Dark Shadows-Tim Burton's Disutility Movie

Slapstick Horror?

I think Tim Burton has come of age.

He has nothing more to show the world except dark shadows, Depp and his wife, Helena.

Will he ever get the Academy Award playing such lame ducks?

All the story-lines and plots are just mere scaffolding to hold  these elements and personalities in.

And so it was with his effortless, " Dark Shadows" where magic was to meet the silliness of the season.

Be it wizards, witches, werewolves and vampires- we have seen them all.

The light treatment did not lend any credence to the gravity of the story of  Barnabas Collins- turned vampire by a jealous witch.

Witchy wonder

While Eva Green does play to the hilt with her cheeky demeanor, Depp was just not himself-overacting like a man out of time.....

Michelle was okay but the eye candy in innocent-looking Bella Heathcote as both Jossete and Victoria was fairly tempting.

Bella - Innocent Lamb of the Movie?

Not much can be said about Helena-She is just herself playing the befuddled characters Tim assigned to her, almost in every movie from that fiendish barber who slit throats to Les Miserables!

Michelle-Still as Beguiling 

A possibly good B-grade movie if you have the time to indulge.