Yawn

Rating: 4/10 (28 December 2007)

If you've seen one Tim Burton movie, you've seen them all. The film is dark and murky, with the mandatory casting of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and a few camera tricks and odd shots thrown in to show you he's in charge.
If you've heard one song by Stephen Sondheim, you've heard them all.
Add blood and guts, and you've got a dull, slow-moving musical with muddy imagery and really bad songs.
The film is just sort of "there"; it doesn't really inspire much emotionally either way. The cast sings fairly well, despite the fact that the songs, like most of Sondheim's material, are simply terrible.
On the plus side, there are no songs in the film that are as bad as "Officer Krupke" from West Side Story, which remains the Worst Song Ever Written.
Pretty much a waste of time.