Mismatched Direction/Scripting/Vision

Rating: 3/10 (21 May 2012)

IMO, this was not a good vehicle for Burton. I have to believe if Johnny Depp is a DS fan, he knows this did not hit the mark.
Burton (nor Grahame-Smith and August) did not seem to understand Dark Shadows or the characters and, the result was confused, disjointed, and overall quite disappointing.
Burton seems to have envisioned Barnabas as a 'sexier' Beetlejuice with fangs and treated the storyline, such as it was, as an inconvenient necessity. Not even Shakespeare could deliver a good script working with that.
I think Robert Zemeckis (Death Becomes Her) or even Barry Sonnenfeld (Adams Family) or Brad Silberling (Casper) could have done much better. Fortunately, we spent the next few days absorbed in an original DS marathon to clear our minds of the unpleasant experience.