Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest @ Amazon

2006′s sequel to Curse of the Black Pearl was as inevitable as it was anticipated. People, it seemed, couldn’t get enough of Jack Sparrow and Dead Man’s Chest broke all sorts of records on its opening day, and ended up netting over $1 billion worldwide. Crazy.

But while there’s no denying its success, this film has become one of Criticker’s most bitterly fought-over, with an extremely high FCQ of 52.06 (Film Contentiousness Quotient, details here). The higher the FCQ, the more contentious the film. For comparison’s sake, the first Pirates of the Caribbean had an FCQ of 15.53 (almost everyone loved it), while the third, At World’s End, rings in at 37.71 (most hated it).

User opinions pretty much matched the film’s critical reception: reviews were all over the place, with some praising the roller-coaster ride of a story as wonderful escapism, and other bemoaning how convoluted and pointless it all seemed.

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Here are a couple battling opinions from Criticker users.

Neil Miller: “Despite a few shortfalls at the end of its tale, Dead Man’s Chest is a delightful movie theater experience. It has every element that we have come to love from great summer movies of the past; heart-pounding action, expert comedic timing, and characters that we will not soon forget”

peba: “I prefer the ride at Walt Disney World”

The jury has rendered its opinion in the case of I Am Sam, and we finally have our first guilty verdict. You have decided that I Am Sam is TERRIBLE (but only by a single vote!)

And just to prove that we don’t always have to disagree, here are two more films that are the opposite of contentious:
Unanimously Crap (FCQ 0.27): Son of the Mask. Try your hardest, you will not be able to think of something less necessary or demanded by the general public than an 11-years-later sequel to The Mask.
Unanimously Sweet (FCQ 2.49): Modern Times. Charlie Chaplin never gets old.