Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Directed by	Gore Verbinski
Written by	Ted Elliott Terry Rossio
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer
Starring	Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Bill Nighy Stellan Skarsgård Jack Davenport Kevin McNally Jonathan Pryce Tom Hollander
Cinematography	Dariusz Wolski
Edited by	Stephen E. Rivkin Craig Wood
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Distributed by	Walt Disney Company Buena Vista Pictures
Release dates	July 7, 2006
Running time	151 Minutes
Language	English

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 pirate adventure film that follows the 2003 summer blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The sequel is directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, both of whom were involved in the making of the first film. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley reprise their roles as Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann, respectively. Bill Nighy portrays the villainous Davy Jones and Stellan Skarsgård plays the role of Will Turner's father, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner. The film was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on July 6 2006, and in the USA and Canada on July 7, 2006. The movie set several records in its first three days in theatres over its opening weekend.

Production

Information about the two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was revealed at a Disney Investor Conference Studio Presentation in 2005. The title for the first sequel was revealed to be Dead Man's Chest, and a second sequel was promised for a May 2007 theatrical release.

Filming began on February 28, 2005, with locations once again in the Costa Alegre, in Jalisco (Mexico) and Barrouallie, St. Vincent. The sequel also includes location shooting in Dominica as well as The Bahamas. The filmmakers are largely shooting the two sequels back-to-back, à la The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King , although throughout 2005 Dead Man's Chest was the main focus of attention, with a collection of scenes for the third movie being shot. Because of the back-to-back setup, filming Dead Man's Chest did not finish until February 7 2006. Although they were filmed back to back they are being released in the same fashion as The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, one year apart, and filming for the third movie continues into 2006.

Dead Man's Chest premiered at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on June 24, 2006, two days prior to the reopening day of the refurbished Pirates of the Caribbean attraction on which the movie series is based. The refurbished attraction includes an adjusted storyline and Audio-Animatronics based on the movies and opened June 26, 2006. The same attraction at Walt Disney World in Florida also underwent refurbishment and reopened on July 7, 2006 in conjunction with the film's theatrical release.

Plot

Template:Spoiler The film begins in Port Royal, Jamaica on what is meant to be the wedding day of Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). However, their misadventures at the end of the previous film, rescuing Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from the hangman's noose, come back to haunt them with the arrival of Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company. He has arrest warrants for the couple and James Norrington (Jack Davenport), who had resigned from his position as Commodore some months earlier (and thus is not present). Because they allowed Jack Sparrow to escape, Beckett calls for the execution of all three involved. Beckett then offers Will a reprieve if he can retrieve Jack's "broken" compass (which, in reality, points towards one's true desire) for the Company. Beckett also threatens to hang Elizabeth (who is currently being held in prison), should Will fail to retrieve the compass. It is later revealed that Beckett wants the compass to locate the Dead Man's Chest (which holds Davy Jones' heart) to have power over the sea and its pirates.

Will's father "Bootstrap Bill" Turner (Stellan Skarsgård), appears to Captain Jack to give him the Black Spot and warn him that it is time to repay an old debt to the legendary Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) — ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the Flying Dutchman. Jack's debt was for Davy Jones reviving the Black Pearl and making Sparrow captain of the Pearl for thirteen years. To chase up the debt, Davy Jones has released the Kraken. Jack must find a way out of his debt or is doomed to serve as part of Davy Jones' crew for a century.

Meanwhile, Will is seeking Jack's compass. After a fruitless search for Jack, Will finally gets word that the Black Pearl is abandoned on a remote island. Travelling there, he is captured by a tribe of cannibals who have also crowned Jack as their king. Jack's predicament is explained by the crew of the Black Pearl (whom Will ends up trapped with): the local cannibals believe Jack is a god and must be killed and eaten in order to be freed from his "fleshy prison" (his mortal vessel). Jack, Will, and the surving prisoners attempt to escape. They eventually meet back at the Pearl where they find Ragetti (Mackenzie Crook) and Pintel (Lee Arenberg) trying to steal the Pearl on their own. As they are on the run from the cannibals, Ragetti and Pintel are immediately accepted into the crew (note: they had recently escaped from prison, bring the dog with the prison cell keys (appeared in the first movie as well) with them. When they leave aboard the Pearl, they leave it behind, and the cannibals chase it along the beach).

