Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

2006 Directed by Gore Verbinski

Jack is back!

Captain Jack Sparrow works his way out of a blood debt with the ghostly Davey Jones, he also attempts to avoid eternal damnation.

Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Stellan Skarsgård Bill Nighy Jack Davenport Kevin McNally Jonathan Pryce Lee Arenberg Mackenzie Crook Tom Hollander Naomie Harris David Bailie Martin Klebba David Schofield Alex Norton Geoffrey Rush Dermot Keaney Andy Beckwith Clive Ashborn Reggie Lee Christopher Adamson Jonathan Linsley John Boswall Max Baker Steve Speirs Lauren Maher Vanessa Branch Luke de Woolfson Show All…

Alternative Titles

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Review by Patrick Willems ★★★½ 14

In one scene a guy’s head gets knocked off and turns into a hermit crab and scuttles away and that alone earns two stars
Review by josh lewis ★★★★ 5

sometimes it's just nice to watch a studio movie that was actually storyboarded. front-to-back idiosyncratic design work and clever action, and just plain weird and gorgeous in a way movies this expensive really just aren't anymore.
Review by Mario ★★★★½ 18

My favourite of the trilogy. Yep it's a trilogy. There are only 3 movies.
Review by Silent J ★★★★½ 19

A lot of people hate this film and claim it was where the franchise truly met its downfall.
I love this just as much as the first film.
Sue me.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 10

83
Gore Verbinski unhinged. A back-to-back shooting schedule (with At World's End), an unprecedented Hollywood budget, and a mostly blank canvas allowed this sequel to flourish into a demented theme-park ride extravaganza. Verbinski has said that Disney didn't really have the time to interfere, and the result is a film overloaded with cannibals, sword fights with Keaton-esque physical comedy, a kraken, Davy Jones (with some of the best mo-cap and CGI for the time), and even a few too many characters. Mostly, this is a plodding, bloated film, with uneven pacing and a struggle to maintain its tone, but the delirious heights are unlike anything we've seen before or since in a major tentpole blockbuster.
Review by Frandi Peralta ★★★★½ 3

Jack: "Is this a dream?"
Bootstrap: "No."
Jack: "Thought not. If it were, there'd be rum.
♥️ Jack Sparrow ♥️

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Review by Houston Coley ★★★★½ 11

MY GAWD.
It’s insane that this movie is not featured on every list of the best sequels out there. From minute one, it takes the pre-established lore and characters from the first film and adds depth, satisfying growth, and better stakes all the way. Also, like any good Empire Strikes Back analogy, it veers darker than everything before. There’s just something so entirely lacking in bathos here that embraces the epic and the absurd without letting either one eclipse the other. And the imagery is so strong, so striking, so much fun!
It’s additionally insane that this is, without a doubt, one of the best-looking blockbusters of the 2000s - and certainly better-looking than almost anything out today. How did…
Review by 🌻 lindsay 🌻 ★★★★½ 11

one of the best villains ever honestly? he is a SQUID MAN... who plays an organ with his FACE TENTACLES...... that’s amazing and objectively great. he has a crew!! of other half man half sea creature hybrids!! HIS HEART IS LOCKED IN A CHEST. he is vulnerable and tragic and he was just doing his job!!
sorry but this movie is more than just fun, it’s great storytelling and I love it.
Review by Gally☆Gabrielle ★★★★★ 11

94/100
The Empire Strikes Back of my generation as far as I'm concerned.
Film critics like to call this convoluted. A criticism also often directed at its follow-up, At World's End, and apparently one that Dead Men Tell No Tales has not been able to escape. Honestly, what does "convoluted" even means anymore? Heeey what's this? A movie that the screenwriters actually bothered to THINK to come up with its story? Nah, that's too much for the general audience. It's boring and hard to follow.
I watched this movie when I was 11, I was completely enthralled by it and easily understood its story. How the FUCK is this hard to follow?! If an 11 year old can understand this,…
Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 3

"I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by."
Narratively some kind of cumbersome riddle, but so packed with non-sequitur incident and broad humor that it almost resembles INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM. Pretty much one damn thing after another. Kind of a watershed for modern CGI, with a lot of really seamless integration of performance capture, pure animation, and elaborate practical sets. Davy Jones smoking a pipe in the rain or, in probably my favorite moment of the film, Sparrow charging into the Kraken's mouth, are as purely iconic images as this stuff ever managed. Bill Nighy is terrific in this and Orlando Bloom is thankfully not in it all that much.
Review by Will ★★★½ 1

After 14 years of nothing but animation and CGI infested films, Davy Jones is still one of the best CG characters out there...
Review by Jake Cole ★★★★½ 3

Its predecessor is the more structurally perfect film; there are narrative longueurs and clashing elements here that still come off as convoluted and unnecessary nearly 15 years later. But this will always be my personal favorite as Gore Verbinski's mad playhouse vision projected at its most colossal yet visually lucid, the work of the finest blockbuster filmmaker of his generation indulging every whim with the Big Mouse's cash. If the narrative is flabbier this time, the filmmaking may be even tighter; watch how this thing leaps out of the gate with its simultaneous raising of narrative stakes and how quickly it sets its grotesque tone.
Not since the early, expressionist days of Disney's animated features has a major company property…

Recent reviews

Review by martha ✨ ★★★★½

du yæ fearre dæyeth
Review by Stanislaw Sobczyk ★★★

Sequel typu "więcej, mocniej, szybciej". Przez to film mimo wszystko traci sporo uroku, którą miała "Klątwa Czarnej Perły". Jednak ten bałagan ogląda się dość przyjemnie, Jack Sparrow jeszcze nie męczy i sporo tu fajnych konceptów.
Review by Tyrone Jackson ★★★

Very enjoyable still leaning into more original content than the first movie but still full on with the not so original stuff too. I deduct half a star from what I gave the original because I found this a lot slower which didn't suit the film, but Davy is a much more compelling villain than that other dude.
Review by vee ★★★

not as good as the lego wii game
Review by kruiz ★★★★

IVE GOT A JAR OF DIRT
Review by bree ★★★½

elizabeth swann dressed as a pirate man and davy jones dramatically playing the organ were the best things about this movie
Review by Sir_Beef ★★★★½

Not as tight of a script as the first one, just because it has more world building, but the same template is used and goes to places that are just very cool. I never realized how serialized these movies are. Each scene ends with a cliffhanger that either gets answered in the next scene, or later in the movie! It’s a fun and creative time! With great character moments as well. Jack’s arc of being a wandering soul to having a purpose is really well done, even though it takes 2 hours and 15 minutes to get to the payoff, but it’s worth it. Taking a 1/2 star off just so people think I’m not blinded by nostalgia ☠️
Review by Crad ★★★★½

as far as im concerned every pirates movie is this one
Review by martika ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

rip kraken and elizabeth's father 💔
Review by MattyDreadd01 ★★★★★

This film was basically Empire Strikes Back for me during my childhood.
Review by Gzilla1954 ★★★★★

One could sit around and nitpick this movie all they want, but this is just such a solid movie that I can’t find any legitimate criticisms. The story is so tightly woven that you can’t poke any holes in it, the action is intercut organically into the plot, the characters are all very well handled, with some brilliant dynamics at play, and the effects- oh my lord the effects. Davy Jones still looks insanely good to this day, and I don’t think there will ever come a day where he doesn’t look outstanding. And as far as the rest of the effects go, this movie is a perfect marriage of practical and cgi. The best example of that is the…
Review by Nick ★★★★

Yo haha why is everybody so CHEEKY