4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
There's no reason why the follow-up to the surprise Disney smash
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl shouldn't have been a bonafide knockout: after all, almost everyone involved with the first movie, including director Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp (relaunched to worldwide fame after his turn as Captain Jack Sparrow), signed on to be apart of the magic. And then somebody forget they were making a kids' movie. I don't know why or how the storyline for
Dead Man's Chest ended up as ludicrously impenetrable as it did, but it lost me - well and truly - in the first half an hour. Admist the relentless sequences of CGI and bizarre character betrayals,
Chest clings to a story so unnecessarily dense that it's a genuine wonder the whole family managed to sit through this one. Fact is, all we wanted was another "fun" adventure - they over-thought this to point of absurdity.