And while I get the disdain for the sluggish but still entertaining final chapter, which was burdened with wrapping up any number of key franchise storylines, I have never for the life of me understood the hate for Dead Man’s Chest, which remains one of the more ambitious blockbuster sequels of the modern age.įor starters, Dead Man’s Chest is glorious to behold. All told, the sequel amassed a staggering $423M in North America and $642M abroad for a $1.06 billion-dollar total.Ĭritics mostly hated it (just 53% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and the audience reaction was mixed at best (72% audience rating on RT based on 250,000 reviews), which obviously impacted the not-quite-as-successful follow up At World’s End ($960M worldwide total), released one year later. Dead Man’s Chest released on July 7, 2006, to a then astonishing $136M opening weekend and became the fastest film to cross the billion-dollar mark when it did so in just 63 days. Naturally, the Mouse House saw fit to cash in on this lucrative tentpole and greenlit back-to-back sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, which would see the return of the main cast, including Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, and Geoffrey Rush, among others, as well as director Gore Verbinski.Īs it turns out, audiences were more than thrilled to visit them salty waters for more pirate-y fun. No matter how old you were in 2003, chances are at some point you found yourself seated in a dark cinema cheering on Johnny Depp’s now-legendary Jack Sparrow as he battled ghost pirates, searched for treasure, engaged in exciting ship battles, stormed exotic locales, and drank himself stupid in Disney-Jerry Bruckheimer’s surprisingly entertaining (though bloated) adaptation of the popular Disneyland attraction. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was one of those amazing lightning-in-a-bottle, must-see motion picture experiences that took the world by storm ala Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy*.
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