Who sir, you sir? No one in the chair, come on! Come on! Sweeney's waiting. I want you bleeders. You sir - anybody. Gentlemen don't be shy!

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2007)

Bloody EXCELLENT. Sweeney Todd is the best film Tim Burton has created since Ed Wood (also an excellent film). Everyone knows Tim Burton has great eyes for visuals. His impressive resume just proves how talent his sight is: Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factor, etc. He is without a doubt one of the best visual stylists of all time, films or no films. His style is so weird and good that he leaves his mark in every film he directed. They are dark and twisted, but very neat. They mesmerize you and they take you in different places. However, Burton has been often criticized for heavily depending on the visuals only. .Many critics doubt his ability to tell flawless story telling without the use of visuals. Whether I agree or not, it's true that sometimes he does go off and rely too heavily on visuals more than the actual story itself (ex. Big Fish).
Now, let me be the first one to say this film will change anyone's mind who less think of him as a story teller. It will blow you away. Sweeney Todd is absolutely incredible beyond my words. There is everything people could look forward to in this haunting masterpiece (for the audience of 18 years and older. I wouldn't recommend this to kids or anyone underage) Plenty of gores, thrills, music, meat-pies (yuk!), horrors, BOOBIES and for ladies, plenty of Johnny Depp. He is nothing like you've seen before. NO MORE PIRATES! He will certainly have a chance in winning an Oscar for best actor this year. He is THAT good. Everyone else in the film is sensational, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen of Borat fame.
The recent musicals like Once and Hairspray were very good, and for musical fans, fantastic. In this typical case, you do not; I repeat DO NOT have to be a musical fan to enjoy this. People in the theatre were basically laughing when Johnny started singing (sing talking like West Side Story), but you get used to it quickly. You adjust to the film.
In closing, Sweeney Todd is entertainment at best. This is a film that will be remembered years from now. I loved every minute of it.