I've always liked Tim Burton Movies, even before I knew what a director was. I loved and still love Beetlejuice, the first two Batman movies, Nightmare before Christmas, Big Fish and Sleepy Hollow. But the ones I haven't liked, I've really hated, couldn't bear to watch them again.
So when I heard about Dark Shadows I had mixed feelings. I hoped it wouldn't be the load of crap suggested by the trailer, hoped that after his last few disasters, Tim Burton might be back on form.
I was severely disappointed.
The movie was pure stupidity with a few good jokes thrown in. You couldn't sympathise with the main character because he was just a git with no redeeming qualities. He has strong family loyalty (wow how amazing ¬_¬), but that hardly makes up for how evil he is.
In fact, all the characters were awful people except the extremely bland heroine (who's barely in it anyway) and Michelle Pfeiffer (and there wasn't enough of her). It could have been so much better.
After the backstory (which almost bored me out of the cinema), the scene begins with the heroine and seems to be centered around her... but then she disappears God knows where, only appearing for a few seconds in collages and to say a sentence in scenes trying hard to be romantic but failing.
Johnny Depp has overly dramatic vampyric makeup on and weird fingers and yet, he gets away with pretending to be human. In fact it's a huge shock to everyone when they find out he's a vampire. It would have make more sense if they were more like "oh right, that explains everything." Even so, what's the obsession with over-the-top makeup (Mad Hatter, Willy Wonka) it doesn't do anything for the character, it just makes him look ridiculous.
There's barely a story to speak of, lots of loose ends that are left dangling and an ending that just wasn't good enough. The ending actually made it even worse.
I am so glad I didn't pay to see it (I have an unlimited cinema pass) . What a waste of time! I would rather have watched Avengers for a 3rd time
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