One of the biggest downfalls EVER

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2006)

I was so excited to see Dead Man's Chest that I even ordered advance tickets to ensure I'd see it on opening night. God, do I regret that. The movie started out all right, I'll give it that. But...why did Beckett even WANT the chest?!?! For fame and fortune? The entire plot was so convoluted that the people sitting behind me were constantly whispering "Wait, WHAT?! What the hell are they talking about?!" And I agree. Beckett wants Jack's compass to find the chest (somehow the EITC plays into there....something about controlling the seas?), Jack wants the chest, Norrington wants the chest, Will wants the compass, Elizabeth wants the chest to get Will back, Jack wants the chest, Elizabeth, and possibly some more rum....And the entire sequence with the natives...why was that even there? It was never explained how they were marooned there or why they worshiped Jack as a god. Yes, there were some very funny lines in it, but a movie shouldn't have a half hour sequence for a few good one-liners. And the CGI...so overdone. In the first movie, you could actually match up the skeletons with the pirates, but Davy Jones's sailors didn't even look like REAL, let alone like people. And yes, I realize that hinting that they could look real is inconceivable, but the first movie at least had a degree of believability. It evoked empathy as well. The only real emotion evoked from me in this movie was a bit of sympathy for Will and his father, and even that was quite fleeting. The ending was quite cheap as well. The whole slow-motion ending, with Jack falling into the kraken's mouth with his sword drawn, determined to kill it as it devours him was very over-dramatic and overdone. And every person in that theater knew that Jack was not going to stay dead because there is indeed a third movie. And the final scene...'How far are you willing to go to bring him back?' Certainly not to the world's end, as Tia Dalma says.
Oh and Barbossa? He's DEAD. And should stay that way. Even though he kicked Davy Jones's ass in the villain department. How do you bring back the dead who was once undead? And who the HELL would travel to the ends of the earth to bring back Barbossa? It certainly didn't seem like he had many good friends in the first movie.