Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows

1. What's the story?

In the 18th century, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is a wealthy and powerful gentleman who attracts the romantic attentions of a servant girl (Eva Green) and breaks her heart. She turns out to be a witch who vengefully turns Barnabas into a vampire and buries him for 200 years. He wakes in the year 1972 and returns to his family home. Slightly befuddled by this strange new world, he moves in with the new generation of Collinses and tries to return the family to its former glory. And it turns out the family's new governess is the (possible) reincarnation of his lost love, Josette (Bella Heathcote). But the witch, now called "Angie," is still around and still looking to possess Barnabas for herself

• Is it any good?

Celebrated director Tim Burton brings many of his unique touches to DARK SHADOWS, including a dazzling, intricate, gothic design; heavy, crazy makeup (and blonde wigs) for his characters; and a penchant for high operatic style. In certain ways, it comes closest to his best and most personal work.

But while Burton should have been comfortable with the story's large-scale passions and soap opera emotions -- as evidenced by movies like Edward Scissorhands -- he seems unwilling to take the risk. Instead, he retreats to silly, fish-out-of-water comedy, as written by Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), that's filled with jokes about and references to the 1970s. With stronger material, Burton's films are capable of great verbal wit (Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood), but Dark Shadows was more suited to a purely visual 

my own opinion :  i think it a good movie funny and a lot of drama its nice to watch