A movie based on a famous play that only 0.000001% of the general population have seen but who seem to keep snobbishly lording it over the rest of us because they have (ie: theatre snobs), it's about a man long exhiled from London for a crime he didn't commit and returned to find everythign he knew gone, his daughter in the hands of his accurser who happens to be a powerful judge. Calling himself now Sweeney Todd, he sets up shop as a barber again, this time for some major blood-letting in his quest for revenge.

Not all that bad, but the endless musical numbers can get a little nit tiring; at times I just wanted to hear some normal dialogue. Other musicals I've seen in days gone by involved some dancing sequences as well, but these served merely to be exposition. Johny Depp is pretty good in his role, in a story that, even if you've not seen the play, you can guess the basic plot of just by observing the opening credit sequence. Oh, and a warning; the blood-letting looks pretty realizstic; it actually looks like real people and their throats that he's cutting through (or in so,me cases, hacking).

Want to know how to send high-brow theatre-play goers run screaming at you? Just tell them this. Sweeney Todd is basically a slasher flick, plain and simple. Sorta cross between Count of Montecristo and Friday the 13th, but with less plot. As a movie I guess it's okay, but its 2-hour running time seemed a long two hours (unlike some three hour movies I've seen that seemed to fly by).