Weeney Todd-the Wimpy Barber of Fleet St.

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2007)

Awful, just plain awful. A typical Tim Burton movie with bizarrely unimaginative computer generated sets,and singing that makes "High School Musical"seem like high art. Depp comes off as a rather effeminate Sweeny and that gray streak in his hair makes him look all the worse. Bonham-Carter is wasted again in a part that she is obviously too young for. The songs are OK-they are by Sondheim right? but for some reason they seem like an afterthought. It seems Burton could not make up his mind on whether this was a musical or another one of his self-indulgent and quite tiresome journeys into cinematic "art". Also on hand is Sasha Baron Cohen playing an Italian in a Borat like style that is totally devoid of any substance. The rest of the cast consists of no-name actors. This drivel can't hold a candle to the Broadway original or the filmed Hearn-Landsbury version of the late 1980s.You've seen it all before-just rent ANY Tim Burton movie, add some songs and a wimpy Johnny Depp and viola-you got it! Avoid it like the plague!