Aboard the Pearl, Jack tells Will he will give him the compass as long as Will gets him the key to a chest where Davy Jones keeps his heart. In a visit "up river" to Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), they swap Barbossa's undead monkey (also named Jack) for information on Davy Jones and the location of the Flying Dutchman. Tia also gives Jack a jar of dirt. She tells Will the legend of Davy Jones, that he had cut out his own heart because of love. She also explains that Davy Jones cannot set foot on land for another decade, so the dirt in the jar is the land that will protect Jack.

Left to right: Maccus, Davy Jones and Hadrus

The Pearl comes upon a wrecked ship that Jack says is the Flying Dutchman. Will rows to the ship to find the key. However, Jack is in fact leading Will into a trap. Davy Jones uses dying sailors on wrecked ships to harvest his crew. Will goes on board, sees that the remaining crew is no threat, and watches as the real Dutchman rises from the bottom of the sea. The wrecked ship is boarded, and Will is attacked by Davy Jones's crewmen and is eventually knocked out. Davy Jones examines Will, Will conveys Jack's message that he came to repay his debt. Jones concludes that Jack is nearby and confronts him. Davy Jones and Jack Sparrow begin to haggle over how much Jack's soul is worth (100 souls, according to Jones). Jack gains a temporary reprieve from the kraken and Will unknowingly becomes a part of Jones' crew. Jack sets sail for Tortuga to find some souls to recruit.

At the same time, Elizabeth Swann is rescued by her father, who intends to send her off to safety in England. However, the attempt is foiled by Beckett's henchman, Mercer. Elizabeth manages to escape while her father is captured. She finds Beckett in his office and confrotns him with a pistol, demanding a letter of marque — a letter that designates the holder as an official privateer in service to the Crown — with which Lord Beckett had intended to entice Jack Sparrow. Elizabeth then escapes to sea, intending to use the letters to save Will. After sneaking on board a merchant vessel, she tricks the captain into taking port in Tortuga so as to find Will or Jack. Jack and Mr. Gibbs are there in a pub, recruiting souls with little success aside from a few incompetents. Ex-Commodore Norrington attempts to sign aboard, starts a brawl while trying to kill Jack, and is stunned by Elizabeth who gathers him up and leads him to the Pearl. Once all are aboard the Pearl, Jack convinces Elizabeth that the only way she can find Will is by finding Davy Jones' heart, and that finding the heart is therefore the thing she wants most in the entire world. With this conviction, she is able to use Jack's compass (where its full powers are now revealed) to navigate the Pearl to the location of the chest. Jack needs Elizabeth's help in this way because, ever since the start of the movie, the compass has not been "working" for him (in the sense that it no longer points to the thing he thinks he wants most). Of course, as Tia notes earlier, the problem lies not with the compass but with Jack himself, who apparently does not know what he truly wants.

Meanwhile, on the Flying Dutchman, Will meets his father. After having the nature of the Flying Dutchman explained to him, Will challenges Davy Jones to a game of Liar's dice in an attempt to win the key, with Will offering up his own soul for an eternity of service on the Dutchman if he loses. As they sit down to play, Davy Jones reveals where the key is hidden, which (we later learn) was Will's real motive for making the challenge. But Bootstrap, unaware of his son's true motive, joins the game and matches Will's wager in order to save his son from losing the bet. After a few rounds, Bootstrap realizes his son is going to lose, and throws the game by placing a bet that is obviously too high. Soon after, Will uses his newfound knowledge of the key's whereabouts to steal it from Davy Jones's person while he sleeps. With the key in his possession, Will promises his father he will one day free him from his servitude, and he then rows to a ship, which happens to be the very same one Elizabeth took to Tortuga. Davy Jones soon catches the ship Will is on and summons the Kraken, who promptly destroys the ship and kills all aboard. Will barely escapes the monster's wrath, and stows away on the Flying Dutchman. Davy Jones, aware of the threat to his heart, sets sail for the island where it is buried. The island's name is Isla Cruces.

