LOVED IT!!! Macabre... Witty... Creative... Visual... FUN.

alimo, Stoke,

I did enjoy this film, but it is not the 'masterpiece' that others are lauding it to be.
Visually this film is rich in character typical of tim burton films, the casting was nearly perfect & the fresh corpses descending & collapsing onto the stone cellar floor is uncompromisingly brutal & engrained in my mind.
The faults come in the editing of Sondheim's score & the story-telling of the director. Early scene's introducing characters were almost entirely musical & disaffecting in their romance, clashing with the gloomy visuals. Dialogue dominated mid-way into the film, almost as a relief, & held much more gravitas in the story. Depp was too dominant throughout, undermining the sinicism of other characters, while events at the end transpired so quickly you lost any emotive connection.

Transferring stage musicals into respectable films I've always seen as incredibly difficult & will always split the opinions of the general cinema-going public. Only see if a Burton or musical fan.

michael, glasgow, scotland

I would really like to say I enjoyed it...but I can't! The sets were great, it had the mood and feel of old London and a great cast but why, oh why all that bloody singing??? I realise it was a musical but I can only think of about 2 or 3 minutes of actual unsung dialogue; art house meets crack house methinks! Shame really, I was looking forward to it. C'est la vie!

Alan Rossati, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

i was extremely disappointed!!!!
there was way too much singing, more than the classical musicals and the actors voices were mismatched to say the least. i came so close to walking out after hearing joannas name in a song for about the 50th time. i think the film would have been better with less song and more acting as it had evrything to do this. definately over rated

london west 12, london,

Went to see the preview of this film and I can honestly say I feel robbed! This is the worst film I have ever seen. There was too much "singing", the story was real slow at building up, the blood looked like Dulux Red Stallion Emulsion. I have never seen so many people walk out of a film. This film is very overrated!

Sarah Fletcher, Doncaster, UK

A veiw from the uneducated possibly, but !
Absolute trash ! i need someone to explain what was entertaining about poor lyrics poor voices characters that we all know but were hardly captivating.
Only watched it because "I am Legend ", was fully booked.
A callout would have been more satisfying & i dont get paid for them.

Pirreli Dipstick, Darlington, England

It reminded me of the macabre pleasure I had at the Edinburgh Toy Museum watching a mechanical marionette version of Sweeney Todd dispatching a puppet victim and the body falling through the trap door ( 30 odd years ago ).
However, in my humble opinion this film is not without flaws.
The plot isn't perfect and leaves little time for most of the characters to develop since Depp occupies centre stage too often and seems to be carrying the film.

Musically the film is a big let down. Whilst the leads have decent voices, they lack the power to bring the songs to life. Each becomes one unmemorable dirge blurring into the next.
I think Burton obviously had a dilemma; either choose immensely talented actors or great singers who would not command the screen. In the past this would have been solved by dubbing the actors voices with trained singers and perhaps this should have been the way to do it.
Great fun - but like Mrs Lovetts pies, a bit half baked in places.

Garry, York, UK

I could go on for hours but I won't. I will make this very simple. This is a "masterpiece". No other word for it, loved it from start to finish. Truly stunning!

Graham Richardson, Birmingham,

Hang on a minute, Dan in Chicago paid $9.50? We're getting seriously ripped off here in the UK. I paid £7.40 plus £0.65 booking fee - and that was in deepest Berkshire never mind London!

Amber, Berkshire,

Wonderful. The chemistry between Depp and Bonham Carter is marvellous. And so much (intentionally) OTT acting from the support characters. Almost lost for words when I left the cinema.

Bob, Welliington, Somerset

Please don't waste your money on this excuse for entertainment. Johnny Depp reprises his role as Captain Jack Sparrow but without any of the character and without having improved his mockney accent. Helena Bonham Carter is more interesting to watch but with a less convincing accent than Johnny Depp's. Sweeney Todd's daughter is not convincing or a joy to look at or to listen to, and neither is her wooer who sounds and looks like a "castrati". The songs are far too long, dry and emotionless and the diction is so bad that you miss out on a lot of the points they are presumably trying to get across. Some parts of the cinematography that have been ripped straight out of Moulin Rouge, and other visual elements straight out of Tim Burton's own infinitely superior Corpse Bride. I am a huge fan of Tim Burton, Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp but this was a huge disappointment. Timothy Spall however shined and appeared to be in his element.

Amber, Berkshire,

This is the darkest, most distrurbing vision of Sondheim's masterwork that I have ever seen and it's grand guignol violence is certainly not for the faint-hearted. Depp inherits
Todd's obsessions as though they were his own personal demons. Bonham Carter superbly plays (and sings) the husk of a down-trodden woman with a mind of her own (and her own unrequited obsession with Todd).
The switch between the 'real' CGI world and the monochrome of the characters' everyday lives is unusually effective and creates a frighteningly appropriate world of its own.
I am even more in admiration of Sondheim after seeing this film and Buron has directed a film that is a work of great art. The sound of crunching, shattered corpses onto the cobble stones beneath Todd's shop will, like Sondheim's melodies, haunt me forever. An unforgettable, if unsettling, experience.

clive burton, London,

I hope this film comes to my Town in France, version orginale, because I think Johnny Depp is one of the finest American actors and would see any film he was in.

Bettina Mills, Rivieres, France

This movie may be the single biggest piece of garbage I have ever seen. They took my nine fifty at the window and gave me absolutely nothing in return. I felt like they just took from me again throughout the whole thing. No hero, no story, no real humor, absolutely nothing. There was nothing at all up there. What a change from the guy that made Edward Scissorhands, which was one of the more beautiful movies I've ever seen. This was basically the opposite. It was like the work of a child armed with 100 million dollars.

Dan, Chicago, il

Simon, you are a sad man. Sondheim is an incredibly talented musician. It does take a little bit of musical education and experience to appreciate his talents, but then, he never intended his music to be for the Mary Poppins aficionados.

Seanie - witty observation.

I, too, cannot wait to se it.

Marc, St. Barths,

Fabulous! Sondheim himself oversaw the filming of his brilliant musical and it was his preference for actors who can sing over singers who can act was right on - Depp & Bonham-Carter make up in intensity what they lack vocally, but both are, in fact, very passable singers.

Jacky Finch, Toronto, Canada

I saw it! Marvelous!! A Bloody Love Story of Revenge and Bone-Breaking .

Nick Murphy, Repentigny, Quebec , Canada

If he can make a decent flick out of Sondheim's typically dull melodies and tedious scoring, it will be a miracle. But I have faith in Burton.

Simon, London, UK

Well worth the price of admission. Sondheim's brilliant music is more or less intact and the actors,with microphone techniques, make it convincing. The only weakness was that, though Bonham-Carter's look is perfect for the role, her voice didn't quite carry the very witty lyrics given to Mrs. Lovett.

ross, Woodstock, Canada

Seen it, loved it, Go watch it!

dmo, Stanstead, Herts

I Can't wait for Tim Burton film on Joe Meek with Johnny Depp.
That will be something.

Tulio, London,

Can't wait! Burton, Depp and Bonham-Carter - what a trio!

Paul, Glasgow, Scotland

"The gleaming monochrome shots of cobbled streets are drained of colour."

Yep, that's generally what happens with monochrome.

Tsk.

seanie, London,