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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "Even better than the first one and, oh, that Johnny Depp!" more... B+ Boston Globe Ty Burr "...a noisy and lazy stopgap movie that goes absolutely nowhere and takes 2 1/2 hours to get there." more... C- Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "...has half the violence but twice the laughs of the first film..." more... B   E! Online "Will you be rooting for Johnny Depp or the sea monsters? You won't have to ask yourself that question because you'll be having too much fun..." more... A- Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...a hellish contraption..." more... D+ filmcritic.com Joel Meares "...big and loud and silly but simultaneously dark and cunning." more... B+ Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Once again Johnny Depp shines in this movie series disguised as a theme park ride." more... B- New York Post Kyle Smith "...I walked into Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest singing yo-ho. I walked out singing so-so." more... C+ New York Times A. O. Scott "Although there are memorable bits and pieces, the new Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie with no particular interest in coherence, economy or feeling." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "The comedy in Dead Man's Chest is more subdued than in The Curse of the Black Pearl, but there's still a strong sense of irreverence." more... B   Rolling Stone Peter Travers " It's the triumphant rogue in Depp that keeps this pirate ship afloat..." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "...an amalgam of many of the modern cinema's worst tendencies and modern filmmaking's most unfortunate misconceptions." more... D   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker "...pure cinematic junk food, a big, silly summer blockbuster whipped up from virtually nothing." more... B- USA Today Claudia Puig "...it does deliver a combustible combination of ingredients for a summer blockbuster..." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)