Both crews arrive at the island much at the same time, even though Davy Jones must send his crew to retrieve the chest as he himself cannot set foot on land for another decade. Jack, Norrington and Elizabeth are the first to reach the spot where the chest is buried, which they attempt to pinpoint using Jack's compass. Their attempt is stymied briefly by the fact that when Elizabeth holds the compass it no longer points reliably to the chest, but instead often points to Jack — a fact that perturbs Elizabeth herself and that appears to confirm Norrington's earlier accusation, aboard the Pearl that Elizabeth's heart has begun to wander away from her "most recent fiancé" and toward the pirate captain. When Jack examines the compass, it points to Elizabeth, and he then deduces that she's sitting right on top of their goal (when the compass pointed back at Jack for Elizabeth, it may have either been pointing to Jack or the spot where the chest was, as they were in the same line with the compass). The trio manage to find a chest buried in the sand, which contains letters (presumably to or from the woman who broke Davy Jones's heart) and also a smaller chest that holds the audibly beating heart itself. Will appears shortly afterwards, having arrived as a stowaway on the Dutchman, and he is reunited briefly with Elizabeth. (During this reunion, Jack and Norrington can be seen, looking particularly vexed.) Jack, Will, and Norrington reveal their separate plans for the heart and engage in a fierce three-way sword battle, while Elizabeth attempts to break up the scuffle. While the four are occupied, Ragetti and Pintel attempt to steal the chest for themselves; Elizabeth notes this, and gives chase. Once she corners them, she discovers that she is unarmed. The timely arrival of Davy Jones' crew forces the three to battle the monsters together. After a spectacular fight in and atop a rolling waterwheel Jack manages to get away from Will and Norrington. He opens the dropped chest, taking Davy Jones' heart and closing it again. He puts the heart in his vest and then runs back to the longboat, depositing the heart into his jar of dirt. Eventually, while Jack is distracted, Norrington sees both the chest and the jar of dirt in the longboat. He makes the "brave" gesture of taking the chest and running with it to draw Davy Jones' crew away from the others, allegedly to help them make their escape, not telling them that he has already taken the heart from the jar. Jack, still thinking that he has the heart, agrees and the others flee. Norrington is cornered by Davy Jones' crew, but plays the coward and drops the chest to run away while they laugh in unison.

After Will, Elizabeth, and Jack escape from the island, the crew of the Dutchman brings the chest to Davy Jones, who then gives orders to chase the Pearl. The Pearl, however, outruns the Dutchman (as Jones' ship only excels in moving against the wind. The Pearl, on the other hand, is able to take advantage of the fact that the wind is blowing it away from the Dutchman, and Sparrow's ship outruns Jones'). After Davy Jones fails in catching the Pearl, he summons the Kraken. Will realizes that the Kraken is on its way (as it is his second Kraken-related experience), so he warns the crew about it. The beast arrives, but is driven off when Will orders all the cannons to be simultaneously shot through the Kraken's tentacles. Taking advantage of the momentary peace, the crew begins to pile their stores of gunpowder and rum together, the plan being that a shot could be fired into it. The cache would then explode, further wounding the Kraken. While the crew awaits the oncoming monster, the jar holding the dirt is broken and emptied, revealing that the heart is no longer in it. Jack desperately searches what is left (frantically exclaiming, "Where's the thump-thump?!") as the crew prepares once more to defend the ship from the Kraken, which returns and immediately destroys all the cannons. During the battle, Elizabeth catches sight of Jack rowing away from the boat, and calls him a coward. Moments later, as Jack is rowing away from the embattled ship, he is shown looking at his compass, and it is implied that it points back to the Pearl and the crew on it (and possibly right to Elizabeth). It is during that final battle against the Kraken that Elizabeth runs into Jack, who has returned to save the day. He fires a shot into the trap of gunpowder, which explodes and blasts the Kraken's tentacles to pieces. It returns to the water, but Jack knows that it will certainly return. He gives the painful order to abandon ship.

