Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

[Professor S]

I liked it a lot, and thats saying something considering what a complete mess that movie could have been. To borrow a line from Harry at AICN, its like Gore Verbinski directed this movie on a dare. It is so filled woth plot twists and action that the movie could have easily degenerated into a crapfest. Instead it remained a fun movie that was just as enteraining as the original, if not as good of a "film"

As I was watching it, I wished that they would have split it into 2 movies, but once you-know-who pops up at the end I could see why they wanted to keep this as one film. Still, I would have sat through another 30 minutes to allow for better pacing. Hopefully they'll have a directors cut on DVD.

BTW, the Transformers teaser trailer was showing before Pirates in my theater, and the crowd went NUTS for it. The odd part to me was that Transformers were from my generation (I'm 29) and kids half my age were crazy for it. I know the toy line has continued, but kets be honest... its just NOT the same.