| Overall: | B |
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| Violence: | C- |
| Sexual Content: | B+ |
| Language: | A- |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C |
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| Video Release: | 04 Dec 2006 |
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This movie is the continuing saga of the characters introduced in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The saga continues in the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. A spirit of insurrection leads to Mutiny on the Bounty in the 1935 film adaptation of a real life story about a group of seafaring men turned outlaws.
Home Video Extra Features
DVD Release Date: 5 December 2006
Sailing onto DVD in time for the Christmas gift-giving season, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is available in either a single or double disc version. Both offer the feature presentation, an audio commentary with writers Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio, as well as the Bloopers Of The Caribbean.
But if you are hunting for the real bonus treasures, you’ll find those only in the 2-Disc Edition. If you chose this option, the gems you can look forward to are: Charting The Return (a pre-production documentary), According To Plan: The Harrowing and True Story of Dead Man’s Chest, Captain Jack: From Head To Toe, Mastering The Blade (for Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Jack Davenport), Meet Davy Jones: Anatomy Of A Legend, Creating The Kraken, Dead Men Tell New Tales: Re-Imagineering The Attraction, Jerry Bruckheimer: A Producer’s Photo Diary, Fly On The Set: The Bone Cage, and Pirates on Main Street: The Dead Man’s Chest Premiere. Audio tracks are available in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound in English, French and Spanish, with subtitles in Spanish and French. The movie is also close captioned for the hearing impaired.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is also part of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Four-Pack Collection, which releases to home video on October 18, 2011.
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