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Captain Jack Sparrow before he is consumed by the Kraken

Elizabeth realizes the Kraken is specifically after Jack. As the crew is climbing off the Pearl into a rowboat, Elizabeth turns to Jack and kisses him passionately. As she does, Will (who is climbing down the ship to the wooden "lifeboat") witnesses the kiss and is clearly hurt by what he sees. Elizabeth's kiss distracts Jack enough so that she can chain Jack to the mast of the doomed Pearl. She tells Jack at this point that her action is the only way to save the others, and that she is not sorry for it, although later she seems truly saddened by what she has done. (This is an interesting turning point for Jack and Elizabeth: Jack has seemingly decided to show his good side by returning to help at the risk of his own life, while Elizabeth for once throws her own sense of honor and decency to the wind, both by kissing Jack, and by chaining him to the mast to save herself and the crew. There are also two specific scenes in which the voodoo compass wavers towards Jack while under the influence of Elizabeth, insinuating some ulterior feelings on her part.) As she climbs into the lifeboat in which the survivors will escape, Elizabeth answers Will's cold inquiry about Jack that he decided to remain aboard to give them a chance of escape, and they row away. Jack manages to slip out of his shackles just as the Kraken appears on all sides of the ship, trapping him. Jack grabs his sword, and the last we see of him, he is smiling and saying, "Hello, beastie." He charges, sword drawn, into the beast's jaw as the monster drags the Pearl beneath the waves. Davy Jones sees this and proclaims Jack's debt fulfilled. However, he then demands to see the chest. After realizing his heart has been stolen, he looks up into the sky and shouts, "DAMN YOU, JACK SPARROW!"

Norrington then reappears in Port Royal and reports to Beckett, demanding a full pardon bearing the letters of Marque, having filled in his own name. To Beckett's surprise, Norrington does not deliver Sparrow's magical compass. Instead, he drops a sack onto the desk, containing Davy Jones' heart. The Pearl's survivors revisit Tia Dalma, where the sullen crew drinks a toast to Jack. Tia Dalma then asks if any of them would truly wish to bring Jack and the Black Pearl back, and each of the seven survivors says they would (though, Will only agrees after Elizabeth gives a tearfull "yes"). Tia says if they are to manage this, they will need to go to a place called World's End, and will need a strong captain who knows those waters. At this, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who was shot by Jack just before Will drops the coins into the chest, ending the curse in the first film, descends the spiral starcase. To the others' shocked stares, he asks, "So tell me, what's become of my ship?" then bites into a green apple with a smile as his faithful monkey jumps to his shoulder and lets out a scream.

After the end credits, there is a very brief scene showing the dog (which we last saw being chased by the cannibals) proudly sitting atop the same "throne" that Jack had been sitting in, holding a human bone in his mouth. Template:Endspoiler

Cast

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest teaser poster.

Actor	Role
Johnny Depp	Captain Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom	Will Turner
Keira Knightley	Elizabeth Swann
Stellan Skarsgård	"Bootstrap Bill" Turner
Bill Nighy	Davy Jones
Jack Davenport	James Norrington
Kevin McNally	Joshamee Gibbs
Jonathan Pryce	Governor Weatherby Swann
Tom Hollander	Lord Cutler Beckett
Mackenzie Crook	Ragetti
Lee Arenberg	Pintel
Martin Klebba	Marty
Naomie Harris	Tia Dalma
David Bailie	Cotton
Dermot Keaney	Maccus
David Schofield	Mercer
Alex Norton	Captain Bellamy
Geoffrey Rush	Captain Barbossa

Reactions

Box office

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest grossed $55.8 million on its opening day, setting records for the largest opening day, the largest single day gross, and the largest Friday gross of all time. The previous record was held by Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith with $50,013,859. The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest opening weekend gross stands at $135,634,554 which beats the previous all time opening weekend set by Spider-Man with $114,844,116. Even taking into account the fact that ticket prices were higher for this movie than they were when Spider-Man debuted, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest still sold about two hundred thousand more tickets than Spider-Man did. The film is also the fastest to gross $100 million, doing so in only two days, as well as the fastest to gross $200 million and $300 million achieving those milestones in eight and sixteen days, respectively. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has set more than 17 box office records. As of July 30, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has grossed over $358 million domestically (surpassing the domestic take of its predecessor) and over $572 million worldwide, making it 2006's highest-grossing movie in North America and the third highest worldwide.

