Dark Shadows Reviews
ScreenRant
Not a colossal failure but an indicator that Burton and Depp could stand to step outside their collective me + you = cinematic magic mindsets.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Aristocrat
...following Graeme-Smith's lead, Burton has made, quite possibly, the worst film of his 30-year career.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Examiner.com
It had so much potential, but given the result, it should have stayed in the shadows.
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| Original Score: 2/4
FoxNews.com
While "Dark Shadows" has many wonderful elements, it is set up to become a new franchise for Warner Bros, but it just doesn't quite have that eternal bite.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Schmoes Know
There's some laughs in this movie, there's some action, but halfway through this movie it just takes this weird turn, and you're like 'what happened to all the fun that I was having in this theater?'
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| Original Score: 4/10
2UE That Movie Show
Dark Shadows has some sporadic moments of fun but on the whole it's an inferior recycled mash-up of Burton's style and Depp's quirky characters from their eight collaborations.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Irish Times
"Dark Shadows has to be the most perfunctory, most self- parodic entry to the [Burton] canon thus far."
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| Original Score: 2/5
Eight movies together later and that razor sharp Depp / Burton relationship now feels less like scissorhands and more like spoonfingers.
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| Original Score: 2/10
The Popcorn Junkie
It's a million dollar soap opera and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the turd, and Tim Burton rolled it in glitter.
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| Original Score: 1/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
Dark Shadows really is just a mixed bag of chuckles and drama that never really gets the balance quite right.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Kansas City Star
A movie that heads in so many directions it's a wonder Depp didn't get whiplash.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The Ooh Tray
A mirthless monster mash that just manages to remember what it's about, a minute before the end - all concerned praying it's not too late. It is.
Movies.com
Sigh, and I had such high hopes.
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| Original Score: 2/5
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The film is lifeless, which would be a funny thing to say about a vampire movie if it weren't so true.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ABC Radio (Australia)
The longer the movie plays, the more disjointed, episodic, and incoherent it becomes. It has no idea what it is.
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| Original Score: 2/5
What Culture
A half-baked auto-update of the classic series, and a suggestion that Burton's persistent style has finally worn thin.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
There were only a handful of genuine laughs... and that puts it on a par with Scary Movie 3.
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| Original Score: C+
The Washingtonian
Unfortunately, Burton abandons a promisingly quirky first half approach & undermines a hugely enjoyable Depp performance with an effects-heavy, action-packed second half that's neither funny nor thrilling, and mostly just boring.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Las Vegas Weekly
Impressive costumes and sets indicate Burton's consistent eye for detail, but as in many of his recent efforts, he's applied his considerable style to very little substance.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Daily Film Fix
SHADOWS has plenty of Depp's weird allure and, yet, seems to be missing absolutely everything else.
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| Original Score: 4/10
