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OFCS Rating: 66% Fresh |
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| "Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow proves that an actor's awesome talent can make incredible special effects and funny action sequences pale in comparison." |
| ReelTalk Movie Reviews |
| Betty Jo Tucker |
B | "Yes, it's too long, but it is still steadfast popcorn summer entertainment." |
| FromTheBalcony |
| Bill Clark |
4/5 | "There is more of everything in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie: more spectacle; more exotic locales; more convoluted story contrivances." |
| DVD Verdict |
| Bill Gibron |
C+ | "It gives the audience what it wants, but this time the attitude feels deflated, and the end product lacks a good sense of rum-drunk playfulness." |
| FilmJerk.com |
| Brian Orndorf |
| "Jack's fondness for wrist bangles and hair doodads makes him infinitely more interesting than the action franchise in which he's packaged.
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| PopMatters |
| Cynthia Fuchs |
5/5 | "A flawless entertainment offering, one as breathtaking as its predecessor... The Pirates franchise is about as much fun as you can possibly have at the movies." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| David Cornelius |
A | "More swordplay, more swashbuckling, more Jack Sparrow. What's not to love?" |
| EDGE Boston |
| David Foucher |
3.5/4 | "...the pace is better, the action is not flooding the screen every two seconds, and characters seem more like evolved concepts rather than background distractions." |
| Cinemaphile.org |
| David Keyes |
2/4 | "Pirates 2 is everything we prayed to God it wouldn't be: dull, humorless, long, languid, effects-driven, boorish, and yawn-inducing. Other than that it's excellent!" |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| David N. Butterworth |
.5/4 | "...an unpleasant, distinctly overlong piece of dreck that's certainly a strong contender for worst movie of the year." |
| Reel Film Reviews |
| David Nusair |
D | "I think I could have had more fun at Disneyland waiting on long lines with noisy uncontrollable
tykes running all around me." |
| Ozus' World Movie Reviews |
| Dennis Schwartz |
1/4 | "A grand-scale train wreck." |
| TheMovieBoy.com |
| Dustin Putman |
C+ | "That's how these movies make me feel: a little dazzled and amused, but not in any kind of special or memorable way." |
| EricDSnider.com |
| Eric D. Snider |
3.5/4 | "A classic "middle" film that delivers as much excitement and ingenuity you could hope for to outclass hundreds of summer popcorn fare." |
| eFilmCritic.com |
| Erik Childress |
B- | "The cliffhanger ending provides some hope that the imminent third film will restore some of what is missing from this one." |
| Film Blather |
| Eugene Novikov |
C- | "Twice as overstuffed with effects as its predecessor but less than half as entertaining...a sequel so dispiriting it almost makes one ashamed to have liked the first movie." |
| One Guy's Opinion |
| Frank Swietek |
1/5 | "An overstuffed and immensely tedious comedy that sinks early in its voyage." |
| Spirituality and Practice |
| Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat |
3/4 | "In essence, Dead Man's Chest gives us an opportunity to join old friends on a new adventure that isn't substantially different from the old one." |
| ReelViews |
| James Berardinelli |
3/5 | "Just think of Dead Man's Chest as a double feature without a break in the middle and hope that your theater seat is plenty comfortable." |
| Q Network Film Desk |
| James Kendrick |
6/10 | "Click here to read review" |
| Kinoblog.com |
| Jaroslav Vishtaljuk |
2/5 | "takes all that was so charming about the first Pirates...and amps it up to the wattage of a Looney Tunes cartoon" |
| Los Angeles Alternative |
| Jay Antani |
7/10 | "What's most surprising about this sequel ... is how much more serious it feels." |
| Window to the Movies |
| Jeffrey Chen |
8/10 | "...the ultimate summer action-adventure creature-feature..." |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
| JoBlo |
2/4 | "As you'd expect from a sequel, everything that made the original interesting is amplified to within an inch of its life." |
| Big Picture Big Sound |
| Joe Lozito |
3/5 | "As much as we might want to fall madly in love with this adventure, the disappointment is that it makes its pirates' lives seem just that little less attractive." |
| FilmFocus |
| Joe Utichi |
6/10 | "Just because you can do something does not mean you have to. Long and noisy is not enough." |
| DVDTown.com |
| John J. Puccio |
| "With dashing heroes, swashbuckling damsels, vile villains and enough plot for two films, Dead Man's Chest is worth digging up." |
| Light Views |
| John Larsen |
3.5/4 | "Es el mejor ejemplo de lo que debe ser el cine de verano: Divertido, espectacular y entrañable al mismo tiempo. Junto con Superman Regresa, es de esos trabajos que nos recuerdan que el cine es, y debe seguir siendo, una fábrica de sueños." |
| Moviola |
| Jorge Avila Andrade |
2/5 | "
Dead Man on arrival." |
| 3BlackChicks Review |
| Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel |
5/5 | "More of the same, and more of it...at a bladder-challenging 145 minutes, it's packed to the gills, but never feels rushed or lazy. Lazy? No way. These people are working HARD." |
| Cinerina |
| Karina Montgomery |
4.0/4.0 | "Shorter title, more supernatural and swashbuckling fun." |
| MovieCrypt.com |
| Kevin A. Ranson |
3.5/5 | "Like the first film, Dead Man's Chest is very much a showpiece for Johnny Depp." |
| 7M Pictures |
| Kevin Carr |
C | "The best that can be said for this trilogy middler is that its waterlogged bad guys are an altogether better bunch of special effects than their ghostly predecessors.
