The Tunes Don't Ring

Rating: 6/10 (1 August 2019)

The story is fantastic and morbid/grotesque, the settings and production is well done, the cast plays well, and obviously Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and the others had their fun making this one, but still just a rate of 6!?
My trouble is the music and as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical this falls heavy into account. I even won't say that the voices are bad but still the songs and tunes don't ring to me like e.g. the songs in Moulin Rouge.
Without the music and just as a regular fantasy/horror movie Sweeney Todd would get a rate of 8 from me, but as a musical the rate must be lower, so 6 it is. Yes, still a good watch, but either Sweeney Todd needs better tunes or it needs a transformation into a "regular" movie to be a really good one.