Dark Shadows

Released: 2012
Comedy, fantasy
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter
Running Time: 113 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown: This is a spin on the classic old television show of the same name.

So I've never really like Tim Burton, so, in the end, I'm not surprised I didn't like this movie.

Depp plays Barnabas Collins who was cursed back in the late 1700's and became a vampire.  His scorned love interest, who's a powerful witch, created a trap for him in which he got buried (alive kinda) for 200 years.  Meanwhile, she took over the town that he lived in and was fine until Depp got released from his trap by accident.
He goes back to his home where he finds new relatives of his living there and they work together to try and get his town back from the witch.
Now the first half of the film was doing good, but the last half ruined everything that started off right.  The ending was really silly and a bit of a rip off of another movie, which, I can't name or else you'll know how this movie ends.
Anyway, it ended up being just a little below average from me, even though I chuckled a couple times.

2 out of 5 for some laughs.