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I have never been so scared in my life - there are just too many people
out there who cannot overcome their desires to seek revenge. This revenge
is usually predigated upon an imagined or a real wrong for which the term
'forgiveness' does not even enter into the equation.
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I don't even know where to begin when it comes to this film. This is probably one of the worst cast's I have ever seen for this show. Most of the people cast in this movie couldn't even hold a note and did not portray the character's well at all.
A huge disappointment. I've seen the show on Broadway and at many regional theatre's and this is the worst production I've ever seen of the show.
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The problem with the original stage version of this Sondheim musical was apparent at the time: it's a shallow story. Dressed up as it was in Brechtian stage business, adorned with two brilliant performances (Angela Lansbury and eventually George Hearn) and with the fine staging by Harold Prince, it at least seemed to be about something, even if later you realized it wasn't. It's a penny dreadful with aspirations to high art, but it's still a penny dreadful. Tragedy? Sorry. The central character doesn't have the stature for that: he's just a vengeful zero, and Mrs. Lovett a very bad cook.
The film jettisons everything that made the stage version so entertaining, starting with the humor. Please don't tell me it's dark and subtle -- it's gone. And without the high-octane vocal performances of Lansbury and Hearn (or any of their stage successors) the songs don't land right -- they're enervated. Only Ed Sanders as the boy Toby and to a lesser extent Jamie Campbell Bower seem capable to getting their numbers across, and in the case of Sanders doing so superbly. The character of Mrs. Lovett in particular is all wrong: Carter plays her as too smart, and the manic music hall energy that Lansbury brought to the role, and that the film needs so desperately, is lost. Irony? Look elsewhere. Tim Burton doesn't do irony.
What did Burton want the audience to take away from this picture? His grasp of human nature remains stubbornly infantile, and the film devolves into a nihilistic bloodbath. Poor guy, he can't get over the fact that bad things happen.
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A great movie and great perfomance from Johnny Depp and Alan Rickman. Very bloody. I would not suggest this to children under 16.
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Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), a barber embittered by the destruction of his family and his own unjust imprisonment, returns to London filled with bloodlust and anger, thirsting for revenge against the man responsible for his family's downfall (Alan Rickman). While waiting for his big chance, he slaughters scores of customers, who are then recycled into meat pies served by Todd's accomplice and would-be lover, Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter).
Once again, director Tim Burton has found a fitting subject for his unique sensibility. His London is a dark, creepy warren of twisting back alleys and dank sewers. He does not compromise the basic savagery of this story, presenting a musical that features more blood than most slasher films. The reprehensible nature most of the characters is not prettied up for the screen; each of them is taken to their logical extreme and meets a richly deserved fate. I haven't seen the show as presented on stage, so I can't comment on how it compares to this compressed version, but I found the film to be quite satisfying in its own right (with the exception of one "surprise" that I saw coming from a mile away). The actors, who are not noted for their singing ability, acquit themselves well with Stephen Sondheim's excellent score.
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