Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) by Jahir H — 10 Feb 2013
While some individual performances were excellent, i.e. Depp is still very good is less novel, and the score is still memorable. The movie is just less exciting in just about every way than its predecessor.
It suffers from what I like to call the X-men (or Rocky) effect. The first film took place in the real world, with traces of magic (an interesting compass that brings you where your heart desires, and a curse on Aztec gold) and some over-the-top in a good way scenes like those on Tortuga.
This tries to one-up that in every way and it flops phenomenally doing so. Instead of being set in the real world, changes the setting to a world where magic is plentiful and ridiculously powerful, and pirates seem just to know about it while other people remain ignorant.
They bring in a more powerful bad guy and the curse from the first film seems like small potatoes. Also, since everything seems so much less real in the one, the first film itself is retroactively cheapened (ala the Rocky Films).
This review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) was written by Jahir H on 10 Feb 2013.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has generally received positive reviews.
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