Were they serving rum to the west-side critics?

Despite having earned – as of today – a total of $326 million, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” has earned generally negative reviews across the country.

Click here for Stephanie Zacharek ’s review on Salon.com.
Click here for A.O. Scott ’s review in the New York Times.
Click here for Steven Rea ’s review in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Click here for Jonathan Rosenbaum ’s review in the Chicago Reader.
Click here for Carina Chocano ’s review in the Los Angeles Times.
Click here for Richard Schickel ’s review in Time Magazine.

You can’t blame include those west-side Northwest critics in the consensus, though.

Click here for Moira MacDonald ’s review in the Seattle Times.
Click here for Shawn Levy ’s review in Portland’s The Oregonian.
Click here for Sean Axmaker ’s review in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Below: Johnny Depp, as Capt. Jack Sparrow, and Orlando Bloom have helped make “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” one of the most successful film in Hollywood history. And that’s certainly a sentiment that three Northwest critics agree with.

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