Sure, such a dazed swagger is neatly consistent with its lead character’s now trademark, drunken-sailor gait, but a more direct route would have been far, far better. It’s rather that the plot contortions required to get them – along with Jack Davenport’s Norrington and Mackenzie Crook and Lee Arenberg’s comic-relief cut-throats – in the same frame leaves Dead Man’s Chest convoluted and stumbling, zigzagging its way forward over a too-long runtime. It’s not so much that putting Johnny, Keira and Orlando back together is inherently a mistake. But here’s a possibly controversial, certainly upsetting, proposition: Pirates 2, aka Dead Man’s Chest, would have benefited by jettisoning much of the original cast, and following Captain Jack into different waters. From The Empire Strikes Back through to X-Men 2, the reinvigoration of winning team dynamics has ensured follow-ups that, at the very least, match their predecessors. Everybody loves it when a sequel reunites the original cast.
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