Memo to Studio Executives: Please read the scripts before giving Burton and Depp a bunch of money!

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2008)

Are we sheep? It's as if we are expected, without complaint, to love every movie Burton and Depp throw together? Burton's best work is obviously behind him...way behind him. This film was simply a disaster from top to bottom.
While the set design and costumes were fantastic, just about everything else fell flat. The songs were terrible both in writing and in performance. I often could not even understand what was being said. Johnny Depp was poorly cast as Sweeney Todd...can you say overrated. Helena Bonham Carter wasn't much better. Jamie Campbell Bower looked like a creepy pre-op transsexual.
Just fast forward to the last ten minutes where Depp, Carter and Rickman die gruesome deaths, or watch the whole thing and cut your own throat.
I bit my lip on Mars Attacks, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride, but no more. OK we get it, you were Edward Scissorhands, just make Edward Scissarhands 2.