Very overrated

Rating: 4/10 (22 August 2008)

Currently the movie is rated at 7.9* on IMDb. I feel that I'm probably being far too generous giving the movie a 4* rating. One of the comments that I just read was "Despite the grim expectations from the story synopsis, the film delivers gore in a surprisingly tasteful way." What? The movie is nothing but a pointless bloodbath set to bad songs. The story isn't a comedy, but some viewers treated it as though it were. There were some tragic moments in the movie but no surprises at all. I just don't think that this type of story should be a musical. I like Johnny Depp generally, but not very much in this movie. He never seems to play any adult roles. I always thought the best movies that I had seen him in were What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Edward Scissorhands. But neither one of those roles were very adult either. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies were big successful movies, but again not for adults in my opinion. Let's face it, this is nothing but another Johnny Depp movie for all his adoring fans who think that he is a genius. Like I said, I do generally like him, but a genius he is not.