{"id":313,"date":"2006-07-10T21:38:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/10\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T19:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:05:57","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Depp delivers a truly strange performance in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest<\/em> is a healthy dose of frivolous fun; I don’t care what the critics are saying<\/a>. I could do without Orlando Bloom’s cardboard<\/a> performance, or the minature controversy around Keira Knightly being airbrushed on the posters, but that’s not what the movie is about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with the first installment, watch it for Johnny Depp’s fresh one-of-a-kind reinterpretation of the age-old Hollywood stock character, the pirate rogue. The first film had an extra layer of enjoyment as one could sense Depp must have been truly mystifying the Disney studio heads. By now surely they’re in on the joke and were more willing to let him rip, but it’s still a truly strange performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That may sound like a positive review, but it still only gets three stars since it’s by no means a great movie and certainly won’t stand the test of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is a healthy dose of frivolous fun; I don’t care what the critics are saying. I could do without Orlando Bloom’s cardboard performance, or the minature controversy around Keira Knightly being airbrushed on the posters, but that’s not what the movie is about. 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