Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Critic Reviews

Intermittently fun and high-spirited, Dead Man's Chest sags under the weight of its own running time.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

It batters you with novelty and works so hard to top itself that exhaustion sets in long before the second hour is over.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

The slow, uneven beginning is more than compensated for by the rousing climax.Read the full review

The cast is entertaining, though with an asterisk, and the special effects are often spectacular, though sometimes not.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review

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.Read the full review