Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Blu-ray

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

 (2006)

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Charming rogue pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is back for a grand, swashbuckling, nonstop joyride filled with devilish pirate humor, monstrous sea creatures, and breathtaking black magic. Now Jack's got a blood debt to pay — he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghostly Ruler of the Ocean Depths...but ever-crafty Jack isn't about to go down without a fight. Along the way, dashing Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and the beautiful Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) get caught up in the thrilling whirlpool of misadventures stirred up in Jack's quest to avoid eternal damnation by seizing the fabled Dead Man's Chest!

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Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Bill Nighy
Director: Gore Verbinski

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Blu-ray, Video Quality

 

But forget about plot and character development and feast your eyes on the tropical paridises, oceanscapes, and CGI marvels of Dead Man's Chest. The pristine 1080P MPEG-4 AVC codec showcases reference-quality resolution, similar to Curse of the Black Pearl. Walt Disney Pictures is to be commended yet again for delivering clarity and attention to detail in what seems to be every frame. That goes not just for Dead Man's Chest, but for several of the films Disney has released on Blu-ray disc thus far.

From the open seas to bayou waterways to marine lairs deep beneath the water's surface, the picture is delivered with depth and staggering realism. Even the special effects have a life of their own. Watch the tentacles that hang from the octopus-faced Davy Jones. The details of the organic movement are displayed as effortlessly as the frown and furrowed brow of Keira Knightley. Or the surprise, defeat and copious eyeshadow in Johnny Depp's visage as he learns he has the "black mark". This is a wonderful advantage of 1080P: to effortlessly communicate facial expressions and even the most subtle visual cues of the actors that are lost in lower resolution.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 

The greatest achievement in this film may not be a CGI or 1080P visual at all. The audio is an absolute stunner--a system stretcher for any reference home theater. The deck or hull of a ship is a fantastic stage to feed the ears an assortment of sounds, from the lapping of water to the creaking of floorboards to the whisper of the wind and footsteps on the floorboards. Dead Man's Chest delivers. All the sonic cues are there, with disarming presence that make us feel like we are in the action, not sitting in our HT room. As with the BD of Pirates 1, Disney provides 5.1 channels of uncompressed PCM. At 24 bit and 48 kHz, the voices, music and sound effects are fully resolved in a way that goes beyond CD sound (16 bit, 44.1 kHz).

The most awesome audio display in Dead Man's Chest is the attack of the kraken, a mysterious deep-sea creature resembling a giant squid. In sailor lore, the kraken is rumored to take entire ships down. Since only pieces of the creature are seen, Dead Man's Chest relies on audio to communicate the full terror of an attack. It is the brief symphony of sounds that communicates the presence and power of the kraken. Listen to the deep bass rumble crescendo to a mid-bass roar as the sound of splintering wood and human cries mix in the otherworldly crush of the ship's hull. The effects are mixed and mastered to perfection and at high volumes will shake your floorboards and rattle your windows, mateys.

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