Anna Kendrick and Johnny Depp were the best cast

Okay, before reading your post in this thread I had already read some of yours in other threads and was already skeptical regarding your taste in entertainment, especially after noting your username. But this one tells me you are either deaf in both ears, have your musical taste in your feet, or that you are seriously lacking something when it comes to Broadway musicals, especially those written by Mr. Sondheim.

My reason for such harsh assumptions? Between Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter, it's difficult to determine whose horrible singing completely ruined Tim Burton's film version of Sweeney Todd. I have nothing negative to say regarding the acting talents of either of them, but neither of them can sing worth a crap, and definitely didn't have the chops to perform music of Sondheim's calibre, especially the masterpiece you use as a benchmark for which to measure Depp's "awesome" singing.

But then again, who am I to argue with a huge fan of the leading lady of the Twilight franchise? I am merely one of Sondheim's many purists who owns recordings of every one of his musicals in their many incarnations as well as being a singer and musician myself.

I'm with you on Depp and Kendrick handing in the most bearable performances in the movie.

They didn't quite save it for me. I couldn't bring myself to like the movie overall. the tone and subject matter is way too dark. And much too much of the dialogue and song is delivered in style that was in the realm of abrasive to shrill, and annoying.

Even my nine year old girl couldn't quite make it to the end.

I thought that Johnny Depp was perfectly serviceable, but nothing special in the role. It's not much of a role in the first place, especially when it's not paired with Cinderella's Prince. But it seemed to me that he was doing exactly what he did in Sweeney Todd, down to the accent (was that his "Sondheim voice"?). And--now this isn't his fault--I hated his costume. I understood the desire to make him more human in an anthropomorphic way, but in that case I think they could've done better to go almost the route of Jeff Goldblum in Faerie Tale Theatre's Three Little Pigs (https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-02/12/16/enhanced/webdr06/grid-cell-13118-1423776746-5.jpg).

I thought Anna Kendrick was wonderful, but I thought that most of the cast was terrific. And there wasn't a bum voice in the lot. Johnny Depp, actually, was the weakest singer but we already knew what to expect of him from Sweeney Todd, and he sang just fine in this. As far as standout performances, I thought Christine Baranski and Tracey Ullman were brilliant in their roles.