Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

It keeps getting bloodier by the scene, yet remains curiously engaging.

Without any warmth and humor at all, how are you meant to care? I'm not saying you always have to care about someone in a movie - not at all - but here the story is so ludicrous that, unless you can, why bother?

This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.

This is a remarkable piece of work for people who like their genres all mashed together in a meat grinder.

A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia.

As unsettling as it is riveting. Even Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered.

An entertaining piece of graphic poetry. When the blood starts to spurt, sputter and spit, it’s in just the right shade — not so thick and crimson as to be off-putting but not so fake and thin as to have no impact.

A big, bold musical that functions as an upscale slasher film: It’s bloody but also bloody good.

Director Tim Burton does take an iconoclastic approach to the material: here is a musical where characters whisper rather than belting to the back row. Burtons approach, while unusual by musical standards, is precisely what makes the movie work.

Burton delivers quite the engaging musical that overflows with his signature aesthetic style. Sweeney Todd leaves its mark on the genre. [Full review in Spanish}