Critics

The film has a 53% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the only consensus being that the film is overly long (2 hours, 31 minutes) and the plot incoherent. In contrast, Dead Man's Chest currently holds a 7.4/10 user rating on the Internet Movie Database with 34,158 votes. Early reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest were initially positive, but the days following the film's theatrical release revealed a virtual down-the-middle split between critics who thought it was a good piece of entertainment and those who believed otherwise. One critic, Michael Medved, gave the film two stars (out of four), calling the plot "sloppy,...convoluted and insipid." On the other hand, Michael Booth of the Denver Post awarded the movie three and a half stars, praising it as "two hours and 20 minutes of escapism that once again makes the movies safe for guilt-free fun." Johnny Depp's return performance as Captain Jack Sparrow was warmly welcomed by most, though several prominent bloggers decried the changes made to Captain Sparrow's character. While the action and CG sequences were said to be well done, some critics felt that the plot was patchy, with the film relying on an overabundance of humor, special effects and action scenes.

Walt Disney Pictures has been questioned by the National Garifuna Council, a representative body of the Garifuna people, for what they feel is a racist portrayal of the Calinago, or Caribs, as cannibals in Dead Man's Chest. The Council called for what they considered to be a fair and accurate representation, and Disney responded that the script could not be altered. No known changes were made to the film.

Trivia

• In the scene where the Kraken is first summoned, it mistakenly attacks a ship manned by two sailors, the first one speaking in Turkish Cypriot dialect, and the second one in Greek Cypriot dialect. One of the sailors finds Jack Sparrow's hat and puts it on, commenting that he is 'now a captain,' after which the ship disappears under the sea. An argument between the sailor who found the hat (Turkish Cypriot) and the other one (Greek Cypriot) takes place before the disapearance of the ship, in which the Greek Cypriot takes possession of the hat, brags about how good he looks in it... Upon hearing the noise of the Kraken, the sailor speaking in Greek Cypriot gets scared and takes the hat off, trying to give it to the Turkish Cypriot (who refuses it) while saying "I don't want it anymore" (and then the ship sinks).
• The movie includes a post-credits scene featuring the dog with the keys and what happens to him and the cannibals.
• This is the first time Johnny Depp has portrayed the same character in more than one movie. Johnny Depp has also said that he is willing to continue the role of Jack Sparrow beyond the current trilogy.
• For a dose of authenticity in the final twist at the end of the film, the actors were not told, prior to filming, that Geoffrey Rush would be appearing in the movie. They were told, before the scene was shot, that the person coming down the stairs would be Anamaria from The Curse of the Black Pearl; the looks of surprise on their faces as Rush descends is genuine.
• Stellan Skarsgård and Jonathan Pryce also both appear in the movie Ronin but this is the first movie they do not share scenes.
• Legendary rocker Keith Richards, Depp's personal friend and inspiration for his flamboyant pirate persona, had originally agreed to appear in a cameo role as Jack Sparrow's father, but had to pull out due to a commitment with the Rolling Stones concert tour. He has now signed on to appear in a short cameo role in the third movie.
• The movie is tied into Virtual Magic Kingdom with players being able to win items from the official site. Items include a Captain Jack costume, a poster, a Davy Jones Organ, a Skeleton Monkey, and a Dead Man's Chest. The Captain Jack costume code however is extremely difficult to get, with a code generated for it only once every so many codes.
• For the film's release, the Walt Disney Company had the Pirates of the Caribbean rides in Walt Disney World and Disneyland redesigned to feature captain Jack Sparrow, Barbossa, and an appearance by the films' supernatural character Davy Jones as part of the attraction and reopened on the film's opening day.
• Tia Dalma's firefly-surrounded dwelling resembles a small shack seen at the beginning of the famous Disneyland ride.
• In the first visit to Tia Dalma's shack, there are clues that foreshadow Barbossa's resurrection.
  • The undead monkey is seen interacting with someone offscreen with black, pirate-like boots.
  • The monkey seems to recognize whoever this may be.
  • Jack steals a ring that was worn by Barbossa (in the scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl when Barbossa reaches out into the moonlight, you can see that it is the same ring).
  • Jack is briefly shown handling a hat that looks like the one worn by Barbossa.
  • The music playing while the crew approaches the shack is the theme of the pirates and Barbossa in the first movie.
• The Tortuga scene was inspired by part of the Disney attraction, and stuck closely to it, with the wild pirate revelers looking almost exactly like the theme park ride, particularly in the way they appear to chase each other in small circles akin to the animatronic counterparts on the ride.
• The completely computer-generated Davy Jones turned out to be so realistic that many reviewers have mistakenly identified Nighy as wearing prosthetic makeup.
• Many of the Tortuga scenes were unused shots from the first film and were on the second DVD of the collector's edition of the first film of Pirates.
• So far both movies of the series prominently feature references to iconic pirate songs; in the first the song Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) is sung by several characters, most prominently Elizabeth and Jack, and a variation of it is featured in several scores in the movie, while in the second the title (and, subsequently, the treasure) reference the song Dead Man's Chest.
• This was the first movie featuring the new Disney production logo.
• The skull on the film's poster has a voodoo doll resembling Jack hanging from it. It also shares the red map Jack wears about his head.
• When Jack takes a ring from Tia Dalma's table, a heart-shaped locket is visible. When Will is getting the key from Davy Jones, a very similar looking locket is seen open on the organ.
• In the first two movies, references were made to Singapore. But modern Singapore was only founded in 1819 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles as a trading post for the British East India Company. Though an official date for the setting is not given, the movie is most likely set around 1720, the Golden Age of Piracy. Before 1819, Singapore was only known as Temasek and later, Singapura.
• The East India Company was formed to trade with India and the East Indies and operated there and in the waters between there and the United Kingdom. The film is set in the West Indies, on the other side of the globe.
• This is the second Walt Disney Pictures film to receive a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, the first being the previous Pirates film.
• Davey Jones' tentacle beard is comparable to the beard of Captain LeChuck from the Monkey Island series of videogames, specifically his wriggly, apparently living beard from Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge. Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has stated on his blog that "if I'd thought of the squid tentacles for a beard, I would have done that." (Source: [1])

