would have been a ten if it wasn't a musical

Rating: 7/10 (25 January 2008)

****possible very minor spoilers*****
i didn't walk out. i should have but i didn't. it just took too long to get going and the "pretty ladies" scene seemed to drag on forever. would have been quite suspenseful if it weren't for the singing. my girlfriend likes musicals and she loved it, i don't hate musicals, i just don't like them. i do however, really like Tim Burton movies and i just found it boring. johnny depp is great, so is helena bonham carter. really they both give great performances. sacha baron-cohen is hilarious (though at times very hard to understand). my main issue was the fact that it is a musical. an all-singing all-mincing (in every sense of the word) musical. i honestly don't get why they couldn't have made this into a regular film.
as far as it goes if i'd rented this on DVD i would have turned it off halfway through. the last half hour is decent enough but just doesn't make up for the rest of it.
lets just hope Burton doesn't let this become a habit.