Much Worse Than The 1st One

Rating: 7/10 (27 July 2006)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is the long anticipated sequel of the 2003 hit movie. The plot centers around Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). He owes his soul to Davy Jones (Bill Nighty), who is the Captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman ship. Sparrow must find a way to evade this eternal damnation with the help of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly). This sequel is nowhere near par of the first one. It's running time is unnecessarily long at 2 and a half hours. It lacks the originality and humor of the first movie and just brings you on a ride that looks promising, but takes you absolutely nowhere. Sure, there's plenty of chaos and sword fights and running around, which is entertaining, but to an extent. However, there are some quite enjoyably scenes and in general as movie, it isn't bad at all. But with the expectations that came from the first one, it was just disappointing to me.