You know, I am a massive Depp fan and I suppose I ought to have expected someting totally off the wall. The subject matter is not exactly "feel-good" after all is it? Depp and co just made it as black (or red) as possible. The gore was gratuitous and overplayed. The singing was just lilting to the script, not really songs as such. You could amuse your friends by putting your daily conversation in a sing song way too. It would be just about as effective. Depp was dark, moody, and of course sexy, as far as it went, but we came out feeling somewhat shell shocked and not really pleased to have been to see the film. Sacha Cohen's perfomance as the "Italian" barber was very funny and the undoubted highlight of the movie. It was just all too far over the top, not Depp at his best IMHO, and not the sort of film you would want to see more than once for sure.
