Beware This Tale of Sweeney Todd

Rating: 1/10 (31 December 2007)

If you're tone deaf and illiterate, this is the adaptation for you.
If you're the least bit curious about the original, rent the DVD of George Hearn and Angela Lansbury performing on stage.
Sorry, but Johnny and Helena don't have the musical chops to carry it off.
Tim Burton should have gone back to Christopher Bond's play and left the music out. Then we'd have a campy Hammer Studio horror tribute, the same kind of ironic send-up offered by MARS ATTACKS! This version of SWEENEY will only disappoint its divided audience: those who want a credible musical of a Broadway masterpiece, and those who want a pure Burton horror flick. Doomed to fail at the box office.
Shame on all of you involved. I want my money back.