|
|
|
|
Genres:
|
Drama /
Horror /
Musical /
Thriller
|
|
Release:
|
|
|
Director:
|
Tim Burton
|
|
Actors:
|
Alan Rickman,
Helena Bonham Carter,
Sacha Baron Cohen,
Jayne Wisener,
Jody Halse,
Lee Whitlock,
Laura Michelle Kelly,
Ed Sanders,
Gracie May,
Ava May,
Gabriella Freeman,
Aron Paramor,
Johnny Depp,
Timothy Spall,
Jamie Campbell Bower
|
|
Duration:
|
116 min.
|
|
Rating:
|
(7.8/10)82.5
|
|
Plot Summary:
|
In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the terrific Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the notoriety of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not delegate and abuses Lucy later after gaining custodianship of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the original congruence of Sweeney Todd, seeking give someone a taste of his against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy committed suicide with arsenic to... ns years ago, and Turpin assigned himself train of Johanna. He opens a barber shop primarily her hold, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.
Read more Less
|
|
Tags:
|
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Carina Chocano
Tim Burton???s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece Sweeney Todd is a funny, moody musical blood bath. It's also notably cuter than its famous theatrical predecessors -- which I guess is what happens when you cast Johnny Depp as the serial throat-slitter and Helena Bonham Carter as his cannibal pie-making accomplice.
Sweeney Todd may be the most outrageously macabre piece of musical theater ever created, but Burton can't help but make it pretty too -- from the gloomy, rain-slicked streets of Victorian London, to the moony Goth stylishness of its leads, to the split-open pomegranate throats of Sweeney's unsuspecting victims and the various torrents, geysers and wellsprings of glow-in-the-dark blood that spurt from them.
Scaled d...
A very long two hours
Ok, I went in not thinking and hadn't twigged it was a musical, and I loathe musicals, so it was never going to be good for me. But even so, this seems a particularly bad example of the genre. Depp sings like a bad Bowie impersonator (think Phil Cornwell) and the songs are weak. When he and Rickman are singing about pretty women I couldn't restrain my laughter.
My general gripe with musicals is that the songs just get in the way - they don't move the narrative along, so you're just waiting for them to finish and get back to the real film. This is particularly true with this film. But it looks good, and when they're not arseing about with duff songs, it is engaging and enjoyable enough. It's just those songs....
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Todd McCarthyBoth sharp and fleet, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street proves a satisfying screen version of Stephen Sondheim???s landmark 1979 theatrical musical. Where much could have gone wrong, things have turned out uniformly right thanks to highly focused direction by Tim Burton, expert screw-tightening by scenarist John Logan, and haunted and musically adept lead performances from Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Assembled artistic combo assures the film will reap by far the biggest audience to see a pure Sondheim musical, although just how big depends on the upscale crowd???s tolerance for buckets of blood, and the degree to which the masses stay away due to the whiff of the highbrow. In all events, DreamWorks-Paramount and Warner Bros. have a cla...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Claudia PuigThere pass on be blood - seeping, spurting and splattering - in this mesmerizing and approvingly entertaining film adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Ogre Barber of Swift Way. But separate from more realistic serious along, the puncture in this dispirited Gothic marvel feels exaggeratedly theatrical and a mandatory percentage of the hokey havoc. Sweeney Todd is the best confederation of filmmaker and facts. Director Tim Burton has adapted Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning lilting in a darkly talented and comical vogue. Johnny Depp is perfectly hurl as the barber who transforms himself from the embittered, falsely imprisoned Benjamin Barker to the demonic, vengeful Sweeney Todd. He's undeniably the same of the best actors of his generation, and t...
Burton and Sondheim - a perfect match!
Adapted from the Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler dulcet of the same name, Sweeney Todd is a weighty falsehood of love, betrayal, revenge, and bloody murder in the heart of London in the late 19th Century. What better director to carry the Tony Accord amiable devise exhibit to the screen than Tim Burton. His elegance and vision on videotape sets the unrivalled gothic framework seeking the dispatch to unveil. Wrongly accused of a crime, and sent away allowing for regarding life, a young barber named Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) awaits the broad daylight he can benefit and grasp vengeance on those who wrongly convicted him. The film begins with him arriving in London in the company of a young sailor named Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower), where he rapidly seeks to his adept home. There ...
|
