Awful!

Rating: 3/10 (31 May 2012)

I have never seen Dark Shadows the TV show so my despising of this movie isn't bias. I came into the cinema very open minded and with Johnny Depp being an actor I quite admire I was obviously fairly excited. However already 10 minutes in to the film I was painfully bored. Throughout the film I just felt like walking out as I sat there thinking of far better things I could be doing with my time; but i did stay just to say that I had experienced all of this dreadful film. First of all, the overall acting was poor, even from Johnny Depp. The script was equally as poor and very predictable. Why this movie is labelled as a comedy I do not know! I didn't laugh once! There was no character building and the love between Barnabas and Victoria was certainly not felt by the audience. You didn't feel for any character as everything was just so dry. As for the visuals it was all so predictable and yawn.
I think the Depp and Burton partnership is extremely over rated and Johnny should consider playing parts in far better films, as he obviously has the potential. As for Tim Burton, please retire.