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| Reeling Reviews |
| Laura Clifford |
4/5 | "Fantasía desbordante que saciará los apetitos visuales más exigentes." |
| Cinenganos |
| Luis Martinez |
2.5/4 | "You can't beat on Dead Man's Chest on value-for-money terms, but it's like an all-you-can-eat buffet -- everything's tasty, the surfeit is sickening." |
| TV Guide's Movie Guide |
| Maitland McDonagh |
3/4 | "Surpasses its predecessor in making entertainment out of nonsense." |
| Mark Reviews Movies |
| Mark Dujsik |
7/10 | "Much more
than the last film, this one returns to the franchise
origins as an amusement park ride. This time this
film is darker--both literally and figuratively." |
| rec.arts.movies.reviews |
| Mark R. Leeper |
| "[T]he charming cast carries us through the first awkward act until, suddenly, at around the 45-minute mark, everything suddenly snaps into focus, and by God, it becomes The Empire Strikes Back." |
| Flick Filosopher |
| MaryAnn Johanson |
3/4 | "A rollicking ride that keeps the audience coming back for more." |
| Mr. Brown's Movies |
| Michael Dequina |
2/4 | "I'll admit that the film is intermittently amusing, but it also reeks of the dreaded "bigger, louder, more" syndrome that has undone many a sequel." |
| Aisle Seat |
| Mike McGranaghan |
A- | "A perfect popcorn pleasure, one of the most sensationally entertaining movies of the year." |
| Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
| Nell Minow |
2/4 | "Even for a sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest takes the practice of double-dipping to extreme depths." |
| Slant Magazine |
| Nick Schager |
4/5 | "Apesar de claramente motivada por interesses financeiros, esta continuação é uma aventura deliciosamente divertida que faz jus ao original." |
| Cinema em Cena |
| Pablo Villaca |
2.5/5 | "I'll reserve judgment on the entire series until the release of At World's End next year, but for now, Dead Man's Chest is a step backwards." |
| Film Threat |
| Pete Vonder Haar |
3.5/5 | "Yes, there's a massive cliffhanger of an ending. And yes, it leaves us gagging for more." |
| Shadows on the Wall |
| Rich Cline |
B+ | "Dead Man's Chest goes to some very scary places... and few of them are marked on Uncle Walt's brightly colored map." |
| Flipside Movie Emporium |
| Rob Vaux |
C+ | "It seems like half a movie that is twice as long as a normal movie." |
| Laramie Movie Scope |
| Robert Roten |
| "Still a lot of fun, has lots of action and adds some depth to the overall story, but it's also bloated and ends far too suddenly." |
| Movie Views |
| Ryan Cracknell |
4.5/5 | "By the time it's all over, POTC2 has delivered more toe-tappin' eye-candy than the last three summer movies combined. (So get Kraken!)" |
| Cinematical |
| Scott Weinberg |
B- | "As brisk, busy and inconsequential as you would expect from a film based on a Disneyland ride..." |
| Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Sean Axmaker |
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OFCS Rating: 66% Fresh |
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