Not funny at all

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2014)

Billed as a comedy it doesn't even come close to being funny in my opinion. I watched it, hoping it would actually make me laugh. Wrong answer!!! I mean Johnny Depp does his usually nice job as Barnabas but he just doesn't play the role in a funny manner. Michelle Pfeiffer plays the later day matriarch of the Collins clan but she excepts Barnabas's rebirth(?) a little too readily even with the reported family history. I just did not find it humorous at all. Things do pick up when Angelique shows up. She is the witch that originally cursed Barnabas as a vampire. She is still alive after close to 200 years and recognizes Barnabas when he is resurrected when his coffin is found by an excavating team and they open it. All eleven workers are killed to feed the thirst. Depp uses his vampire powers to bring the Collins clan back to prominence. Helen Bonham Carter is a live in shrink at the Collins mansion and discovers the secret when she hypnotizes Barnabas and he spills all. Trying to win the reborn Victoria he looks for new ways to be interesting. I don't know I just stopped after a little over an hour of watching this not funny move. It wasn't even campy.