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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Buena Vista Pictures / Walt Disney Studios
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of adventure violence, including frightening images
Starring
Johnny Depp,
Orlando Bloom,
Keira Knightley,
Bill Nighy,
Stellan Skarsgård,
Naomie Harris,
Jonathan Pryce, Tom Hollander,
and
Geoffrey Rush
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reunite this epic tale chronicling the further mis-adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow. (Buena Vista Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
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Adventure
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Comedy
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Fantasy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Ted Elliott (also characters)
Terry Rossio (also characters)
Stuart Beattie
Jay Wolpert
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Gore Verbinski
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 5, 2006
Theatrical: July 7, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
145 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
Also known as "Pirates of the Caribbean 2"
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Lively is an odd word for something called Dead Man's Chest, but lively it is. You won't find hotter action, wilder thrills or loopier laughs this summer.
75
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It's too long, unnecessarily complicated and often silly, but Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is still the purest popcorn entertainment of the summer.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The slow, uneven beginning is more than compensated for by the rousing climax.
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Two of the big action set-pieces easily outdo anything from the previous edition.
75
USA Today
Claudia Puig
It does deliver a combustible combination of ingredients for a summer blockbuster: a cornucopia of action and dazzling effects, some raucous humor and a large dose of Depp's winning charm.
75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Sufficiently resembles the first film that the heartiest fans should be content.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Depp is the comic gel that holds the whole enterprise together. The performance is a total delight that somehow combines Bugs Bunny, Peter Pan and Charlie Chaplin.
70
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
A collection of swashbuckling set pieces with the hustle of a vaudeville show.
67
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's all a bit much, yes, a bit exhausting, that's true, but then why on earth would anyone expect otherwise?
67
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Verbinski, Depp and company just want to make it the best ride you've had all summer. If that's all you demand of a frothy summer blockbuster, then this delivers the goods.
67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The movie's gross-out effects are impressive but wearying. How apt that the director's name is Gore.
63
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
The summer's most anticipated film, and it gives fans what they want - then more of what they want, and more, and more, until gluttony becomes force-feeding.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Again, as with "Star Wars," the interest lies at least as much in the set design and costumes as the narrative.
63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
You can't beat on Dead Man's on value-for-money terms, but it's like an all-you-can-eat buffet -- everything's tasty, the surfeit is sickening.
63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
This chest is overfilled with exposition and physical comedy, without a doubloon's worth of the scary suspense that made the laughs in the first one such brilliant comic relief.
60
Empire
Dan Jolin
Too long, and too wrapped up in its various plot contrivances to notice it?s veering off course. But Jack just about pulls the wheel back, aided by Verbinski?s flair for cartoonish comedy action.
60
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Even more of a party-hearty-Marty potlatch of silliness than its predecessor. The franchise having been established, Verbinski, Bruckheimer, and Co. have been liberated to indulge in absurdities, pile on the so-old-they're-new-again clichés, and make jokes at their own expense.
60
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The cast is entertaining, though with an asterisk, and the special effects are often spectacular, though sometimes not.
60
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
Far too long, but thanks to Depp--and to Bill Nighy, properly mean beneath his suckers and blubber--it swerves away from the errors committed by the other big movies this summer.
60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley manage to sparkle, but this overstuffed sequel is no treasure.
58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The first of two sequels shot in immediate succession, Dead Man's Chest bears the unenviable burden of racking the pins for both movies, which leaves it with precious few opportunities to have a little fun of its own.
50
Premiere
Ethan Alter
Dead Man's Chest is best summed up by the scene where Sparrow and Will battle each other atop a runaway water wheel. Like the characters, this movie is just running in circles.
50
Variety
Todd McCarthy
There is a sense of bloat and where-do-we-go-from here aimlessness to this unconscionably protracted undertaking.
50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Intermittently fun and high-spirited, Dead Man's Chest sags under the weight of its own running time.
50
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Exactly the kind of thing most of us have in mind when we think "popcorn movie." It's largely brainless, pretty to look at, and produced solely as a lead-in to another moneymaking sequel for Disney.
50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
I was worn down by the excess: Depp's fruity impersonation of Keith Richards (or William F. Buckley) as pirate Jack Sparrow; too many bottomless chasms on an island with too many jungle savages (after the fashion of Peter Jackson's King Kong); Bill Nighy playing too squishy a villain with a beard of too many crawling octopus tentacles; too much violence, pop nihilism, and sick humor.
50
Slate
Dana Stevens
The effects are breathtaking, and much of the action is choreographed with energy and wit. (A chase sequence on a cliff uses visual gags that defy the laws of physics, Wile E. Coyote-style.) But all of these moments bob on the film's slick surface like so much flotsam. Without a beating heart at its center, this Chest feels empty indeed.
50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
What do we want in a sequel? Just a little taste of the original or a triple serving piled high? Dead Man's Chest opts for the latter. This Disney movie isn't a follow-up to the first "Pirates of the Caribbean" so much as its empty-calorie clone.
50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
It batters you with novelty and works so hard to top itself that exhaustion sets in long before the second hour is over.
50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The worst kind of sequel -- the kind that exists only to give you more-more-more of what you liked the first time around, without ever justifying its own existence. This lavish, superbly designed film goes on for an exhausting 2½ hours.
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A long, tedious and convoluted follow-up to 2003's rollicking high-seas hit, The Curse of the Black Pearl, this second installment in the promised trilogy lacks the swash and buckle of the original. And then some.
40
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Whatever goodwill one harbored toward the first Pirates film is quickly dashed by its sneering successor, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, which is less a film than a two-and-a-half-hour trailer for the final installment in this accidental trilogy.
40
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Infernally boring for much of its running time, and then, just as the pulse starts to quicken: To be continued.
38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A noisy and lazy stopgap movie that goes absolutely nowhere and takes 2 1/2 hours to get there.
33
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The second movie, Dead Man's Chest, is everything you feared the first would be: a theme-park spectacle lasting 2 1/2 hours.
33
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Yes indeed, Pirates 2.0 is a theme ride, if by ride you mean a hellish contraption into which a ticket holder is strapped, overstimulated but unsatisfied, and unable to disengage until the operator releases the restraining harness.
25
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
More than the usual bad or even numbingly horrible movie. It's an amalgam of many of the modern cinema's worst tendencies and modern filmmaking's most unfortunate misconceptions.
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