What better way to spend my spare money than enjoying a Tim Burton film? I know there's none, because I ultimately love me some Burton films ('Edward Scissorhands' and 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' are personal favorites, thank you very much). Contradictory, in the latter feat, 'Dark Shadows' personally occurred to me as a disappoint. Burton tries to relentlessly shadow the flawed soap opera-turned-blockbuster with the adorably energetic Depp who fangs his magic which glorifies this flick greatly. Tim Burton is the non-commercial version of Steven Spielberg. He is all-kooky and all-spooky, but even in such tonality, you'd still find heart underneath.
It is startling though, that 'Dark Shadows' is so imaginative it leaves behind its characters. At any way you look at it however, it is absolute to be superior than the depressing 'Alice in Wonderland'.
From the filthy town of Liverpool of year 1700, wherein poverty is as might destined to lurk around the outskirts. Transferring to another setting, the Collins family eagerly established a fishing business. Of all the servants I could have spurned, I got the witch. Barnabas Collins once said in a voice-over. Turns out, Collins' servant is a scorned lover to Barnabas (Johnny Depp), Angelique (Eva Green). And the worse catch is, she turned out to be a witch, the one you hear in the myths-witch. Fiendishly, she curses the Collins' which leaves Barnabas grieving for his parents eventual death.
Also cursed to be eventually lovesick after his girlfriend is compelled to jump off a cliff, Barnabas is turned into a vampire, so the suffering will remain forever. In 1970, after being locked in a coffin tangled with some silver chains, Barnabas return to their home and established town, Collinsport. There he meets his extended family to whom he insist his help to earn back their town. Things became chaotic with the reappearance of the once fiendish and is prepped to be likewise again, witch-bitch, Angelique.
Tim Burton is concluded as the best option there is to do a vampire movie and Depp is fit for the front row lime light. Johnny Depp is at least not a let down, bringing justice, once more to an iconic character. He almost did all the work (with a collective charity from his co-stars: Chloe Moretz, 'Let Me In'; Michelle Pfieffer and Jackie Earle Hailey) with fire-cracking comedic timing and downright contagious charm. Burton, however, seemed to have an overload of imaginative idea bulbs flickering in every space over his head that he actually made this movie such a confusion.
Furnished to an unknown outcome, a parody(?), a creeper (?) or just a Tarsem Singh extended project(?), even up to now I haven't figured it out. In the middle of the movie, the once epic-scale war between the witchcraft-knowledged bitch and our flawed vampiric hero became a battle of the entrepreneurs which ultimately cheapened things.
With exemplar cast and people, it is surprising that even though 'Shadows' was in its peak of its entertainment, really the execution of the film still struggles, and ultimately reflects.
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