Review – Sweeney Todd

Why can’t American Idol competitors ever do songs from musicals like this? I’d totally pay the standard text messaging rates to vote for anyone with the guts to perform “The Worst Pies in London.” Overall this is exactly what you’d expect when Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter take on a musical about an upstairs barber who butchers his patrons so the woman who owns the downstairs restaurant can bake them into meat pies. As usual with Burton, the murky, atmospheric art direction is the real star of the show. But the cast also does a solid job of keeping things entertaining. Worth seeing