It’s impossible not to compare this movie with its predecessor, and sadly, it’s lacking in every respect. Where “Black Pearl” was action-packed, comedic, and didn’t take itself too seriously, “Dead Man’s Chest” was serious and plodding. The action beats were few and far between; when the ‘water wheel sword fight’ started, I looked at my watch and thought, “Geez, it takes an HOUR AND FORTY-FIVE MINUTES to get fun?” Part of the problem is that while Barbossa and his crew were funny and scary, Davy Jones and his crew weren’t funny at all, and were left trying way too hard to be creepy. Yes Disney, we know you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the sfx pirates. They just don’t look good. You could still sell your action figures with half the amount of screen time.

Acting-wise, Stellan Skarsgard and Jack Davenport were magnificent, and Depp performed adequately (if lacking a little something). Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightly, although not bad per se, weren’t given much to do. The story was padded and none of the characters had believable motivation. Plus, Captain Jack went from “rapscallion” to “thoroughly dislikeable” at one point in the movie, and while it’s not something that bothered everyone, it sure as hell bothered me.

On the risk of sounding too downbeat, there were some good moments. I really did enjoy the big fight scene towards the end, and about half of the Kraken moments were good (the other half could have been easily cut down). But “Dead Man’s Chest” was simply not much fun. I can only hope for more swashbuckling and comedy in “End of the World”, but something tells me they’re going to keep this serious tone. This franchise was based on a ride, for god’s sakes: make it FEEL like one.

When I saw it my first thought was: God, I’d expected so much more!
Then I realised there isn’t much more to be expected. I mean, The Curse of The Black Pearl was sooo awesome, nothing can compare with it. I was just a little disappointed with Johnny Depp, because he didn’t show anything new here. I still love his character, but Jack didn’t improve at all.

And s.th. else-what were there sparks between him and Elizabeth?! He fancies her for sure-she’s charming, beautiful, powerful even. But Will did soo much for her, he changed so that she fell in love with him. Do you think she’d risk all that because of a unstable pirat, even if he is that gorgeous?

I enjoyed the movie. It had the action and humor of the first. Unfortunately, it was nothing but an ad for the third part. Nothing is resolved.

I fell asleep halfway through the first “Pirates” movie. Same thing happened with this one. Woke up after a nice nap, only to find that the movie still wasn’t over.

Too long. Too many stunts, not enough story. No resolution to any of the major plot points. The grotesqueness of the Flying Dutchman crew consistently grossed me out. And I did not like the cliffhanger ending at all.

I think Kylie Minogue (already in the ninetees) sang all that needs to be said about the film:
“Too many, too much, too hard,
Help me, this time I went too far”

So it wasn’t brilliant and it was very slapstick… I found some very amusing and clever elements, plus Norrington…mmm…Norrington. Right, so I recommend people see this mainly because I’m OCD when it comes to series, so everyone should see every movie in a series, good or not so good. Oh, even if you don’t like it…Depp…mmm…Depp.

I liked it much better the second time around. Changed my opinion from “okay” movie to great movie.

I had heard a lot of varying things about it from other people before I finally saw. Some said it was good, some said it wasn’t, and many said it was way too long. I have to say thatI agree with the way too longness—those fight scenes took forever and they didn’t seem terribly necessary in advancing the plot. That being said, I still liked the movie. And it was really funny, I found myself laughing through the whole movie. However, maybe I just have a really weird sense of humor since my friend and I seemed to be the only ones in the theater laughing. However, the funniness is why I say this movie is frolicking good fun and worth consuming. Otherwise, that sword fighting scene with the giant wheel was enough to drive anyone crazy.

I was expecting that this movie would leave the story open for a sequel, but this really went to the extreme. In fact, the end of the movie left so much unresolved that I really feel like it was only half of a really long movie. So…since I’ve really only seen half of the movie, I’m not going to write a review quite yet.

Not as good as the first, but I digged it. I feel like it had been a while since I’d seen a movie that was actually exciting.

A common sin of modern action/adventure movies are the “Twenty Minute Action Scene That Really Lasts Way Too Long, Is Not Related To The Plot, And Gets Boring After Awhile.” POC2 had a few of those scenes.

Still, when all was said and done, it was an extremely enjoyable movie, and I can’t wait for the third one.