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Sweeney Todd is back, and this time on the big screen.This is definately not a movie for the faint-hearted. the play has on stage.This is a very good and smart production that uses the weaknesses of the actors into achieving something good, (like the uneducated voice of Mr. If you are expecting a classic musical with happy songs and joyful feelings, this is not the movie for you. In this adaptation of the musical Sweeny Todd loses all the subtly(¿). Depp making the character more believable).The whole thing feels so surreal and cruel it gives you the feeling of the character's madness and pain after the first minutes.I think some scenes were morbidly added to cause some of the audience to look away off the screen, and were unnecesary, but if you enjoy gore, you'll enjoy some of the cracking sounds.The talent selection was good, but makes me wonder if some of the actors were put there just because recent success on their careers, or they'd really fit the character, specially the young ones which were very dull and unappealing, you just can't wait for their scenes to be over. A good job by the Dark Duo (Burton&Depp)
This movie and the music therein is soooooo good. I highly recommend this seller, too. They were super cool and groovy.
Lovett. Not to everyone's taste - especially if you are squeamish - is this Grand Guignol song-story of revenge, murder and the worst meat-pies in London, splashed with blood the color of Chanel lipstick and dark humor. What Tim Burton has made of it may not be quite what this revengers' tragedy was on stage and at full length. Set on revenge, he sets up shop as a barber in his old home, upstairs from the cheerfully larcenous Mrs. and there you have the most of it; almost too Edward Gorey-comical to be a horror movie, but almost too gory to fit into the musical comedy bracket. But it is original and lives up to what we have come to expect of any collaboration between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp.
The bodies pile up through-out, dumped through a trapdoor into the cellar and efficiently transformed into meat pies by Mrs. In fact the humor is pitch black, only slightly darker than grim and grimy London in some slightly pre-Victorian age. There is a small sub-plot, regarding his daughter Joanna, kept captive by the wicked judge - and a young sailor and shipboard comrade of Sweeney Todd's - but mostly it is about Sweeney Todd's implacable quest for vengeance. even if (as has been noted in other reviews) a large portion of Stephen Sondheim's literate and witty lyrical numbers were sacrificed to the demands of a movie with a running time of about half the length of the full stage production.The plot is whisper-thin, an urban legend or a melancholy ballad about a young man who once had a happy home, with a beautiful wife and a baby daughter. But a wicked and corrupt judge sentences him on false charges to transportation to Australia, and when he returns fifteen years later, it appears that his wife is dead, and his daughter is the ward of the judge. Lovett.
I would not allow pre-teens to watch this, by the way; it's fairly guaranteed to be productive of screaming nightmares for those children sensitive to video violence.Of the extras included on this disc, the most interesting of them was an examination of the origins of the `Sweeney Todd - Demon Barber of Fleet Street'; it appears that he was an urban legend, a creation of a writer for the most sensational 19th century broadsheets, somewhat akin to the stories of the hook-handed man who was supposed to haunt lovers lanes in the US.
The movie itself was beyond amazing. I was hesitant to purchase this movie online, at first. I was so impressed with both Johnny and Helena's singing. But I am so glad I did. Not only was the DVD in perfect condition when I got it but it came in 2 business days. The rest of the cast was as talented and wonderful as they could be. A must buy.
A few problems: the "God That's Good" number-which opened the second act was much better on the stage-and was more interesting in that this was the moment when the barber chair arrived and was tested. I sat in the second row-so I got to see all the gore up close. Now the movie: okay, HB Carter CANNOT sing, although she has a goth creepiness to her that Angela didn't. Not that his voice is all that great either but he simply has the sex appeal that the other schlub lacked and thus provided a rationale why Mrs. He also looks terrific with his makeup and that white streak in the hair. Victor Garber played Anthony in a stiff manner, and the girl who played Joanna was such a dear thing you wanted to choke her. The only problem was that Angela Lansbury clearing wasn't up to the part in terms of the singing requirements of the role-but I loved her anyway.
I kept waiting for her to "get it" from "Dad". I still LOVED the show. I saw Sweeney Todd in March of 1979 in preview on Broadway. Johnny was a much better S.T. than Len Cariou, who looked like an a-hole with that wig on-(he also had problems vocally) but Johnny is the perfect Sweeney. Lovett was so crazy about him. The stage Toby was portrayed as retarded and was a lot older. Additionally I loved the voice of the kid who played Toby--he was better than Ken Jennings' stage Toby and much younger and more workhouse convincing.
I was mesmorized and couldn't get it out of my head for months. And unfortunately the ending of the movie is weak--where the hell is "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" which opened and closed the play. The latter was way more cockney and much funnier in the part--loony funny. I give this only 4 stars because of Bonham-Carter. This ending is too abrupt and drab (the film would have grossed 10 million more with the stage ending)-did Tim Burton think it was too "theatrical"--but what's more theatrical that this show. I loved the astonishing production design of the film and the marvellous costumes and of course let's not forget Borat himself as Pirelli-just marvelous in this small part.
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