Dark Shadows (2012)

one of my absolute favorites!

How sad is this?

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I wonder how would this movie survive without that team of actors specially "Johnny Depp" ?! This is a good fantasy movie without anything genuine, the idea of Vampire and its interaction, the witch and its classic evil character,the mysterious goal of a ghost, and a lot of unexplained events.You will enjoy that movie to an extent, you will get involved in the atmosphere of 1750 and later in the dark environment of 70's, the movie starts well and get your attention in the first half hour then you will get a feeling that another writer got involved suddenly.You will know a sufficient background about the characters, and you may think that the events will follow a specific pathway but you will get surprised a little with the turnovers.The supporting roles are quite a lot here but they didn't add much to the movie and their effect on the events is not that much because everything is about "Johnny Depp" which is not very good thing because that team of supporting actors has much talent that needed to be shown on the screen.The plot of the movie is the weakest point and you will feel a lot of stuff are not explained well, that may be annoying to you.Finally, it's an average "Johnny Depp" movie which i believe he should have his own category, it has good fantasy and weak comedy, and you may feel bored a little but try to overcome that with the music which will keep you alert.

I wanted to like this film so much but it suffers from so much clutter. The only character that gets enough screen time is Barnabus and while the story is supposed to focus on some kind of love developing between he and Victoria she gets very little developmental. Many characters are wasted - such as Roger and Dr. Hoffman - and whether intentional or not given the soap opera background the acting was far too over the top by actors that are supposed to be amazing, ie Depp and Pfeiffer. It's sad when the children are the only ones who turn out a good performance though I must say Eva Green didn't disappoint. It's just too bad that her decent performance is muddled with ridiculous attempts at being comedic such as the sex scene with Barnabus. Going along with that it seems as if Burton only made Barnabus into a killing and screwing machine (what was the purpose of the bj the doc gave him again?) whose intent to see his family thrive and his curser squirm was just an afterthought rather than a driving force. Everything in this film felt so misplaced and rushed. The comedic timing was awful. The only reason I'm not dropping a point off my rating is because the end fight was actually entertaining (though we had to suffer to get to it) and the technical aspects were decent. After having Victoria willing to kill herself for the vampire we never actually saw her fall in love with (rush, rush, rush) and then taken over by the ghost of Barnabus' old love I wanted to just drop the rating even lower for the sheer stupidity, but I'm being fair here. If only this film were more fair to its audience.

For me ,it is one of the Worst movie of Johnny Depp.I watched this movie due to Johnny Depp,but he disappointed me.Movie is boring with bad screenplay.I don't know why this movie is put in comedy genre.There is no comedy scene.Even there is not any horror content.There is no story in this movie.Acting is average.This is truly director's fault that movie is so awful and boring.He should have worked more on screenplay and characters.There is nothing in this movie that I was expecting.I give this movie 4/10.

As Hollywood movies get worse and worse, past legends lose as well their brilliance (except Spielberg). Here Tim sure doesn't reach the levels of his 80s – 90s works but it's a bit better than his more recent works… I understand that it's a TV show adaptation but the idea of medieval characters getting out of sync with our modern technological time is the idea of our french top movie comedy « Les Visiteurs » ! At least, it's funny and Deep is unusually good with his noble manners ! I really like how the mansion was crazily Gothic, the 70s fashion and songs. With this great soundtrack, it erases the total void of Danny's score (do you remember the main theme ?) "Rorsaach" and Michelle was astounding all the more it has been ages that I haven't seen her and Green (who looked like Tim's past girlfriend especially when she did the martian girl) was a thousand time more hot there than in the "Sin City" sequel ! On the contrary, Miller, Carter and above all Moretz are just insipid ! Beyond this, there is really a story problem as it keeps repeating the same idea, the same dialogs (Green wants Deep as a lover and Deep isn't agree) and the violent finale is just a very cheap way to conclude this drama !