The new disappointment by Burton.

Rating: 6/10 (20 July 2012)

When I heard that Tim Burton had met again with Johnny Depp to create the film Dark Shadows I could not help thinking that I would give them my confidence to that couple for one last time since in their latest films together (Alice in wonderland, Swenney Todd, Charlie and the chocolate factory) they have not done more than leave us dissatisfied.
When the film begins, it seems that Burton has created a story of love and terror that seems to be real promising. The film begins when by a series of situations of jealousy and impossible loves the witch Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green) curse Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) in order to turn him into a vampire and locks him in a coffin where he is forced to spend a long time locked. All goes well until the vampire Barnabas Collins is released from the coffin and appears in a total different world to where he lived and must adapt to the new customs from the 70s and also has to fight to rescue from the misery the family business while living with all members who now inhabit what was once his home, like Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), who enters as an important figure in the development of the plot, with a good performance by Carter, but Burton could have done a better job developing this character by the fact that sometimes appears like a less important character. One problem with the film is that the way in which Burton reveals the development of the movie, becomes really boring, full of clichés and old and predictable jokes, that let the spectator notes that a story of vampires trying to do a combination with terror, comedy and drama is something that in the Burton's universe is not very profitable.
Depp presents a performance where is notable that the exaggeration of mimicry and the peculiar form of walking are the characteristic features in every single one of his latest movies and he creates a character of Barnabas Collins that is not credible. Not everything in this movie is below expected, the role of Michelle Pfeiffer as the Collins house matriarch, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, is so good that is only surpassed by the performance of Eva Green as the antagonist of the story that is the best thing of the movie, Eva Green creates a fantastic Villain that has a bizarre way to show her love, full of sensuality, malice and hate to every person who stands in their way. One more time, in a film that is predictable, and there is a lack of intriguing moments. Where the best thing is the fabulous performance by Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer. Burton leaves us waiting to much of this film.