What a waste of my time!!!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Goddammit Tim, must you ruin *everything* that's good? The original Broadway production and score of Sweeney Todd are brilliant and nuanced, balancing subtle notes of humor and horror, tenderness and savagery, lightness and dark, often within singular characters. Burton just suffocates it all in black tar and stage blood with all the sophistication and discernment of a 13-year-old suburbanite giggling at slasher comics in his basement.It is clear that Burton didn't really want to make a musical in the first place and thus all the numbers come off as reluctant obligations rather than the vital organs of the film. Additionally, if you are going to make a musical, it is important that your actors can actually bloody SING! Depp employs a bad alt-rock whine while Helena Bonham Carter deadpans/talks her way through what are supposed to be giddy, effervescent, and funny songs with the bored resignation of a corpse bride waiting for her paycheck. Considering the heartbreaking beauty, dynamism, and texture of the original score, this rendering comes across as merely a self-serving insult to its source.It is thus difficult to call Burton's Sweeney an "interpretation" when it is such a tone-deaf butchering on so many levels. As suggested earlier, Mrs. Lovett was originally written as a goofy, overeager, dim-witted bubble of a woman who counterbalances Sweeney's brooding menace. Here, Carter squelches her into the iron bodice of her austere ennui and creates just an equally brooding bedhead who glibly tosses Mrs. Lovett's $100 lines into the toilet as though the whole point of her character and the script were boring her to death. Depp's performance seriously lacks depth as well, coming across as Mr. Mean Looney-Pants the entire time rather than a suffering man with a deadly secret who has any real vengeance to seek. The sailor, who is supposed to be an embodiment of virile safety and valor, was for some unidentifiable reason cast as a twelve year old-looking boy rather than a capable man who could actually "steal" Johanna away. Plus, his and Johanna's songs together were cut, neutering their relationship and the urgency of their union. Johanna sits and sings her liberation-desire song while sewing and looking bored. The judge is rendered Mr. EvilEVilEVIL rather than the cluelessly gross man who actually thinks his adopted daughter would willfully marry him. Nearly every decision made, casting and otherwise, was amateurishly wrong and undermined the integrity and effectiveness of the story.If you want REAL Sweeney Todd, see the Angela Lansbury production on DVD and listen to the original cast recording (or find a capable live production, such as the excellent one currently at Barrow Street Theater in New York) and let this dumb, ham-fisted, kiddie-goth misfire rot in the dollar bin where it belongs.

Sweeney Todd may seem dull or depressing to begin with, but after the protagonist hatches his revenge plot, partnering with a bar maid in order to become a pair of cannibalistic, unflinching murderers; it's far easier to remain interested. The murders are surprisingly casual, and even comedic at times. It is an intensely dark film in both setting and subject, but it has contrasting fanciful, happy themes; mostly regarding family values, and brilliantly and hilariously upbeat musical numbers.However, all of the characters are quite shallow, in that each of them has a single focus within their life, which the film follows as they progressively become more willing to do anything to achieve it. Not much about the film is realistic, but it's entertaining in its extremity, and contrast with rare moments of light-heartedness.Sweeney Todd may have one of the least happy endings there ever was in a film, and there is very little closure even when Todd's revenge is exacted. But despite its flaws, Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham-Carter as an acting duo directed by Tim Burton, could never be a regrettable watch; especially when the product is a musical about a murder spree.(1.14.36, Sweeney slits throat of second victim during song) That actually took me by surprise, lol.(1.42.45 Sweeney kills old witch) Soo, is that his wife, or? (1.47.28) I knew it, lol.(1.51.52, Credits) Okay so what happens to the daughter? 0 closure, lol.

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. Sweeney Todd is one of my favorite films of Tim Burton after his Batman Movies of course it has it's own creepy vibe and style but the songs and acting by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman is just extraordinary unfortunately the only bad thing about the whole film is the ending i didn't liked it because i thought that Todd would have found some happiness in his life and his redemption unfortunately that never happens but this is a very great film with very well shots and direction but also a very good talented cast.

Such excellent players like Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are ill-spent in this not better than fair movie. The best of it is the Victorian London atmosphere in interiors, exteriors and clothes, aristocratic and popular. The story in itself is somewhat abstruse. A corrupt judge is aroused by the beautiful wife of a barber and to be able to take hold of her has her husband imprisoned on a false accusation and sent to deportation. He comes back fifteen years later with a false identity and wants to take his revenge on the judge. The next episodes are grandguignolesque and somewhat incomprehensible filled with several murders of the barber's clients in the barber's shop he had installed in the first floor of a confectionery owned by a woman with whom he starts a love relationship. He cuts their throats while pretending to shave them. The victims' bodies are used by that woman to bake meat pies. Among other things, what is strange is that no friends or relatives ever turned up to query about those disappearances. The barber ends up by getting hold of the judge after attracting him to the barber shop on a false promise and he cuts his throat there. And from horrifying scene to horrifying scene everything turns out badly to the barber, his companion and even his wife that appears in the end and who he thought was dead a long time ago. He cuts her throat too since he didn't recognize her and thought she was the beggar in whom she had changed herself. Awful indeed.