Kraken Wakes

My fiancée and I were among the throngs of people who saw Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, leaving delighted and amused, contributing to its reported record-setting profitable opening weekend. The fantastic plot continues onward from the first movie, as written in the article, with:

Jack Sparrow (Depp) ... caught up in another tangled web of supernatural intrigue; Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones, Ruler of the Ocean Depths, who captains the ghostly Flying Dutchman. Unless the ever-crafty Jack figures a cunning way out of this Faustian pact, he will be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.

The anonymous writer of this online article has a knack for glossing the movie's imaginative, mythical plot without making the movie sound trite; something it is not. I should say, whomever is responsible for writing the script for these movies has a clever wit as well as an ear for everything from self-deprecation, humorous timing, Deep's quirky swagger for acting, combined with a mish-mash of nautical cliché and myth (Davy Jones [pictured above left] sends a great sea-beast , the Kraken, after Sparrow and his crew, and about whose mythical origins, quite comically, two endearing illiterate pirates share witty, and quite memorable, learned discussions over the course of the movie).