About just-over-halfway through Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd adaptation. Depp's accent is distracting in a way that the Jack Sparrow accent was not. Helena Bonham Carter is great, as is a surprisingly understated performance by Alan Rickman. The boy and girl actors look like they sprouted half-formed from Burton's head. The girl looks almost as much a caricature as some of the characters from the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. She's just... unnatural looking.
The establishing shot visuals all look like Polish fantasy landscape paintings: filthy, gritty, and dark. The songs are great; I may look up earlier film versions, see how they handle it. The music has such an ironic air to it that Burton's visuals seem overbearing.
But overall, I'm actually enjoying it more than a lot of his recent stuff, excepting Big Fish. I've really enjoyed the comic timing and have laughed quite a bit, which makes the wife worry when there's that much blood spurting around.
