A Treasure Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
(Buena Vista Home Entertainment)

Plunder your purse for coinage to purchase this wicked DVD set. The extra were actually planned before the film was shot­­–that’s a sign of how much producer Jerry Bruckheimer and his team understands the importance of intriguing extra. Personally, just having the DVD so I can watch conniving pirate Cap’n Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), sword maker and reluctant Will Turner (Orland Bloom), and courageous femme and wannabe pirate Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) over and over is almost enough for this wannabe swashbuckler. Not that I’m sayin’ no to the extras, matey…

Setting Sail: The camera followed director Gore Verbinski and the DVd team from the first day of pre-production right through to shooting and post-production, including script development, scouting locations and brainstorming the dice game. Hey guys–you do know pirates don’t plan like this…right?

Curse of the Caribbean: Join the team in hurricane force winds and shark-infested waters for every trial and tribulation of shooting a mammoth production, with huge special effects, on a small Caribbean island. (Still not vile enough to turn me into a landlubber!)

Tall Tales: Every pirate must have some ripping good yarns to tell on those long sea voyages: the adventure story of how the scenes come together.

A Legend in His Own Mind: The mystery of rascal Cap’n Jack’s ensemble revealed, from every bead on his dreadlocked head to his real antique 1740’s sword–plus Johnny Depp’s mythology on why Jack has each item. Much as we love him, note to Jack: the gold isn’t quite enough to camouflage those nasty teeth…

Something’s Fishy: You’ll never feel the same about calamari again, between Bill Nighy’s Shakespearean performance as villain Davy Jones and the cyberscanning technology that makes his every tentacle creep to life.

Comics of the Caribbean: Johnny, Keira and Orlando ham it up when they goof up on the blooper reel.