The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:

"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Elementary-school children (perhaps 8 and up) mature enough to sit through a movie that's 2 hours and 30 minutes long and features cannibals, characters who are part men-part sea creatures, and an enormous sea monster with gigantic tentacles, for starters.

What you should know: This is a sequel to the 2003 blockbuster starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley. It leaves moviegoers dangling on the hook for the third film, due in 2007.

Language: A couple of common four-letter words.

Sexual situations and nudity: Kisses are exchanged.

Violence/scary situations: Birds pluck a captive's eyes. A ship cracks in half and is swallowed by the sea. A man is shot with a dart and trussed up, like a pig ready to be roasted on a spit, while others are imprisoned in giant circular cages fashioned of human bones. Guns, swords, fists and bottles are brandished in fights. Some characters are part ghostly men-part sea creatures, with Davy Jones sporting a disturbing face of wriggling tentacles. A father is forced to lash and bloody his son's bare back. An enormous sea creature rises from the depths. There is an explosion and, for good measure, images of skulls and a beating human heart.

Drug and alcohol use: Rum flows freely.