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- May 11, 2012 at 4:20 pm #128262
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ParticipantIt’s reliable advice Tim Burton feels safe where he’s at in their career. Once we would have heard Two decades ago – even 10 – he was redoing Watch Dark Shadows Online Free the 1960’s soap opera about vampires, ghosts, and all sorts of things supernatural, we never could have imagined some thing sinister than Johnny Depp overacting in white makeup or Burton spitting every color within the rainbow with a macabre world. Like Poe written in Crayola, Dark Shadows takes the cheesy, chintzy nature of the series and revamps it for broad comedy. Though early entertaining through and thru, the comedy doesn’t quite work whether it is likely to, and Burton’s dreams of recreating the show for mass audiences are sadly washed away in a very river of colorful Skittle puke. Inside film, Depp’s Barnabis Collins, a wealthy playboy from the 18th century, helps make the grave error of crossing a witch, Angelique played by Eva Green. He breaks her heart by falling for an additional pair woman, and Angelique kills his beloved, turns him in a vampire, and buries him inside a tomb. Over 220 years later, Collins becomes freed, and that he finds the shipping area of Collinsport, which his family had established, isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Burton takes great care to make it obvious to you personally that Collins is really a fish beyond water. An 18th century vampire awaking into free love-era 1970’s is ripe for comedy, but the director seems only proud of showing us lava lamps and peace signs. Burton can be a director who injects a specific culture into each of his films. While Edward Scissorhands would be a suburban nightmare in the 60’s, Burton didn’t race out your Beatles’ LPs and Ed Sullivan clips. But Dark Shadows is set it a version of our world, not merely one of the own, and also the cultural references he drops in hit with a Friedberg-Seltzer thud. Okay, it isn’t really that bad, and you worry it can easily. Prat falls, obvious set-ups and deliveries, and the most awkward sex scene this side of “True Blood,” as well as a whole, helluva lot tamer, and you also realize you have to be laughing in excess of you are. No less than that’s the intent.
May 11, 2012 at 5:35 pm #134110Anonymous
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