http://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review/sweeney-todd-the-demon-barber-of-fleet-street-blu-ray/1418
This review helps establish her character in the film and also how her performance and choice of wardrobe are used to enhance the acting seen:
"As Sweeney's meat-pie cooking accomplice, a slyly covetous Helena Bonham Carter wears her hair in an auburn rat's nest and dresses in glamorously careless dishabille, all torn lace and tattered flounces, as she wields her rolling pin to wallop stray cockroaches. The comic songs fall to her, ditties extolling her foul baked goods or guiding Sweeney to choose a likely victim, but she also indulges in a surreal fantasia of marriage and mock family life with the resolutely morose Sweeney, the two joined together as butcher and baker, at least until they waltz into an infernal furnace."
It shows that her portrayal contains elements of gothic (particularly in her appearance) that are mixed with certains amounts of comedy and also presents her diversity by hilighting the fact that she sings in this role, something not common with her other work. It also signifies her wicked and evil nature that is present and how her character works in contrast to anything else she has done.
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