Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: **½ (out of a possible **** stars)

I usually despise musicals (at least until the Planet of the Apes musical from the Simpsons becomes reality), but this one was dark and gory enough to at least hold my interest. That said, it still would have been much better if it WASN’T filled with songs. Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, and Helena Bonham Carter (Fight Club, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) were all at their creepy best (actually, I can’t imagine any one of them ever NOT being creepy), but some of the violence actually got kind of repetitive and gross. Watching someone’s throat get slashed open with a razor surprisingly loses much of it’s appeal after the fifth or sixth time...