Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) by Shanta B — 24 Oct 2012

Burton is the ideal director to tackle this particular musical, since he's a master at theatrically dark and moody sets. He doesn't disappoint, perfectly bringing Sondheim's bleak London -- "a great black pit" inhabited by the "vermin of the world" -- to the screen.

Depp and Bonham Carter are excellent performers who obviously work seamlessly with Burton (one is his acting muse, and the other is the mother of his children). But trained singing voices aren't part of their skill set.

Depp's is passable -- actually, better than expected -- but Bonham Carter's upper range is awful.