References to the first film

There are various references throughout the movie to scenes and lines that were in the first film. These include, but are not limited to:

• Governor Swann accidentally pulls a candlestick off the prison wall, mirroring Will pulling one off of the Governor's wall in the first film.
• When Lord Cutler Beckett says in the beginning, "Jack Sparrow", Will and Elizabeth correct him saying, "Captain" which is a reference to what Jack always said when people didn't call him a captain.
• Jack asks "Why is rum always gone?", and advises people to keep the rum away from Elizabeth. This mirrors a scene in the first film, in which Elizabeth destroyed a large cache of rum. Jack (who had particularly enjoyed the rum), had asked, "Why is rum gone?" twice. Later in the second film, when Jack recognizes Elizabeth as one of the new crew signed on in Tortuga, he turns to a crewman and orders, "Hide the rum!"
• While Will was searching for Jack, one of the fellows reported that Jack could definitely be found in Singapore. In the first movie, when Jack saves Elizabeth by removing her corset, one of the soldiers remarked that he wouldn't have thought of that, and Jack responded "Clearly, you've never been to Singapore."
• Another reference to rum is during an attempt to repel the Kraken; finding out there is no more gunpowder, Will gives the order to use the rum for the explosive device and the crew looked at each other in shock at this statement.
• Captain Barbossa is portrayed eating an apple which he craved for in the first movie.
• While Will is searching for Jack at Tortuga, he runs into Giselle and Scarlett. During their brief meeting Giselle slaps Will in the face as a message to be given to Jack; this is a nod to the first film when Jack and Will visit Tortuga where Scarlett and Giselle slap Jack in the face.
• The lines in the second film:

Jack: How did you get here?

Will: Sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to my feet.

Jack: Not so easy, is it?

directly references the story Gibbs tells Will to explain how Jack escaped from Rum Island before the events of the first film.

