Waste of time -go see "Lady in the Water" instead

Rating: 1/10 (4 September 2006)

After seeing this film and being totally disappointed and bored, I went home and watched the original "Pirates of the Caribbean". It was magnificent, witty, rich in the values which make a film a classic.
However "Dead Man's Chest" is just plain awful. Where were the original writers? All on vacation somewhere else? These guys had no real plot and chose to fill the time with really valueless retreads from their own lives and much better films. I believe that: 1. More than one in the group had a gerbil who rolled around in a wheel.
2. Someone had watched the marvelous Douglas Fairbanks' classic "Black Pirate" film and lifted the ship boarding and sword fighting sequences (here done with less daring do and swashbuckling).
3. Someone was enamored of all the "neat tricks" that computer graphics made possible.
My advice - don't waste your time. This is a placeholder for what we all hope will be a much better sequel that at least equals the first vehicle.