Don't see this film, please don't listen to the Depp/Burton fanboy/girl reviewers.

Rating: 1/10 (7 February 2008)

Simply put, in 4 words : Don't watch this movie.
I can see why all the 12 year old girls are raving about this. They always want what they can't have, which was a clever trick on the producer's part, I'll give them that. Making the film an 18 really did boost sales. If it wasn't for Johnny Depp's appearance in this film, I may have been inclined to give it another star. If you ask me, Tim Burton is far too over-rated. I feel that I should tell all potential watchers not to waste their money, and go see a better film out in the cinemas right now, such as Cloverfield or In The Valley of Elah, the one thing that makes modern cinema worth being given the title "modern cinema" is innovation, and/or allowing the audience to reminisce, and this was a terrible mix of the two. The use of the star system to market this movie, Burton's "If I build it, they will come" approach appalls me, the fact that people will pay just as much to see a sold-out Johnny Depp as they would to buy a DVD from a bargain bin is beyond me. I'd much rather watch a $5 copy of an old early classic, than waste the same amount of my lifetime on this pile of nothing. I would call it something more obscene, but that would imply it meant something to me, which it did not. If you're looking for a good adaptation of Sweeney Todd, try the 2007 version which was a straight to DVD feature made almost completely independently. Or just see the play. This movie makes a mockery of the original writer, and if I were Thomas Peckett Prest, I would be spinning in my grave.