History YMMV / PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest

* AuthorsSavingThrow : One of the few complaints people had about the first movie, is that Jack Sparrow's "broken" compass just happens to be the only thing that can lead you to Isla de Muerta without any proper explanation as to why. This movie gives a proper answer; it's a Magical Compass that points to the thing the user wants most in the world and he got it from a mysterious Voodoo woman called Tia Dalma years before the movies.

* HarsherInHindsight: The wreck of the ''Edinburgh Trader'' at the hands of Davy Jones and the kraken. Six years later, the HMS ''Bounty'', the ship that played ''Trader'', itself ended up in Davy Jones' locker after being wrecked during Hurricane Sandy, killing Captain Robin Walbridge and Claudene Christian.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: [[spoiler:Killing Jack]] for real. It turned out to be a mere OurHeroIsDead and he [[BackFromTheDead gets better]] after being rescued.
* MemeticMutation: The new Seattle Kraken NHL team uses the Kraken's theme song from this movie as the team's intro music.

** Beckett had Will, Elisabeth and Norrington sentenced to death for merely playing a role in Jack's escape, in order to blackmail Turner into getting him the compass showing that he was ready to use and dispose of anyone who had anything that he wanted, pirate or not.

** The three-way sword fight that ends up incorporating a waterwheel comes in at a close second.

** Many Motion Capture characters wear tight fitting or little clothing so the artists can better follow and replicate the actor’s movements. Davy Jones wears a massive long coat and layers upon layers of clothing, all of it constantly dripping and covered in sea life.

'''FridgeBrilliance''':[[spoiler: In ''At World's End'' we find out the woman he loved is a sea goddess, who stood him-up, and whom he subsequently betrayed, to get revenge for it. The sea is the last place he'd want to hide his heart at, because it was a personification of the sea who wounded it in the first place.]]

%%* ValuesDissonance: The portrayal of the Pelegostos as savage cannibals did not make the Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean happy when this film was released in 2006, but this type of portrayal would be impossible to get away with in the current decade.

* ValuesDissonance: The portrayal of the Pelegostos as savage cannibals did not make the Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean happy when this film was released in 2006, but this type of portrayal would be impossible to get away with in the current decade.

** [[spoiler: Jack Sparrow's Dying Moment of Awesome.]] "Hello Beastie."

* AuthorsSavingThrow : One of the few complaints people had about the first movie, is that Jack Sparrow's "broken" compass just happens to be the only thing that can lead you to Isla de Muerta without any proper explanation as to why. This movie give a proper answer; it's a Magical Compass that points to the thing the user wants most in the world and he got it from a mysterious Voodoo woman called Tia Dalma years before the movies.

* AuthorsSavingThrow : One of the few complaints, people had about the first movie is about how inexplicable the Compass that Jack Sparrow has is the only thing who can lead to Isla de Muerta without a proper explanation of why, the movie give a proper answer, is a Magical Compass who pointed to the thing the user most wants in the world and he got it from a mysterious Voodoo woman called Tia Dalma years before the movies.

** The shot where Jack is ChasedByAngryNatives on the Cannibal Island. It's the ImageSource on that page for a reason.

* DesignatedHero: Many found Elizabeth much less sympathetic once she [[spoiler:chains Jack to the ''Pearl'' so the Kraken can kill him.]] This is ignoring the fact that the Kraken was chasing after them because of him, and [[spoiler: handing Jack over]] is the only way to ensure their safety ''at all'', not to mention the fact that she's visibly conflicted over this. Whether or not becoming TheAtoner in the next film redeems her is a case of BrokenBase.
* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Various characters have the book thrown at them for helping Jack in the first movie because, again, a good man ''can'' be at odds with the law.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Pelegostos Tribe. Some like their culture and find it a really fun part of the movie, while others think they take too much time of the main plot and are at the end superflous to the main plot and whish their part was shorter (20 minutes to be exact) and too goofy to be taked seriously, some like the Pelegostos but feel like they belong to a completly different movie.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The movie gets a lot of flak for the scenes with the [[WackyWaysideTribe island natives]] being this, even though the writers wrote it with the intention of showing that Jack wasn't safe anywhere he went, be that on land or water. It's also the resolution to a BrickJoke Johnny Depp [[ThrowItIn ad-libbed]] in the first film.

** Tia Dalma's accent and mannerisms are a bit silly too, but Naomie Harris makes it work.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Everything looks photorealistic, as per the norm for this series, but Davy Jones in particular is one of the absolute best motion capture performances and effects of all time. Of particular note:

** Ian Mercer gets his personal moment when he murders Captain Nathanael in cold blood under the orders of Beckett and calmly quips about it afterwards.

