Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s instal the new for windows

If the natives turn your stomach, director Gore Verbinski tries to even things out by making Harris the female equivalent to Sparrow’s rotten charm. Naturally, Sparrow won’t do this alone and sneakily recruits the still green, but deadly, Turner.Īlong the way, we see some old faces and meet some new ones, namely voodoo priestess Tia Dalma (Naomi Harris of “28 Days Later” and “Miami Vice”). Even without the embarrassing racist depictions, the sequence is hardly needed, considering that the film’s real story is both engrossing and visually spectacular.Īt Jones’ command is the Cracken, an obscenely large, tentacled beast he’s set after the indebted Sparrow whose only plan for getting out of harm’s way is getting the key to Jones’ chest and taking his still beating heart. In a strange twist, they believe eating Sparrow will make him holier.

In the meantime, Sparrow is being given the “Holy White Man” treatment as he holds sway over a cast of barely clothed natives, who think Sparrow is a god. Of course, things are put on hold when Turner is set to retrieve Sparrow (more specifically, Sparrow’s kooky compass) by a smarmy rep from the East India Trading company. Thankfully, it meets all expectations and even surpasses some.Ī bit darker and lot more violent, “Dead Man’s Chest” picks up where we left off with Blacksmith/pirate Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) set to marry the equally swashbuckling Elizabeth (Kiera Knightly). However, with the first film’s success, the stakes are a bit higher for the sequel.

Then again, the first worked so well because nobody thought a pirate film based on an amusement park ride – a perceived low even by Hollywood’s standards – could be any good. In fact, it’s rather good if not as lighthearted as the first. That’s not to say that “Pirates” isn’t worth watching. We return to another mysterious island, this time with brown-skinned cannibals who fall under the dirty, swaggering spell of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” – another fun film that unnecessarily wallows in racist notions of a bygone era.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s instal the new for windows