Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Pros: Wonderful performance by Depp. Entertaining musical.
Cons: Will be too bloody for some people.

Johnny Depp has played many different types of characters over the course of his career, many of which have been unique or quirky in some way. He has worked with Tim Burton several times in some very entertaining movies. When I first heard that Johnny ...

Pros: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman.
Cons: So dark, wasn't crazy about the music either.

Sweeney Todd is probably one of the bloodiest musicals that has ever been staged on Broadway. The murder count makes even the standard opera plot pale in comparison. Leave it to Tim Burton with his wife Helena Carter Bonham and good friend and ...

Pros: Mood, setting
Cons:

Casting, choice of song editing, everything except mood.

Several months ago, I wrote a review of the play Equus--not the movie version, but the printed play. In the review, I specifically state that anyone reading the review avoid the movie at all costs because it would ruin the experience should ...

Pros: fascinating, fun, dark musical; cast; music; presentation
Cons: well, I don't eat meat of any kind or like the sight of blood...

NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she had fun with the book Legs Diamond. **************** No sooner does Dr. Defiance storm out of my office than my ...

Pros: Depp is decent, Bohnam Carter is decent, the film looked great
Cons: it got boring, very violent, not as good as I had hoped, no real drama/suspense

I learned of Sweeney Todd through television and then through another film, and find myself needing to blame that on living our West for so long. I didn't really know what was at the heart of the story, but got the hint when so many jokes had made it ...

Pros: outstanding cast, vocals, arresting visuals
Cons: so... much... blood...

Ever since my brother Nathan decided he was a theatre enthusiast, he's been introducing us to some rather unusual fare. One of the shows he's been gushed about the most is Steven Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. When I ...

Pros: Acting, direction, adaptation from stage play to film
Cons: Brace yourself for lots of blood

Ingredient #1: a barber, falsely imprisoned by a corrupt judge who subsequently raped the barber’s wife and kidnapped his baby daughter. The barber arrives back in London fifteen years later to find his wife poisoned by her own hand and his ...

Pros: great music, scary story, costumes, cinematography, acting
Cons: quality of voices doing the singing, editing of score

I'm a huge fan of both Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Over the years I have enjoyed their collaborations. I had not just high hopes, but high expectations for their adaptation of Sweeney Todd. I was glad that Burton was going back to working with flesh and ...

Pros: Lively and funny, dark and dreadful, and always hits the right note.
Cons: None.

Sweeney Todd (2007) Directed by Tim Burton. Narrator: This is the tale of an ordinary man, who had everything…. Mrs. Lovett : Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker. Narrator : Until a man of power stole his freedom, ...

Pros: The singing, plot, sets, the make-up and costumes were right on the money!
Cons: Warning…this movie ain’t for everyone!

What a beautiful, horribly grotesque film. I so wish I would have seen this one at the theatre. For months my husband has been anticipating the arrival of Sweeney Todd and when we didn’t make it to see it on the big screen , he was counting down the ...

Pros: Excellent acting, pretty good singing, stayed true to the stage play, visually stimulating.
Cons: Blood didn't look real, may be too intense/gross for some.

I don’t go to the movies very often. Only about once a year. The cost of the ticket annoys me, the cost of popcorn angers me, and sounds of people yapping, coughing, and crunching thru the whole movie and forgetting to turn their cell phones off ...

Pros: Excellent performances from a non-singing cast and oodles of black humour
Cons: Not a lot - perhaps the little urchin gets a shade too much screen time...

After years of disappointing dabbles with big-budget productions – most obviously Planet of the Apes, but let's not forget quite large parts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Mars Attacks! - director Tim Burton has gone back to his roots. ...

Pros: Tight scripting; beautifully rendered acting and singing
Cons: Cons? Er, a vengeful barber whose corpses are turned into meat pies? You tell me

I came to Sweeney Todd with a clean slate, as it were. I'd never seen any of the previous stage or screen versions, and I'm generally adverse to the archly ironic style of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim. All of that said, I was thoroughly ...

Pros: Lots of good special features, actors, music, beautiful tragic story.
Cons: Not for everyone.

NOTE: This review is for the 2-Disk Special Edition DVD of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I first saw Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in December 2007 when it was in theaters. I didn't know what to expect, but I really ...

Pros: Excellent performances by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Edward Sanders and Alan Rickman. 
Cons: A little too much gore for my taste even if it wasn't real blood.

We had movie night tonight with some friends over, which was fun with all the snacks and trimmings.  Someone chose Sweeney Todd:  The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as our first movie.  I had never watched the original version ...