Not much closure but still a wild ride...

Rating: 6/10 (11 July 2006)

As far as sequels go, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest is awesome. It is a step below the first Pirates, but that is just because the first Pirates compares with the Star Wars trilogy and the Indiana Jones trilogy.
Do I think that the third movie will be incredible? No doubt. The first two movies were wild rides but I think people liked the first one more (myself included) because it had a lot of closure. I don't think I could have found it possible to leave the original movie without a smile on my face. Sparrow gets his ship, Turner gets the girl, and people realize that it IS possible to be a pirate and be a good man.
The second movie doesn't have the same kind of closure that the first had. We don't really know Jack's fate, we are questioning whether or not who loves/lusts who, and it's blatantly obvious they are setting up a second movie. As if anyone who is a fan at all didn't know they were filming two movies at the same time, but still.
The third movie will have the same kind of closure the first one did and undoubtedly will be an incredible ride. Two genuine bad guys in Davey Jones and Captain Barbosa, we find out Elizabeth and Will's intentions, and of course Johnny Depp will undoubtedly be back as the legendary Jack Sparrow.
That said, Dead Man's Chest is a GREAT movie with the kind of action and plot development that has me anticipating next May with beated breath.