Agree, Good but

Rating: 6/10 (25 December 2007)

I admit never seeing the play Sweeney Todd so I guess I was a bit naive going into this film; I thought the play was a comedy and so I thought the movie would be the same- murder and mayhem with humor. Sadly this isn't. Yes Johnny Depp is his usual good, somber self and Helena Bonham Carter matches him and get the few laughs there are. But the movie leaves you as cold and the many slit throat bodies that pile up and it gets very tiresome very quickly. In fact what could have been a great love story, Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney and his former wife, Anthony and Johanna is reduced to slick blood and blank stares. Tim Burton is too much in love with his one sided view of Johnny Depp. He needs to look a little deeper and he should have looked a little deeper into this story as well. Then he could have made a great movie and we could sure use one this year.