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Here it is Halloween, and it seems like a good time to write a review for Tim Burton's film, "Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". This is Burton's cinematic adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's ghoulishly, over-the-top, classic Broadway musical of murder and revenge with a smile.
The story takes place in grim, urban, Victorian-era London. Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), a skilled barber by trade, has come back to town under the new identity of 'Sweeny Todd'. For fifteen years Todd/Barker had been falsely imprisoned on trumped-up charges. This had been brought about by the self-rightious, Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who had coveted, Todd's young, pretty wife, Lucy, for himself. Todd returns home only to find out his wife has supposably died of self-poisoning and his teenage daughter, Johanna (Jayne Wisener) is now the ward of the lascivious, Judge. Todd, with the help of landlady/pie maker, Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), obsessively follows through on a bloody, murderous plan to get his revenge on all those he feels "deserve to die" and ultimately get Judge Turpin into the barber's chair "for the closest shave of his life".
Sounds like black stuff, right? Well yeah, it is...black as night. But it is written as a tragedy, that has both a wink and and a small smile and a truely hummable, toe tappin' soundtrack. In the end its sort of like a perverse tribute to our culture's love of family. Its a musical for the 'Goth Kids'. But if your not into copious amounts of blood being spilled with a straight razor, while people are singing, then this isn't the film for you. For everyone else with a morbid, Charles Adams sense of humor, this movie is fantastic! Its emotionally moving, funny and entertaining! Highly recommended!
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While many fans were somewhat disappointed with this version, I absolutely loved it. There are a few story changes from the original Broadway Production, and some songs are missing, but I still love the story and love the performances. Johnny Depp is spot on as usual bringing the tradegy of 'Mr. Todd' right to your heart, making you feel sorry for him, and yet scaring the hell out of you at the same time. Helena Bonham Carter has never been my favorite actress, but you can tell how much dedication she puts into 'Mrs. Lovett' and I have to say she steals the show away from Depp at many points. While she is no Angela Lansbury, she still manages to take this part and make it her own. The cast is wonderful, the music entrancing, and the overall art just amazing. A definite must own guaranteed to help you have a good time. BUY IT!
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Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Filled with the color red, SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET was the perfect "Christmas movie"...even if the "red" was blood. Gushers and gushers of blood.
I'm joking, of course.
I think the fact that a picture whose "hero" is a serial killer and involves cannibalism was released into theaters on Christmas week of 2007 is rather ludicrous. Certainly Halloween would have been more appropriate. But, that's a discussion for another day.
Directed by Tim Burton in a dark style reminiscent of his equally excellent SLEEPY HOLLOW, SWEENEY TODD features a bleak, almost colorless production design in the film that is absolutely mesmerizing. Indeed, as previously stated, the only prominent color is red.
The movie won the Academy Award for its Art Direction.
Johnny Depp and Helen Bonham Carter are superb in the two leading roles, and Stephen Sondhiem's music and lyrics are extremely clever, particularly "A Little Priest," Johanna" and "Pretty Women".
The plot, set in London during the early 19th-century, finds barber Sweeney Todd (Depp) returning from prison and exile to seek revenge on the corrupt judge (Alan Rickman) who framed him so that he could steal his wife. Todd is helped by Mrs. Lovett (Carter), who owns a bake shop and makes "the worst pies in London".
While awaiting an opportunity give the judge a very "close shave," Todd and Mrs. Lovett devise a plan whereby he will slice the throats of his unsuspecting customers and she will turn their bodies into meat pies.
Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen are fine in two of the movie's key villainous roles, as is Ed Sanders, the boy who plays "Toby". He is a terrific performer.
Also in the cast are Jamie Campbell Bower, Jayne Wisener and Laura Michelle Kelly.
SWEENEY TODD is not for the faint of heart, but it is a brilliantly executed picture that deserves all the accolades that it received.
The 2-disc "Special Edition" DVD from DreamWorks Home Entertainment has many "Making of" and "Behind the Scenes" featurettes that focus on the various aspects of the production, plus a documentary on the "Real History of Sweeney Todd" and the origins of the stage musical.
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)
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I believe that the book of "Sweeney Todd" is a fine example of the classical tragic plot structure, but with an ingenious twist. Too bad that Tim Burton's interpretation ignored Aristotle's explanation of the obscene - the need for abhorrent events to occur off-stage - and killed the way the tragic plot structure should work.
What makes this musical great is the way the truly evil Sweeney Todd works as the tragic hero, even though he is actually the moral anti-hero. In making the final scene so gross and bloody, Burton steals the viewer's ability to feel compassion for Todd, thus making it impossible to see him as a genuine tragic figure.
Catering to the modern need for detailed "real" gore, Burton chooses to dispel the real heart of this story. We are meant to feel genuine pity for Todd, but can't in this truly obscene interpretation and thus lose the catharsis which is the whole point of tragedy.
This is especially too bad, I think, because everything else about the film is excellent - the cast and their acting, the design, the filming... all amazing. If only I could have felt Todd's tragedy. Sigh.
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When I watched Sweeney Todd for the first time I was afraid that I would hate it because of it being a musical but I was completely overwelmed by this magnificent film based on Stephen Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece and for fans of Broadway and Sondheim, it's hard to imagine getting a better adaptation than this. What suprised me even more was that I'm not even a fan of Burton's films. Here Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again to bring this musical thriller alive and in the process Depp give one of his finest performances to date as the evil barber Sweeney Todd a wronged man whose lust for revenge drives him to murder.
I was attracted to it's dark but beautiful story about the return of a barber who wants revenge upon someone, in fact this in my opinion is probaly Depp's best film and character he's ever done before. The gory throat cutting scenes were all suitable and made the movie even darker. The actors all managed to sing their parts beautifully and efficently which made the film even better. The special features are also very rich with detail and entertainment with rehearsals of the singing and also the making of the movie.
The cast is perfect with Johnny Depp who plays Sweeney Todd the villianous barber with Helena Bohen Carter as the loveable Mrs Lovett, Alan Rickman as the evil Judge Turpin, Timothy Spall as Beadle and Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) as a rival barber . All in all this is a classic in the movie industry and defiantly is worth seeing!
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