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Dark Shadows (2012)

Comedy | 113 minutes
3,06 1.409 votes

Genre: Comedy / Fantasy

Duration: 113 minuten

Country: United States / Australia

Directed by: Tim Burton

Stars: Johnny Depp, Eva Green and Michelle Pfeiffer

IMDb score: 6,2 (287.874)

Releasedate: 9 May 2012

Dark Shadows plot

"Every Family Has Its Demons"

1776. Joshua and Naomi Collins move to America with their son Barnabas (Johnny Depp) to avoid a curse. Twenty years later, Barnabas is a rich womanizer and breaks the heart of the witch Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green). She then turns him into a vampire and buries him alive. However, two centuries later, in 1972, he is freed from his grave.

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Barnabas Collins

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

Dr. Julia Hoffman

Angelique Bouchard

Roger Collins

Carolyn Stoddard

Victoria Winters / Josette DuPres

David Collins

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Roger Thornhill

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Well, what am I supposed to say about this? Vintage Burton, with a beautifully neat set design, a well wound story, a retarded amount of stars in rolls that sometimes last only one or two minutes, Johnny Depp in the usual bizarre Johnny Depp role, friendly humor that focuses on Barnabas who doesn't understand anything about modern times, various delicious ladies (how the hell couldn't Barnabas choose Eva Green?!), and of course the full romantic sounds of Danny Elfman on the tape. But whoever follows Burton has already seen all the weirdness in his earlier films and is now no longer surprised (I suppose), and what's left is a nice but not particularly compelling plot culminating in a climactic fight that in all z a spectacular FX glory lasts way too long and is completely pointless. Eva Green is great, Bonham Carter has the cutest character, and Alice Cooper's cameo on two of his 70s songs is a little party (why don't we see Carolyn's reaction to that?), but that's about it said. Great Burton-horror-camp-atmosphere-pastiche, but now I want something fresh and biting from him again.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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Extremely messy. It all looks fantastic, especially the decors in that house and the atmosphere in that fishing village is also very nice. In addition, played well in general with Green (with blond locks!) who visibly enjoys it and also a Depp who seems to like it. But there are a lot of characters in it that all fit in a bit. With that comes a very dull middle part that just drags on, without any kind of progress in the plot and we have to wait for the final. Then suddenly all those secondary characters that were almost invisible until then and you think: this film could have had so much more fun. After all, you do have the actors for it (a lot of big names too). But what's especially great about this movie is that it doesn't really have that movie magic that Burton had in, say, Edward Scissorhands. 2.5*.

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