Dark Shadows

PG-13
Starring: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green and Alice Cooper
Running Time: 1 Hour and 53 Minutes

This is the movie that is directed by Tim Burton and pairs he and Johnny Depp together again for a Gothic reprisal of the 1960's TV Soap Opera, "Dark Shadows".
I am going to date myself by admitting that I WAS a die-hard "Dark Shadows" fan back when it aired on TV.  It has been so many years since the TV version aired that it was hard to remember the details of the earlier soap opera.
I was really excited to see the Tim Burton version and Johnny Depp was a lot of fun as the resurrected "Barnabas Collins".  Even though this is considered a horror film I found it to be more of a comedy and a fun escape movie. It follows loosely along with the original series with the Collins family re-locating to Collinsport, Maine from England with their son, Barnabas Collins.
Barnabas meets a young witch named "Angelique Bouchard",  who falls desperately in love with him and he is already in love with another young lady named "Josette DuPres". After numerous times of trying every way she can to steal his affection, including an acrobatic love-making scene. Angelique becomes extremely frustrated and casts a spell on him and turns him into a Vampire! She then locks him up in a coffin for eternity, until he is released two hundred years later when construction workers at a construction site dig up his grave! Then all pandemonium begins!
This is just a fun spin-off of the original series albeit Tim Burton/Johnny Depp style. For the real "Dark Shadows" die-hards, this is not going to be exactly as they had hoped. It is definitely a 2012 style versus the 1966 version.
Parents be advised this is PG-13 for a lot of sexuality, and some profanity. I would recommend it for the fourteen and older crowd.
I am giving "Dark Shadows" three bags of popcorn!