Others say...

"No fun at all"
I thought that this was just about the most repulsive movie I've ever seen - and not just because it was a musical! The blood and guts were a bit much, and all of the throat slitting and waterfalls of blood was putridly excessive, not to mention the awful, soulless "songs" that they sang! I thought it would be good fun watching Sacha Baron Cohen in a movie where he wasn't Borat or Ali G, but the "duel" that he "fought" with Sweeney Todd just didn't make any sense. Helena Bonham Carter, who is very attractive, is difficult to look at when she's made up in Marilyn Manson corpse make-up. I thought that Tim Burton would try to infuse at least some sort of dark humour into this story of a sort-of-sympathetic serial killer, but I'm not sure he even tried this time around since the film is really as gothic as it wants to be. Not recommended.

"Much too bloody. Depp perfectly cast."
Johnny Depp was perfect to play the part of Sweeney Todd, and Timothy Spall, who played the part of Beadle, was also perfect for his part in this very different type of musical. There was way too much spurting blood, which was not very realistic, and in my opinion, took away much enjoyment of the movie. The actors actually sang instead of lipsinking, which was a nice touch. Depp's voice surprisingly was quite good. The dynamic sound of the organ during the beginning titles and introduction was chilling.

The Blu-Ray transfer was very clear and detailed,and since the movie was purposely dark, the bits of color throughout stood out vividly. The audio was also good from the front and center channels, but was lacking a bit from the rear. There are a lot of good special features, but be warned, there is a lot of blood,so it's not for everyone.

"Righting wrongs"
I have never been so scared in my life - there are just too many people
out there who cannot overcome their desires to seek revenge. This revenge
is usually predigated upon an imagined or a real wrong for which the term
'forgiveness' does not even enter into the equation.

"Disgrace"
I don't even know where to begin when it comes to this film. This is probably one of the worst cast's I have ever seen for this show. Most of the people cast in this movie couldn't even hold a note and did not portray the character's well at all.

A huge disappointment. I've seen the show on Broadway and at many regional theatre's and this is the worst production I've ever seen of the show.

"MUSIC TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY "
The problem with the original stage version of this Sondheim musical was apparent at the time: it's a shallow story. Dressed up as it was in Brechtian stage business, adorned with two brilliant performances (Angela Lansbury and eventually George Hearn) and with the fine staging by Harold Prince, it at least seemed to be about something, even if later you realized it wasn't. It's a penny dreadful with aspirations to high art, but it's still a penny dreadful. Tragedy? Sorry. The central character doesn't have the stature for that: he's just a vengeful zero, and Mrs. Lovett a very bad cook.

The film jettisons everything that made the stage version so entertaining, starting with the humor. Please don't tell me it's dark and subtle -- it's gone. And without the high-octane vocal performances of Lansbury and Hearn (or any of their stage successors) the songs don't land right -- they're enervated. Only Ed Sanders as the boy Toby and to a lesser extent Jamie Campbell Bower seem capable to getting their numbers across, and in the case of Sanders doing so superbly. The character of Mrs. Lovett in particular is all wrong: Carter plays her as too smart, and the manic music hall energy that Lansbury brought to the role, and that the film needs so desperately, is lost. Irony? Look elsewhere. Tim Burton doesn't do irony.

What did Burton want the audience to take away from this picture? His grasp of human nature remains stubbornly infantile, and the film devolves into a nihilistic bloodbath. Poor guy, he can't get over the fact that bad things happen.