Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

“This is Davy Jones - of locker fame - and if that sounds like a cliché too far even for a camp pirate flick, Jones, played by Bill Nighy, and his crew are to this film what Depp was to its predecessor. They’re like a bad acid trip at the sealife centre. They sail in a living wreck and have bodies composed of aquatic lifeforms: one has the head of a hammerhead shark, another has cheeks like a pufferfish, and Jones himself has a giant lobster claw for a hand, and a wonderfully slimy octopus head with a prehensile beard of tentacles, through which he barks the fruitiest Scottish brogue this side of the Simpsons’ Groundskeeper Willie. It’s a triumph of special effects that this cephalopod creation is both unnervingly freakish, yet unmistakably Bill Nighy.”

Read the article in the Guardian

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    Natalie
    July 12th, 2006 | 2:41 pm

    Although I did not know that Bill was starring in Pirates of the Caribbean (didn’t really see the trailers) I instantly recognised his voice when he spoke. Very distinctive isn’t it. He was a masterful Davy Jones. I very much enjoyed the movie.

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    July 12th, 2006 | 3:31 pm

    I absolutely agree. And when you do know he is playing Davy Jones, you can recognize a lot of his face expression and the body language of the character too. Very well done, both by Bill and the CGI artists.

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    Sarah
    January 11th, 2007 | 10:08 am

    From Dead Man’s Chest I learned about him. He is really a great actor. I think one of the best.

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    January 29th, 2007 | 6:01 pm

    yeah, along with all the other actors who are playing: Davy jones’s crew! It seems difficult to me to play things you never can in real life! (sorry for my bad English, I’m a Dutch girl, savvy?)

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