It almost ruined the stage version for me.

Rating: 3/10 (19 April 2010)

I have been a Stephen Sondheim fan ever since I was thirteen. Sweeney Todd has one of my favorite scores and, quite frankly, some of the most incredible characters I've encountered in ages.
But Burton's version of the already twisted Sweeney Todd turns it into something more convoluted and awkward than the creepy subtlety of the original stage version.
In Burton's version, Anthony is changed from a normal boy who has good intentions into a stalker. Mrs. Lovett is changed from a plump, grandmotherly, caring woman who happens to make meat pies out of people to a madwoman who has an obsession with Mr. Todd. And Sweeney himself is transformed from a man who one could pass on the street without a second glance to a pale-faced growling man with red eyeliner and a white streak in his hair.
Not to mention that the computer-generated blood was far too much. Like I said before, subtlety and dark comedy was Sweeney's crown, but this movie has literally hacked that to pieces.