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.