'''FridgeBrilliance''':[[spoiler: In ''At World's End'' we find out the woman he loved is a sea goddess, who stood him-up, and whom he subsequnetly betrayed, to get revenge for it. The sea is the last place he'd want to hide his heart at, because it was a personification of the sea who wounded it in the first place.]]

'''The Result''': [[spoiler: Norrington gets ahold of the Dead Man's Chest and delivers it to Cutler Beckett.]]

* {{Sequelitis}}: It earned a lot of money and awards (being the only film of 2006 to gross $1 billion worldwide), but both critics and fans found it lacking compared to the original. Notably the humour in the first film was actually quite clever and low-key--mostly due to Creator/JohnnyDepp improvising most of his stuff. Thus this film tried to write ''for'' the Jack that Depp had created and the tone became DenserAndWackier. Likewise the first film was more LowFantasy-- with {{Ghost Pirate}}s as the antagonists. This one marked a switch to HighFantasy--involving the [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]], the ''FlyingDutchman'' and the East India Trading Company's plot to take over.
* SignatureScene: The shot where Jack is ChasedByAngryNatives on the Cannibal Island. It's the ImageSource on that page for a reason.

* WhatAnIdiot: Davy Jones can only be killed by stabbing his disembodied heart, which resides in the Dead Man's Chest.
'''You'd Expect''': Jones hides the chest at the bottom of the ocean where only he can get to it.
'''Instead''': He hides it on an island that he can't even set foot on, but the film's protagonists can get to with little trouble.

* {{Sequelitis}}: It earned a lot of money and awards (being the only film of 2006 to gross $1 billion worldwide), but both critics and fans found it lacking compared to the original. Notably the humour in the first film was actually quite clever and low-key--mostly due to Creator/JohnnyDepp improvising most of his stuff. Thus this film tried to write ''for'' the Jack that Depp had created and the tone became DenserAndWackier. Likewise the first film was more LowFantasy-- with {{Ghost Pirate}}s as the antagonists. This one marked a switch to HighFantasy--involving the {{Kraken}}, the ''FlyingDutchman'' and the East India Trading Company's plot to take over.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]] Cutler [[KnightOfCerebus Beckett]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman of the East India Trading Company]], is the BigBad of this film and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd the third film]]. Upon his arrival at Port Royale, Beckett assumes illegal control and has the governor's messenger to the king murdered. Beckett later enslaves Davy Jones, forcing him to kill his pet Kraken and making Jones his personal attack dog of the seas. Governor Swann himself is later murdered when Beckett [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness decides he's of no further use]]. It is made abundantly clear that Beckett's prime motivation is power and control, and as piracy is a threat to that, Beckett [[KnightTemplar initiates a purge of anyone even vaguely associated with piracy]], with all legal proceedings suspended. The result is a massive line of people, many of whom aren't even pirates, taken to the gallows to be hanged. [[WouldHurtAChild Not even children are safe]], as a little boy is shown being hanged as Beckett looks on [[TheStoic without remorse or emotion]].

* DesignatedHero: Many found Elizabeth much less sympathetic once she [[spoiler:chains Jack to the ''Pearl'' so the Kraken can kill him.]] This is ignoring the fact that the Kraken was chasing after them because of him, and [[spoiler: handing Jack over]] is the only way to ensure their safety ''at all''. Whether or not becoming TheAtoner in the next film redeems her is a case of BrokenBase.

* MoralEventHorizon: Davy Jones gets soooooo many moments that stand out. He kills dozens of innocent people in attempting to track down Will and Jack, the innocent foreigners who merely chance upon Jack's hat and the trading crew with the stern captain for starters. Then there is also him ordering the defiant crewman who spurned his offer of crewmanship killed immediately and, in a rage, having the survivors of the aforementioned trading ship slaughtered wholesale without even offering them the chance to take his wretched bargain by saying that there were no survivors. Some fans also believe that he really crossed it when he keeps William Turner prisoner, sets him to be brutally tortured by his own father and then threatens to kill him to spite Bootstrap.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Annamaria does not appear in this, implying that she left the crew at some point. This is apparently due to Creator/ZoeSaldana having such a horrible time filming the first film that she declined the offer to return.

* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler:Barbossa]]. Appears one time at the end of the movie to completely steal it.

* MoralEventHorizon: Some fans believe that Davy Jones really crossed it when he keeps William Turner prisoner, sets him to be brutally tortured and then threatens to kill him with a sinister laugh.

* CompleteMonster: [[AristocratsAreEvil Lord]] Cutler [[KnightOfCerebus Beckett]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Chairman of the East India Trading Company]], is the BigBad of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest second]] and [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third]] films. Upon his arrival at Port Royale, Beckett assumes illegal control and has the governor's messenger to the king murdered.