Sweeney Todd (2007)

Probably the most embarrassing thing, I've ever seen. There were no similarities to the "real" story of Sweeney Todd whatsoever other than the names and locations. This is the crappy Stephen Sondheim reworking of the urban legend with love stories and a revenge motif mixed in.

It had awful singing, terrible "music", very poor acting (when there was any acting), and it all looked horrible.

I hate musicals anyway but this had the kind of music that wouldn't be out of place in the improv singing section of "Whose Line is it Anyway?". It was that bad. It was extremely amateur and seemed like it was knocked together in about 30 seconds. There were no memorable songs and the lines might as well have been spoken.

The dodgy "cockney" accents made a lot of the words of the songs unintelligible especially when the notes were drawn out. It's a film that definitely needs subtitles.

As for the gore that some people rave about, well I've seen better in a low budget independent horror film than in this fiasco. It's not quite as cartoonish as "Kill Bill" but it is still completely unrealistic. I wish that I could give this an even lower mark than I have (...er, yeah... nothing!). It sucked! Tim Burton should be ashamed of himself.