Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

The most successful summer blockbuster of 2006

The Gist

Captain Johnny Depp with Mr Orlando Bloom and Ms Keira Knightly are back with the Black Pearl! Geoffrey Rush is no longer a villain here so they got some human seafood, I mean, human squid to fight against. I think his name is Davey Jones or something. Heavily laden with problems, they need to get something off his chest to save the world. Not the chest on his body! The Dead Man’s Chest! Hence, the title is created.

What Do I Think?

Shiver me timbers! Does every review for a pirate movie must have pirate talk? Me be getting on the bandwagon as well! Ahoy matey! Ok, enough. Not many sequels are good or worthy of the first episode. They say that sequels are actually remakes of the first movie. True, for some movies. Not for this case. This is one heckuva freakin' good sequel! Mr Bruckheimer injected the right ingredients to make this a very watchable fare for the movie goers. With the current ‘slump’ of the current Hollywood movies state and of so-so movies fed to us for the past few years, it is safe to say that Superman did not manage to save the day but it was Mr Johnny Depp! Maybe with some help of a Bloom and a Knightley.

Johnny Depp returns as Jack Sparrow, sorry, CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow. He didn’t spend so much time as a pirate to earn the title as a Mr. He deserves that Captain in front, aye? The character that made us, at least myself, love him so much as an actor returns to the silver screen with a little bit more progression in his life this time around. Thank goodness he didn’t do so much of the same of what he did in the first movie otherwise it would really be just a remake of the first movie.

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley return as Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley respectively. Mr Bloom tries to flex his comedic muscles a bit but I think he failed because no one laughed. I think I was the only one who laughed. I laughed because he failed. As long as he is sweet enough, his purpose as eye-candy for them female fans is duly served. Meanwhile, Keira Knightly is busily fuming about her breast size enhanced for the promotional and publicity materials for Pirates 2. Oh, about her performance in the movie. Not bad, not bad. This girl can go far. She did what she had to do. She got more of them comedic muscles than that Bloomin' fella for sure.

One of the best sequels ever made! Methinks of you don’t make a movie with intentions to generate cash, you’ll be successful. This movie is FUN with the capital F and many appropriately laughable scenes. Many of the action/adventure scenes defied logic but all is forgiven in the name of entertainment, and not forgetting top-notch execution. Plot-wise, it was decent enough to keep you from going to the toilet. Good pacing and good timing of action scenes. Then there were some memorable score and music.

Now, this is good title to end the summer blockbuster season with a bang. Nice finale.

Rating: 8/10. Did over little bit more to satisfy my expectation.

Notes: At the time of this review, this movie was number 1 in the US Box Office for THREE weeks in a row. The domestic earnings have reached $325 million and counting. The original movie did cumulative gross of $305 million. It currently holds the record for the biggest ever 10 day opening. It also broke another record of being the fastest movie to reach $300 million, in 16 freaking days! Also, it was the first to break the $100 million record, in 2 freaking, darn it, 2 freaking days! Wowee!!!!!! Ok, one more, ready? It holds the record for the biggest weekend opening freaking ever in the whole freaking history of Hollywood freaking box office! And this review holds the record for the most freaking usage of the word 'freaking' ever in the history of http://joekhor.blogspot.com! Shiver me timbers!!!!

Last updated: 2009-08-12 01:05:42 by joekhor