Barber shop singing

Rating: 8/10 (24 February 2008)

Tim Burton is the leading goth director of today and this is probably his best performance. "Sweeney Todd" is a "so so" musical, but there has probably not been such a performance on stage, like the one you see here. And definitely not that much blood.
Certainly Depp and Bonham Carter wouldn't have passed any stage auditions if they hadn't been celebrities. Nobody is a good singer but they perform their old mimic tricks, which always function in the movies. And in this kind of rather shallow musical it's enough.
The photo is rather excellent and Burton brings out the best of this material into a fairly entertaining two hours. Some time the old discussion about movie violence ought to get restarted however. Are we in the audience corrupted or perverted or what's our problem?