my 16 year old daughter HATED it.
Reviews collected on RottenTomatoes.com are only 52% positive...
a sample:
"Gone is much of the humor and originality of the first movie."
"This second film is pretty much all thrills, special effects and nonstop action -- but with virtually no cohesive or compelling story line."
-- Bill Zwecker, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Calling a summer movie 'action-packed' is supposed to be a compliment, but there's nothing so tedious as nonstop excitement."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
B- "Mr. Verbinski is an extremely skilled traffic director."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
2/4 "Rum, monotony and the lash."
-- Stephen Whitty, NEWARK STAR-LEDGER
2/4 "It's often unclear what's going on, beyond a zillion dollars of splashy effects washing over the screen."
-- Bruce Westbrook, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
3/4 "It's the triumphant rogue in Depp that keeps this pirate ship afloat and actually makes the third voyage (coming next summer) a trip worth booking."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"This Disney movie isn't a follow-up to the first Pirates of the Caribbean so much as its empty-calorie clone."
-- Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST
2.5/4 "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."
-- Kyle Smith, NEW YORK POST
2.5/4 "When you find out at the end that what you've just seen is merely the overture to yet another sequel, you can't help wondering what more can be extracted from this franchise. Gold, me hearties, more gold!"
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
2.5/5 "Although there are memorable bits and pieces, the new Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling."
