Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

It’s an amalgam of many of the modern cinema’s worst tendencies and modern filmmaking’s most unfortunate misconceptions. The film...

This second film is pretty much all thrills, special effects and nonstop action – but with virtually no cohesive or compelling story line.

It’s often unclear what’s going on, beyond a zillion dollars of splashy effects washing over the screen.

Like Jack’s heart, Dead Man’s Chest is unsure of what it wants, so it takes the omnivorous approach, and all of the story lines suffer...

The result is an overproduced movie that tries so strenuously hard to be "fun" that it’s a chore to sit through. For all its razzle-dazz...

Lumpen direction, lousy writing and pouting performances aside, the worst thing about Dead Man’s Chest is its interminable length.

It’s a franchise movie – a product – that is pretending to be a lot hipper than it is.

A complicated plot involving a mysterious key and Will’s seafood-wearing dad fights for space between relentless action sequences in a f...

Even for a sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest takes the practice of double-dipping to extreme depths.

Without a beating heart at its center, this Chest feels empty indeed.

In every other way – as adventure yarn or as satire on that form or merely as an enjoyable entertainment featuring a wonderfully sly and subtl...

The dreaded curse of the sequels hits home with a vengeance in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, a noisy and lazy stopgap movi...