Where reviews are concerned, the factor to be aware of is that there are people in "the Industry," including a number of professional critics, who are gunning for Tim Burton and who have probably been sharpening their hatchets for weeks now in preparation for the movie's opening.
That's certainly something else to keep in mind - with Burton as well as Depp. I mean, just look at some of the
Alice in Wonderland reviews. Scathing would be putting it mildly.
There are many cases of movies tanking with the critics and cleaning up at the box office. Just think of the Adam Sandler films (I think these were mentioned previously), the hot tub time machine films, the hangover films, etc.
There are really too many to list, which is one of the reasons I mused the other day if reviews serve any purpose other than for the critics to see their own opinions in print. Good reviews can help smaller films. But bad reviews hardly ever seem to hurt as much as the critics would like them to...
Though if written well, really bad reviews can often be hysterical to read - even when they're skewering a film you might have liked. Some of the
Twilight Saga reviews are priceless - yet terrible reviews haven't hurt one of those films at the box office...
2 days 7 hours 29 minutes 34 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!