My favorite thing about this movie was the way the dead bodies slapped into the cement after going down Sweeney Todd's little barber chair chute. The insouciant way Todd slit the throats while singing his song was also rather delightful. I'd never seen the musical, but I imagine mostly everything that was cool about this came from that, and it was good enough here that I can't imagine they fucked up too much about the musical. Johnny Depp, of course, was enjoyable.
Someone needs to get Burton to back of the digital color manipulation though. He already's ruined a few movies with it's over/misuse, and could've done so here if the music wasn't good enough to inject life into the movie even though Burton tried to sap all the life from nearly every frame. Mrs. whoever's (HBCarter's) extended daydream with the extra-saturated color, though, was a nice touch, but it didn't need the grayed out London of the rest of the movie to make it effective. Burton decided, I guess, to make the whole thing seem as if the characters were all wearing the One Ring...
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