# Dark Shadows Review

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- Published: 2012-05-15T11:54:51-04:00
- Author: EAN

Director, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are at it again with another whimsical movie
that is
 all over the place. I have to say I had no expectations for this film but
the bizarre and different that is to be expected. “Dark Shadows” was a soap opera
in the 1960′s that could easily be deemed a TV classic that much of the new generation
knows nothing about. Johnny Depp was obsessed with the show as a child and now we
fast forward into the 21st century and in “Dark Shadows” the movie, Johnny Depp 
takes on the character of Barnabas Collins. The acting was amazing in the movie 
but the story line was sub par. We learn the history of the Collins family and how
the manor was raised above the Collinsport town in Maine. Barnabas falls in love
with Angelic Josette (Bella Heathcote) and despises and rejects the love of Angelique(
Eva Green). Angelique is a wicked witch on a mission to get Barnabas and she chases
off his love Angelic. Well actually she sends her to her death off a cliff. I was
shocked at this part of the movie. Barnabas is cursed, wrapped in chains and cast
into a coffin. After 190 years he is unburied and finds himself not in the present
but in the 1970′s and meeting his family as the times have changed. Ironically enough
he is the vampire from the 1700′s that finds himself out of place in the 197o’s.

He returns to find his manor in despair and the family is broke. Elizabeth Collins(
Michelle
 Pfeiffer), is in charge of the family’s fading fortunes; her teenage daughter,
Carolyn (Chloe Grace Moretz); Elizabeth’s brother, Roger (Jonny Lee Miller); Rogers
son, David (Gully McGrath), and a psychiatrist named Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham
Carter)that lives in the manner as well. This family is dysfunctional in every way
and when they eat their meals together its a depressing mesh of time wasted. This
is where the movie breaks off and the plot is lost. There is a lot of satire and
sarcasm that is funny but detached from the main story line and the purpose of the
characters role in the movie. Angelique’s company is bankrupting the Collins family
on purpose of course and she still is relentless in her quest to get Barnabas to
want her. A new romantic rivalry is born for Barnabas now and Angelic is caught 
in the same drama she encountered in the 1700′s. That’s life sometimes, a horrible
circle of the same things happening over and over again no matter what century you
find yourself in. If you are looking for the odd and funny and can relate to the
1970′s theme then you will dig it. I’m an 80′s baby and some of the references did
not translate well. This is Johnny Depp and Director, Tim Burton’s eighth major 
motion film together. “Dark Shadows” is a Warner Bros film and directed by Tim Burton,
rated PG-13.