• Just before the crew of the Black Pearl is to leave the island that the Dead Man's Chest is buried on, Jack hits Will over the head with an oar. Will did this to Jack in the first film.
• While Jack, Will, & Norrington are swordfighting, Elizabeth tries to break it up by pretending to faint from the heat to get them to save her, this references the first film when she fainted due to the corset and fell from the fort, and when she fainted when Jack was about to be executed.
• While in the prison corridor at Port Royal, Governor Swann asks "Now where is that dog with the keys?". This is a reference to the dog being the guardian of the prison keys in the first movie, where prisoners often tempted the dog with a bone in an attempt the get the keys.
• Another reference to the dog is made when the prisoners are seen calling to Elizabeth.
• When escaping from the cannibals and Jack was climbing the ship, he says "Alas, my children! This is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost ... [gets splashed by a wave] ... Captain Jack Sparrow". Jack says the same thing at the end of the first film before he falls off the ledge. (Actually, he says this twice in the first movie. First when he escapes after briefly holding Elizabeth hostage and then at the end when he falls off the ledge.)
• In the first movie, when Jack and Will first met and they are fighting, Jack asks Will "You're not a eunuch are you?" He also tells Barbossa he's a eunuch, after the Intercepter explodes. In the second film, when the cannibals bring Will to Jack, he brings it up again saying, "Eunuchy snip-snip" while making a cutting motion with his fingers.
• Jack also describes Will as having a "lovely singing voice" in the first film, in relation to the eunuch joke. In the second film Jack calls Will a "terrific soprano."
• In both films, we first see Jack Sparrow using a rather unorthodox method of transportation in his first scene. In the first film he stands atop the mast of a sinking dinghy. In the second, he uses a coffin and a skeletal leg as a paddle.
• Pintel says "Hello Poppet" to Elizabeth as he did in the first film.
• At the end of the first film Jack tells Norrington he was rooting for him. In the second film Jack says he's still rooting for him.
• In the first scene of The Curse of the Black Pearl, Mr. Gibbs makes Elizabeth stop singing about pirates because its bad luck, he says. In Gibbs first scene in Dead Mans Chest, Gibbs is singing a pirate song himself.
• In one scene of the movie, Ragetii and Pintel are seen on a boat, rowing away. Then a dog appears with a set of keys. This implies they used the whistle and bone trick to attract the dog and retrieve the keys, the hopeful end result in the ride.
• When Jack takes Elizabeth hostage in Curse of the Black Pearl, he remarks, "I knew you'd warm up to me." When Norrington attempts to stop Will from stabbing Davy Jones' heart in Dead Man's Chest, Jack begins to say the same line before Norrington turns on him as well.
• After being knocked out by the oar swung by Jack, Will recovers on the Black Pearl while Elizabeth watches over him similar to the first time they met in the first film.
• Jack (in Curse) is left behind on an island full of enemies and is eventually found as the ship (the Intercepter) tries to escape from the enemy (the Black Pearl) only to fail. Norrington was put in a very similar position in this film, this time with the Pearl escaping the Flying Dutchman, successfully at first until Davy Jones summoned the Kraken.
• A swordfight ends up being fought on strange objects, in Curse it was a wheelbarrow, and in this film it is a giant wheel.

See also

• Dead man's chest
• Davy Jones' Locker
• The Flying Dutchman
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Soundtrack)
• Pirates of the Caribbean 3
• Liar's Dice
• The Black Spot
• Pirates Of The Caribbean video games
• Timeline of the Pirates of the Caribbean Films

External links

• Official site
• Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest Trailer at Funny Clips
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at MySpace (Official)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at IMDb
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• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at Rotten Tomatoes
• Pirate's Dice (Official tie-in game)
• KeepToTheCode.com - The official fan site for the Pirates of the Caribbean films (currently in the process of relaunching)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Xdafied.com.au review
• Dead Man's Chest Online
• Massive exposure for Dominica in latest 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie - July 12, 2006: CaribbeanNetNews.com
• See Davy Jones's Heart here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laEjgFbS5kc