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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Feb 20, 2013
Pros: Johnny Depp, fun take on the old television series
Cons: Might be scary to little kids
Summary: Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) is a vampire who has been imprisoned in an iron box for 200 years (196 to be exact.) Freed by accident in 1972, Barnabas returns to his stately manor, not only to find that it has fallen into disrepair, but so has the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 12, 2013
Pros: It's good, it's funny, and it's well produced. Right up there with the Addams Family.
Cons: The original series was somber. Some plot loopholes.
Summary: Once upon a time Soap Operas ruled daytime TV in America. We, the teeming masses, the hoi polloi, the people of the land, the peasants, could watch, for hours at a stretch, the terrible angst suffered by the upper crust. Such miseries they ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 5, 2013
Pros: An interesting blend of the original concept with the macabre Burton sense of humor
Cons: Perhaps a tad darker than it needed to be, given the levity infused
Summary: Oridinarily, it perturbs me to see an update of a '60's or '70's TV show that fails to adopt the right touch of reverence to the original source material. This is just such a picture, yet homage to the original tale shows through in droves. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2012
Pros: Some amusing lines, a few plot twists.
Cons: I never came to care about the characters, thus movie became boring
Summary: Like so many kids of the time and place, I watched “Dark Shadows” religiously. When I saw the advertisements for the present movie with Johnny Depp done up to look like Barnabas Collins (the gods know there is only one Barnabas Collins, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 3, 2012
Pros: Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are at it again with Dark Shadows.
Cons: Dark Shadows (2012) lacked direction going in comedy, drama and horror directions all at once.
Summary: Together again, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Along for the ride of course is Burton's wife, Helena Bonham Carter and musician Danny Elfman. This combo has made many a quirky horror film from the excellent Edward Scissorhands, to Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 17, 2012
Pros: Visually very nice, amusing, quirky, and fun.
Cons: Can't decide if it should be serious or funny.
Summary: My sons surprised me for Mother's Day and took me to see Dark Shadows, currently playing in theaters. They knew that I had been a big fan of the TV show back in the early 1970s when I would run home from school to watch it. At that time, Dark ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 14, 2012
Pros: Depp's acting, Burton's unique sensibility
Cons: A few things feel forced; Depp's character curiously unsympathetic
Summary: It wasn't until I read talyseon's excellent review that I was even aware that this film is based upon a daytime soap opera that ran for six years in the late 1960's and early '70's. This, no doubt, is why it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 11, 2012
Pros: Johnny Depp. Entertaining movie. Good effects and sets.
Cons: Some story issues. Some characters not developed enough.
Summary: I have been wanting to see Dark Shadows since I first heard about Tim Burton and Johnny Depp starting the project. I am only going to briefly discuss the plot of the movie. There ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 11, 2012
Pros: Entertaining movie, great special effects, Green and Depp.
Cons: Humor at Collinwood? Really?
Summary: Dark Shadows (2012) Directed by Tim Burton “Love means never having to say you're sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.”—Barnabas Collins Remember Dark Shadows? I certainly ... read more
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