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The visuals are top notch but Tim Burton never finds a consistent rhythm, mixing campy jokes and gothic spookiness with less success than other Johnny Depp collaborations.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
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The visuals are top notch but Tim Burton never finds a consistent rhythm, mixing campy jokes and gothic spookiness with less success than other Johnny Depp collaborations.
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Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the
May 11, 2012 Wide
Oct 2, 2012
$79.7M
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This is not so much a coherent movie as it is a long, expensive joke in search of a purpose.
Mostly Dark Shadows is silly when we're trained to expect slightly richer fun from Burton and Depp.
Fans of Depp's past collusions with Burton will find their rewards along the way. But there's a perfunctory vibe to the goings on, a weariness amid the weirdness.
Clearly, they made the movie they wanted to make. It's just not the movie this "Dark Shadows" fan hoped to see.
Dark Shadows' only meaningful relationship is between Depp and his audience. He's a persona now, no longer an actor.
How bad is "Dark Shadows"? It makes you long for a "Twilight" movie. That's bad.
Dark Shadows should have been a return-to-form for director Tim Burton, but with a bloated budget and way too much room to play, Burton delivers yet another wasted effort.
Though lacking in relevant extras, Warner's Blu-ray release of Tim Burton's latest underpraised ode to resurrection and individuality looks and sounds spectacular.
Made for an audience of no one, Dark Shadows is a mess of campy horror, "fish out of coffin" comedy, and gothic melodrama.
Not a colossal failure but an indicator that Burton and Depp could stand to step outside their collective me + you = cinematic magic mindsets.
...following Graeme-Smith's lead, Burton has made, quite possibly, the worst film of his 30-year career.
Dark Shadows is never short on stunning backdrops and impressive cinematographic techniques. It looks a treat. But with Dark Shadows, like Depp himself, you can only put so much make-up on an ageing face and sell it as fresh.
Neither Burton nor Depp could determine a unifying tone for the movie, which winds up an unsatisfying tongue-in-cheek comedy. (Blu-ray edition)
It's just sort of a star vehicle for Johnny Depp, with everyone and everything else a secondary consideration at best.
It had so much potential, but given the result, it should have stayed in the shadows.
Dark Shadows really is just a mixed bag of chuckles and drama that never really gets the balance quite right.
While "Dark Shadows" has many wonderful elements, it is set up to become a new franchise for Warner Bros, but it just doesn't quite have that eternal bite.
Captures the grand sweep and often ridiculous theatricality of both soap operas and gothic romance.
There's much more bloody potential here for dark comedy (and shaded emotions) than we're lightly spattered with . . . offers no zany flourishes, dashing touches or striking shots.
Dark Shadows makes almost no attempt to reward cinema audiences.
In yet another over-designed cinematic letdown, director Tim Burton (Alice in Wonderland; Sweeney Todd) weaves a choppy comic tale of resurrected ghouls set in the early 1970s.
Burton can still deliver a great visual hook and whimsical comedy. But he seems caught between his new laziness and his old genuine excitement about filmmaking.
Isn't sure if it is supposed to be a campy homage, a vampire black comedy, or a family friendly horror pic...doesn't come close to the duo's wondrous collaborations.
Dark Shadows gets stuck in neutral because of the uncertainty as to what kind of a film it wants to be.
Burton deploys the kind of winking, sly humor he knows his leading man can pull off.
Some scenes seem to exist in their own universe entirely, having no bearing on the rest of the plot. If this is supposed to be some sort of satirical comment on the original TV show, which was famously erratic, then it was a bad choice.
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October 16, 2010
Super Reviewer
This is Director, Tim Burton and Star, Johhny Depp`s richest and most skillful team up yet. Burton`s best film in years. A dazzling and widely hilarious Gothic comedy. Johnny Depp is a absolute riot, he gives his funniest performance since the pirates series. Depp is darkly charming, very funny and remarkable. This is
September 2, 2012Super Reviewer
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