Hollywood at its worst.

Rating: 2/10 (24 November 2006)

I can see how some teenagers or even younger people can like "Dead Man's Chest", it has some really cool effects going on and the story is easy to follow. On several occasions i had to remind myself that i wasn't in fact watching a new Star Wars movie with loads of funky looking aliens, and that's not a good thing in a movie about pirates, IMHO. Cool effects and costumes perhaps, but too little effort has been put into making the story or the characters that interesting. It's like Star Wars and Indiana Jones but without a hint of soul. I would have been more forgiving if it was 1.30h long, 2.5h is just too much for the little material they really have. This is a typical "high budget but zero interest in originality or story"-Hollywood movie. It left me very disappointed.