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Rating: 3/10 (18 May 2012)

Just a simple to the point review. I was never a fan of Dark Shadows so perhaps if you were.. you should take this with a grain of salt.
This movie looks like a dark comedy. It sometimes tries to be. Other times it tries to be a bit of a suspense horror movie. It never really works.
The actors weren't bad. Johnny Depp was Johnny Depp... brilliant as usual. I thought i would dislike some of the rest of the cast as they seemed to be set up to play stereotypes.. none of them did and the entire cast was Excellent. The scenery was great and somehow they managed so make a dark foreboding mansion set in a bright sunny town... totally believable. In fact everything about the movie was believable.. and there are some pretty insane things in this movie.
But it just didn't click. Probably the script. Maybe the directing. Maybe the movie just couldn't decide what it wanted to be.. horror, comedy, romance, tragedy... Its like they were trying to make a superepic but just didn't have what it took. The movie just doesn't work. It wont bore you to tears. You'll get a few chuckles and have a few very mild emotions. But you wont remember the movie a month from now.