Dark Shadows

Tim Burton, along with his usual cast and crew, has made a brand out of taking quirky characters and seeing them through an idiosyncratic world. What was once borne out of respect for human emotions and an attempt to bring a certain gothic sensibility to cinema, is now a full-on machine doing twee stuff on screen in a crass attempt to make us mistake odd-ball people making bland jokes with wit and charm.

Based on a really old but long-running soap opera, Dark Shadows is a story of someone out of time, and a love triangle that may have been interesting if not for one angle of it bein....