Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is out now on DVD - and what a nautical treat, says Larushka Ivan-Zadeh. Oh, and Just My Luck is okay too.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
****The first in a two-part helter-skelter sequel to this film/theme park ride franchise re-conjures the original Pirates' magic formula. It's back aboard the good ship Black Pearl for a series of eye-poppingly digitised set-pieces lashed together by an over-tangled plot, which spends too much time trying to capture the secret of eternal life from Davey Jones's Locker. It infuriatingly stops short mid-scene, rather than being a self-contained movie - but no matter, there's still loads of cutlass-waving merriment and Bill Nighy makes an excellent barnacled baddie despite wearing what looks like a squid's bum on his face. Johnny Depp's Cap'n Jack (pictured) is still as mad as a box of parrots and best of all, Keira Knightley's feisty heroine has been beefed up. An adventure that unlocks the thrilled 12-year-old in all of us.
Extras: Commentaries, deleted scenes, special featurettes, making-of, bloopers of the Caribbean.
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, £24.99
Just My Luck
**
Teen queen Lindsay Lohan took time off from cat-fighting with Paris Hilton to make this not-fluffy-enough girlie comedy. She shouldn't have bothered. Just My Luck's 'concept' is that LiLo lives a charmed life as an ab-fab PR with an SATC wardrobe - until a kiss makes her swap fates with the unluckiest guy in town. Unlucky for us too, since he's the unfanciable Chris Pine, a man with less charisma than a trainer insole. Our Lindsay's ability to fairy-light up the screen is dampened by the plot necessity of having her spend most of the story being spotty and miserable. The featured acting debut of Brit boy band McFly gives a clue about the pajama party audience this aims to attract - and trying to remember which of them Lindsay snogged is an added diversion.
Extras: Casting sessions, two McFly 'behind the scenes' featurettes, deleted scenes, McFly concert footage.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, PG, £15.99
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Cert: 12A
