Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - |July 18 • 2006|

If you have seen the previews and understand that this is labeled under swashbuckling FANTASY, then you probably do not need to complain at the film's lack of logic..because there really isn't any. If you seen a Davey Jones pirate who appears to look like he's a crossbreed with a squid, then you ought to know what you are going to see. The film is perfect summer blockbuster material. It revels in it's silliness and ridiculous stunts and bows it's giggling head to all those movies that play with believability throwing caution to the wind. The film's nonsensical storyline consists of three different factions after the heart of pirate ghoul Davey Jones which is locked away in a chest and he holds the key. Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley must get the compass which guides the way to the chest because certain governmental baddies desire that heart for it would mean the seas would be owned by East Mining company. The power of the seas is Davey Jones due to a love pact with it. Captain Jack Sparrow also desires to have the heart because if anything the open seas should be rules by a pirate. Sparrow has a map of the key and the compass..how he retrieved either one is a mystery(he recovered it from a dead corpse's casket;at the beginning of the film we see he hid in the casket blowing a hole out of it after getting the map..I do not know how he came upon the news of where the compass or the map would be..we must accept what we get or not}. So Bloom must get Sparrow to give him the compass or else. Soon Sparrow meets up with Bloom's father who leaves a mark on Sparrow's hand declaring him ill fitted for certain doom. Soo Davey Jones desires to catch Sparrow for he desires Sparrow's soul. It goes on and on, but the film is about the dead man's chest and how everyone needs the heart inside. The film has an abundance of stunt sequences which defy everything beyond any form of logic. The sequence where Bloom must save Sparrow from being burned and eaten because his crew is captured by a tribe who think Sparrow is a god, shows this oval cage of bones and skulls which has encased them and their adventure down hills is extremely ridiculous. Not to mention, the dueling on top of a wheel towards the end. There's this octopus creature which consumes ships{an amazing scene where this thing engulfs a ship and it's crew is astonishing}called a Kragon and the grotesque masking of Davey Jones' crew for who are all amphibious are highlights in good computer graphics. Overlong, overblown, but never boring.