Johnny Depp gets to wear the white face paint .....again

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2008)

I know I am supposed to love this movie, after all its a literary masterpiece and it was Directed by Burton & its got Depp but um it was just underwhelming.
What on earth were they thinking? I am sure that as a stage play that this would be quite enjoyable but as a movie it just did not translate too well, it would have been much better if it was not a musical. The songs were at times irritating and at other times just pointless. The story could have been presented as a great black comedy, which of course is what the Sweeny Todd story is. Instead it fell short, I smiled a couple of times as the corpses slid down the chute but overall it failed to deliver any real laughs.
It seems as if this was nothing more than a vehicle for a potential award in the musical/comedy category for Depp. To be honest I am getting a bit tired of seeing Depp with the white face paint and blackened eyes, enough already its time for something different.
For my money white face paint and deadpan delivery is NOT acting.
I have no idea how this has rated so highly on IMDb, at best this is a 5-6/10