DVD | POTC: Dead Man’s Chest

Rating: M - Contains Medium Level Violence
Duration: 154 mins.
Genre: Action & Adventure.
Actors: Mackenzie Crook, Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Jack Davenport, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgaard.
Release Date: Available Now.

Director Gore Verbinksi takes to the high seas once again in the sequel to Disney’s smash hit Pirates of the Caribbean. This time however there’s no need to introduce the characters, so it’s straight into the action, right?

Wrong. Dead Man’s Chest starts off rather ponderously, as it tries sets the scene for this installment of the money making franchise. Things get back to their swaggering ways when Captain Jack enters the scene, and the action and laughs soon start to mount up.

The storyline is simple, and familiar. Jack has got himself in trouble and is trying to avoid having to give his soul to Davey Jones, and he will use any means necessary, including trading the lives of his two friends, Will and Elizabeth.

Dead Man’s Chest does suffer (in my humble opinion) from being the illegitimate child of a forced trilogy, and If I were to crank the cynicism up to full, I’d say it’s nothing more than a vehicle for the third (and hopefully) final movie.

But as with the Matrix trilogy, the middle movie is still a lot of fun, and had there been no first movie, we’d be praising this effort as much as the first. But because the first Pirates movie was so damn good, and the expectations for the sequel so sky high, there was bound to be disappointment.

One thing you won’t be disappointed in is the special effects. If you were wowed by the glorious eye candy in the first movie, Dead Man’s Chest will blow you away, as Disney pulled out all the stops and balanced creativity with technology to bring the fantasy world of pirates and the supernatural to life like never before.

The formula is near perfect and will have you pining for the final installment.

Watch to the end of the credits, as there’s a little joke at the end.

Food for thought:
Is love the most powerful force in the world?

Rent or Buy?
This one’s a keeper, especially with a whole disc of special features to explore.