Thatmoviecritic's review of Dark Shadows

Rating: 5/10 (25 October 2012)

Today I'm not going to say what I normally do, describe the story. So I'm getting right into it.
Dark Shadows is a mediocre film. It's not good, but not bad. The things it achieves in it's cinematography and music selection, though the acting is good but cliché and doesn't bring the sense of fear and dis functionalism that was in the television series.
The film has no fear or dis functionalism at all. However Johnny Depp starts out well but then goes back to his everyday film antics, with the weird looks, the annoying accent that sounds as if he has something in his throat. Johnny Depp in this film as the title, I think, was a bad mistake. You cannot take him seriously in this film as the vampire.
In a film about a dysfunctional family, it feels quite dull, boring and well... weird.
I think the director Tim Burton and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith tried to go for the spooky, atmospheric type of film. It didn't quite work. It's more like one of those over the top comedies that aren't funny. The thing about this film that I thought was a really bad mistake, the makers tried to hard on the film. A quick start, a weird non understandable ending, and a mediocre film.
Needless to say, I did enjoy the film, and I really tried to like it. But it's hard to say it's good. It's just another cliché mediocre recreation of an amazing television series/book/movie. The closest to this, I would think, would be Little Fockers, except that was worse.
I'm sorry but I'm giving this 2 and a half golden movie reels out of 5