The only reason to see Dark Shadows is to discover how dire and pointless-how flat-out dreadful-a movie can be even when it has Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Helena Bonham Carter attached to its flimsy pretext.
Dark Shadows
Every family has its demons.
2012 · 1h 53m · PG-13
Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Tim Burton
Overview
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Director and cast
- Tim Burton Director
- Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
- Eva Green as Angelique Bouchard
- Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Carolyn Stoddard
- Bella Heathcote as Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres
- Gulliver McGrath as David Collins
- Jackie Earle Haley as Willie Loomis
- Jonny Lee Miller as Roger Collins
- Ray Shirley Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
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.
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