked bad and fake at times. The CGI was not something to be proud of.
The Last Word: Bad. Though not a great movie, Pirates 1 was at least a little fun. Here, this is a mess. Pirates 2 does not deliver at all. This was at times more of the same with some added crap to the mix. Skip this movie.