{"id":1367,"date":"2006-07-29T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/reviews\/movies\/pirates_carribean_dead_man_chest.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:16:46","slug":"pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-mans-chest-%e2%80%93-we-want-drama-not-theme-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest<\/em> \u2013 We want drama, not theme parks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0461136\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for the extraordinary actress\">Keira Knightley<\/a> is just not the kind of woman that should be put into glamorous costumes with lush hair. To see her real beauty, one must see her fine features contrast with a harsh style of clothing and behaviour. Luckily, in <em>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&#8217;s Chest<\/em> she is granted at least a few of these moments. In addition, we are also allowed to feel more affection for her since now she also is permitted to show her interest in Captain Jack Sparrow more \u2026 explicitly. Good thing. I guess, though, that this is the only actual improvement over the first part of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. It is still a clean story without real drama, without real frustration \u2013 without the desperately hoped for grittiness of characters. Instead, it again featured scenes playing in the dreaded pirate theme park called <em>Tortuga<\/em> in this movie. Bah.<br \/>\n<q>Small expectations<\/q> \u2013 that was the title which I thought would be appropriate for this entry, because watching this movie actually was a fun experience. A much better experience than watching the first part. Lovely tentacles, and a well designed face of horror and pity for the enigma that is Captain Davy Jones. After some reflection about the movie, however, it became apparent that this is only because our expectations were much, much lower than what we allowed us (I went to see it with Kerstin and Olli) to grow before watching the first part. Pirates! Adventure! Loss! Love! The Sea! Well, all of this is there \u2013 only in the sad and pitifully clean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000988\/\" title=\"IMDb entry for the producer of clean and boring and bland movies\">Jerry Bruckheimer<\/a> production kind of way. We can only be thankful to Johnny Depp and are paying our tributes to him for keeping the movie alive and enchanting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0383574\/\"><abbr title=\"Internet Movie Database\">IMDb<\/abbr> entry<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/disney\/piratesofthecaribbeandeadmanschest\/\" title=\"QuickTime plugin required\">Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keira Knightley is just not the kind of woman that should be put into glamorous costumes with lush hair. To see her real beauty, one must see her fine features contrast with a harsh style of clothing and behaviour. 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