Take Care, this show very frightening to younger children!!

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2006)

Last night my family attended a showing of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" We had been looking forward to it, in fact my son's, ages 13 and 18 had wanted to attend the first showing at 12:01am on 7/7. Unfortunately all of us ended up disappointed. It was just not the show the first one was. You could tell that a bunch of studio execs ran around after the first one made so much $$$$ yelling we have to have a sequel and FAST. The plot is strange but not in a good way. It is choppy and worst of all it Drags......Drags.....Drags. There is a scene with some head hunters that is funny but it just goes on too long to the point where you want to say OK how is this going to end already. There are others like that as well. Another thing I think is important to say is DO NOT bring young children to see this movie. It may be Disney but it's PG13 for good reason. Right from the start where you see crows picking at the eyes and skin of prisoners in cages to the sea-monster attacking the ship it is very frightening for children. I myself, and I'm far from a kid, jumped back in my seat several times. On the way out of the theater I heard a child of about 6-8years old tell her mother, "I'm going to have dreams tonight that will make me wake up screaming." The mom laughed thinking she was being cute but the girl said seriously, "No mom, I really mean it!" There were fun parts, don't get me wrong. Johnny Depp was wonderful as always I just don't think he was given the best script or direction to show off his Jack Sparrow to the fullest.