Good and very entertaining but has some mistakes to avoid a great rating.

Rating: 7/10 (8 July 2006)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest/2006/***
Main Stars: Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Bill Nighy
Am I the only one in the state of Florida that actually likes this film? Maybe so. The movie was definitely not disappointing. The people that didn't like it that much should think so to which is pretty much everyone. The movie was cleverly written and well-done special effects wise. The movie, however, switched between many scenes and that's what kinda ruined the fun for the scene you were first watching. It also flips over to the power-hungry ruler in Britain who wants all the ships for himself. Meanwhile we have Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) acting his usual self- drunk who owes a debt to Davey Jones (Bill Nighy), captain of The Flying Dutchman and the sea himself. Oh, but what does Jack owe? Why would I tell you and ruin the movie for you just like a local critic ruined it for me by telling in his article that there was a surprising guest appearance right before fade-out and actually gave the person's name away, that idiot. I would have preferred to see it myself, thank you very much. But it's over now and I saw who it was and, when you think about it, you could have suspected this person after the crew of The Black Pearl asked the question that made the person clomp down the steps of the tiny building which housed a woman that spoke horrible English. Like instead of saying "Earth" she'd say "Eart". Some things she said I didn't even understand because the stupid woman can't speak English very well! That made me mad but the story was not complicated. It was cleverly written as I already pointed out and well-done. However, it was not great because of the one reason of flipping between so many scenes when you were just starting to enjoy the first fight or confrontation and getting into the music which was originally composed by the brilliant Klaus Badelt who made the "Pirates" soundtrack so famous and taken over by none other than Hans Zimmer, the extremely odd German composer. Trust me, he's odd. I've seen the way he acts and he's a bit goofy. But he was of course serious for this film and did an extremely fantastic job. However, the film didn't seem to have the best directing. Gore Verbinski, the Polish director who directed the first "Pirates" movie and The Ring. Yes, an odd career isn't it. Two completely different films indeed. So he comes back to direct this one and doesn't pronounce it as much as he did in the first which he directed Geoffrey Rush (as Captain Barbossa) and did a brilliant job. Rush, a serious actor, did a wonderful job as being humorous and using humorous facial expressions. He also had that dry humor in his voice especially when he said "Why THANK you, Jack." Sparrow says your welcome. Barbossa replies, "Not you; we named the MONKEY Jack." Dry humor plus the facial expressions (mainly the bulging eyes) made him the star of the film which was impressive. This one was still impressive though with Bill Nighy (as Davey Jones) playing the villain very well although not very humorous, more evil and there's nothing bad about that. Then there's Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) being his usual serious self just like in the first film and is SUPPOSED to be married to Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) but the marriage was interrupted by this adventure of Davey Jones and the rest of his crew on THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. Bootstrap Bill Turner should I say? Nah. You find out about him and you will believe me. As you know already, Johnny Depp has something to give Jones and also, as I said before, I won't spoil anything for you because I'm not an idiot. Norrington (Jack Davenport), as you know from the first as Commodore Norrington, is also involved in this film but is only minor so nothing spoiled really. However, what he does is another thing and he does something significant toward the end of the film There's of course more to this 150 minute (2½ hour film) because it's so darn long but those are only minor details but details that are still fun to watch. Okay so some extra details are significant but my job is to give you the plot outline or gist of the film and of course tell you if I liked it or not. And I did like it but those flipping scenes; the not as pronounced directing; and some other minor mistakes in the script that didn't flow correctly only made it good. But you can already tell I liked it by my star rating. Movie directed by Gore Verbinski.