Friday, April 11, 2008

Pirates of the Caribbean- Dead Man's Chest

This movie, although not quite as good as the first, was a great watch as well. The effects were just as great. The familiar characters from the crew of the Black Pearl are all back for this, the second shot at the world's best pirate movie series ever. Here, William meets his father, bound by the shackles of Davy Jones, enslaved in an unreleasable slavery to Jones that keeps him from dying for a hundred years. Davy Jones, a monster with the body of a man, and a head that resembles a weird kind of octopus, is after Jack Sparrow, and Jack knows it. Will is meanwhile trying to save himself and his fiancé Elizabeth from the clutches of a cruel British dictator. He goes to Jack for help, and then he finds himself struggling to get away from Davy Jones himself. By the end of the film, all characters have reunited, but Davy Jone's "Kraken" known for sinking ships in a matter of seconds, and eating dozens of men in one swallow, is now after the crew of the Pearl. At the end, Jack stays with the ship to give William, Elizabeth, and the rest of the crew a chance at survival. The last we see of him is as he makes a heroic plunge into the mouth of the Kraken, sword slashing. Not a very satisfactory ending if you're not planning to watch the third movie, where the crew apparently has to go to the end of the world to bring him back from Davy Jone's oft-sung locker.
This movie was not lacking in clean romance, action, humor, fighting, and overall viewability. Again, it has plenty of stuff making it not suitable for young children who are easily frightened by monsters, but for the rest of us, they did a good job on generating those aforementioned monsters. William is a great model of how a man should be toward the woman he loves, he risks his own life numerous times to protect Elizabeth, and overall, makes a good role model in that department.
On the 1-10 scale, this one gets an 8

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