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A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia.
The movie may substitute Grand Guignol for laughs at times, but it's spectacularly stylized -- each throat-slashing exceptional -- persuasively sung, and imaginatively adapted for the screen.
It is distinguished, hypnotic, brilliantly executed and positively electrifying.
'Sweeney Todd': Burton has deconstructed and redefined Sondheim's masterwork, creating a film that compliments its stage predecessor. 'Todd' is at once different from the play and yet not different at all. A unique achievement
This Sweeney Todd is all subtext and no substance. It starts off large and swaggering but doesn't know where to turn next: Burton seems fixated on serving up an event, to the extent that he neglects to dig into the story.
Mesmerizing and highly entertaining.
This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.
This magnificently realized musical from Stephen Sondheim contains the right blend of emotional pathos, stunning visuals and accessible songs.
It's gross but will it gross? Burton and Depp's cannibal musical is an especially acquired taste - Oliver! reimagined by Eli Roth. Brave, brutal... ballads?
Looks incredible, like a moving painting, but it's absolutely mediocre...
Sweeney Todd may just be that rare musical with broad appeal to audiences who might normally say they don't care for the genre.
Elevates a rollicking gorefest into a dark work of art
This is a remarkable piece of work for people who like their genres all mashed together in a meat grinder.
Sweeney Todd is a throat-slasher of a motion picture. It creates a new genre -- the slasher musical. Adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim, it's the tuneful tale of cutthroat's revenge.
Filming a major Broadway musical has always been trouble for moviemakers; none of them seem to work.
An already impressive DVD release gets even better--the definitive release of Tim Burton's best movie since Ed Wood.
As unsettling as it is riveting. Even Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered.
[Burton's] vision of a dark and smoggy nineteenth century London, with muted colors, is perfect for the music and the story.
Depp's staggering performance perfectly merges the story's humour, horror and romance into a serious punch to the gut.
One of the best movies of his career.
Burton was born to film this strange and spooky chamber piece.
The film suffers from a relentless emphasis on bland, thoroughly forgettable musical numbers whose sameness inevitably lends the proceedings a distinctly oppressive quality.
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