Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Captain Jack Sparrow is back and racing against time to seize the heart of Davy Jones so he won't be bound to Jones' service forever. As Jack pursues that prize, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann get pulled into a web of uneasy alliances, shifting loyalties, and competing agendas. Each faction, from greedy pirates to the East India Trading Company, wants control of the heart for very different reasons. Supernatural menace hangs over every choice, since Jones and his crew answer to their own cruel bargains. The film mixes frantic chases and cunning cons with eerie sea magic, keeping the focus on cunning, survival, and the heavy costs of old promises, at sea.

Released in 2006, the film was directed by Gore Verbinski, with a screenplay shaped by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio and Jay Wolpert, continuing the blockbuster pirate world introduced in the first film, produced amid high expectations and elaborate practical effects.

The movie was a huge box office success worldwide, solidifying the franchise's commercial clout and prompting a fast-tracked third installment, becoming one of the year's top grossers and expanding the series' global appeal among broad audiences in 2006 release windows.

Davy Jones, with his tentacled face and the eerie look of the flying Dutchman, became one of modern cinema's most recognizable supernatural antagonists, and Jack Sparrow's oddball swagger kept becoming a touchstone in pop culture, inspiring costumes, parodies, theme park tie-ins and renewed interest in pirate media worldwide audiences alike.

Critics were mixed on pacing and plot complexity, but many praised the visual effects, sound design and Bill Nighy's eerie turn as Davy Jones. Audiences responded well, the film reinforced Johnny Depp's game-changing portrayal of Jack Sparrow, and it raised conversation about debt, legacy and conflicting loyalties across characters worldwide.