Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Stars Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, Orlando Bloom as Will Turner, and Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann.

Now when walking into the theather one would expect that this movie would have massive ammounts of swashbuckling adventure...Right? Wrong. While this movie may have a fair share of sword fights I feel that they don't really advace the plot of the story but instead showing how flashy people dressed up like the main characters can use a sword. The plot was mediocre at best in my opinion. I mean....Davy Jones' locker and the Flying Dutchman? How cliched can that be? The fact that the entire crew of the Flying Dutchman all CGI created makes me sick to my stomach. That much use of CGI should only stay in movies like the Lord of the Rings when needed. At least they have the time to use makeup instead of CGI.

However I did find what part of the movie that I like. That was the scenes with the Kraken. Though, unlike the humanoid type being from Clash of the Titans, this Kraken was more like a giant octopus or squid. Crappy plot and forced humor with one liners aside, this would be a pretty decent movie: to rent. While a bunch of fangirls (and boys) may want me to be torn to shreds I just felt that the movie could've done better and focus more on the plot. Let us hope that the sequel would do this series justice. Cause admit, Disney movies (non animated) haven't been doing to hot lately.