Oh good grief. Let the cinematic incest party rage on! It’s now being reported that Helena Bonham Carter is joining Johnny Depp and Sacha Baron Cohen in Sweeney Todd. Directed by… the most overrated uni-stylistic director around, Tim Burton (don’t get me wrong, I like one or two of his flicks, and did enjoy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory… but man I hate this guys movies for the most part).
I’m all for teams, and buddy flicks from time to time… but how many Burton films can have the exact same cast all the fricken time (at least that’s what it feels like). One of my biggest problems with Burton films (and yes, I know I’m in the minority here) is that so many of his fricken films, for the most part, feel the same… and always having the same bloody actors in his projects isn’t helping, even if one of the actors is as good as Johnny Depp.
The good folks at Movieweb give us this:
she will play the diabolical meat pie-maker Mrs. Lovett in the film directed by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp and Sacha Baron Cohen. Based on the Stephen Sondheim play, Mrs. Lovett is a murderess who dispenses her victims’ bodies in meat pies and becomes the amorous accomplice of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
OOooo… I’m Tim Burton… I’m sooooo daarrrkkk… and troubled… I am goth incarnate…. look at my crazy hair, that’s the hair of an artist… see how artistic I am… just look at my collection of crazy and DARK glasses! Gimme a break. YAAWWNNN. (It’s always fun reading the comments after I put up a negative Tim Burton post)
