Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

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Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd a.k.a Benjamin Barker returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin with the help of a sailor, Anthony Hope. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie Shop were she sells "the worst pies in London"... (imdb)

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Directed By: Tim Burton

Written By: John Logan, Stephen Sondheim, Hugh Wheeler

Starring: Timothy Spall, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jayne Wisener, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ed Sanders, Lee Whitlock

Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Musical, Horror

Franchise: Sweeney Todd

Country: UK, USA

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Stars	User	Rating
5	BillyShears	65 _42nd
Oi every day is cold and grey / these heaving bosoms keep da blues at bay . 2 hours of the exact same song.
3	HunterKing	64 _18th
Accomplishes two things: creates one of the most visually beautiful (or terrible) Burton films in a long while, and creates throat-slitting urges whenever anybody sings a note.
3	jadedkitty	90 _70th
Songs about murder and cannibalism just sit really well with me.
2	Boobjuice	50 _48th
Goddamnit! I wanted so badly to like this but... musicals. Fucking musicals! I recognize that it's well-done, I know that, and I would tell people to give it a chance---it's just not for me. You know, 'cause... singing. Too much singing.
2	Adalon	90 _99th
Deserves all the plaudits that it gets. Wonderful cast, some songs better than others - some sounded too much like those from Jesus Christ Superstar. The best musical of recent times, enjoyable from start to end.
2	Bitch Alert	60 _50th
Burton's aesthetics are still there but at the end it comes down to the singing: the songs are mainly boring and there are too many of them. Depp and Bonham Carter are strong as well as Rickman and Baron Cohen, but still - a huge, huge disappointment.
2	toxicwind	4 _12th
Hot topic much?
1	fudgieb	87 _62nd
For a Depp film...this one felt a little bit overworked. The world seemed a little familiar already and the character was a little rehash of Edward Scissorhands. The lead roles were well cast, though, and no one plays Edward Scissorhands better the second time around as Johnny Depp.
1	eveelun	73 _52nd
Burton's trademark style is wonderfully suited for this tale, infusing it with just the right amount of macabre horror and black humor. While thought the trio of Depp, Carter, and Rickman were great (I thought Carter was a standout), the younger actors irritated me and the songs were hit and miss.
1	DavidKahane	74 _54th
I'll say this for Burton: he didn't flinch. In bringing this material from the stage to the screen, it would have been easy to soften it, finesse away the darkest of the dark elements, demurely turn the camera away whenever the title character opened up another throat. Instead all of its anger and brutality are intact. It's a solid effort, but also somewhat constrained. Save for the number "By the Sea," none of the staging is especially novel. If great films sing, "Sweeney Todd" hums.
1	cambel	61 _35th
Tim Burton should work on his own musicals. This one was an alternative to other musicals and the ending was pretty cool. But overall, neither Burton's directing nor Depp's acting can make it interesting enough. The only wild card Sweeney has is its gore material, nothing more.
1	AgentSnipe	83 _81st
Sweeney Todd is a great musical. The film is okay, but was not marketed as a musical, which is strange because I would say 80% of the movie is music. Tim Burton does some interesting things with this film. 1.) It's the bloodiest musical ever made. 2.) Burton casts two non-musical actors as his leads. Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are not strong singers, but fake their way through it. Bonham Carter is great, but Depp is a disappointment as he wears a permanent scowl through the whole film.
1	Filligan	95 _92nd
Dark and moody with wonderful music. The acting, direction, images, style... it's all enough to give you goosebumps. I can see why this very well could be held as Burton's masterpiece.
1	Ytadel	2 _14th
Surprisingly sedate considering the murder / revenge / cannibalism-centric plot, perhaps because this is so tailored to Burton and Depp's style that it feels predictable. It certainly passed the time, Alan Rickman could give a great performance acting across from a ham, and I enjoyed the gory kills (despite the too-bright blood), but all and all I found it fairly unimpressive.
1	timmo	70 _28th
Good production. The songs are fine. The movie is bad, though.
1	teknicolor	88 _88th
Some of the songs were not so good, but overall this was an enjoyable movie. Rickman, Depp, Cohen, and Carter were wonderful, in that order. Definitely a must-see.
1	jasonmyers	41 _10th
I went into this movie wanting to like what I saw, but unfortunately the fake blood, sub-par singing, and dull relationships left me cold. Sascha Baron was a bright spot on a long boring adaptation.
1	Mojo_Jojo	40 _23rd
Felt rather like constant fan service aimed at the teenage goth market. Most of the actors didn't have strong enough voices or interesting enough songs. All in all it's rather mundane.
1	angrypierre	82 _79th
Ticks all the usual Burton boxes. Dark? Check. Blackly comedic? Check. Depp and Bonham-Carter? Check. Certainly not Burton's best effort. The source material is mostly to blame for that. Whilst some of the songs are very good, others much weeker or confusing (can't deal with two people singing different things at once). Overall though I really enjoyed it as something a bit different.
1	PeaceAnarchy	79 _57th
Very interesting and worth watching. Burton was a great match for the material and it's very well put together, with a dark mood and pretty good acting.
1	Hanne	89 _98th
Bloody, dark, sexy (yes, let's all admit it!) and the whole musical thing is just hilarious but totally suits the whole thing. Almost perfect except for some corny/boring songs, but that's completely forgiven because of all the compensation given in blood.
1	bkudria	86 _57th
Fantastic performances by Depp, Carter, and Rickman. Gore and singing make for a great movie.
1	2.35	85 _26th
Doesn't utilize all the good aspects of the stage play. The dropping of several songs and cutting of characterization hurts the movie. Sweeney's a whiz-bang show, but that didn't carry over into the film. Too bad.
1	Quicky	65 _49th
I'm not that big of a Tim Burton fan, and I'm not really into musicals either, so all in all I actually enjoyed it better than I thought I would. Johnny Depp is quite a good singer, though it was Helena Bonham Carter that made the best impression on my singing-wise. I did enjoy the dark and bloody cinematography, and the music in general, but I couldn't really connect to the movie.
1	crazyBobcat	90 _99th
An absolutely brilliant, beautiful rendition of the classic story. It's very obviously a Tim Burton movie, but the Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Burton triumverate works majestically in this must-see cinematic triumph.
1	Jeb	96 _89th
Just....wow.
1	NathanDarko	99 _99th
My favorite Movie 2007, great Cast, great Music. It's a Masterpiece. So darkly and romantic for those who live on the dark side !!
1	Delirium9	100 _93rd
I was still singing the songs for weeks afterwards... Visually stunning and excellent acting by Johnny, as usual. Alan Rickman was excellent too, also as usual.
1	luc	72 _80th
A bloody musical that we don't see every day, nice done. The singing was not excellent but decent. At the end it becomes more and more bloody. J.Depp played here again a weird role, good movie.
1	begoniabol	45 _41st
Meh, I didn't enjoy this movie, it was quite annoying too
1	pompousass	20 _44th
The Grand-Guignol Broadway musical (words and music by Sondheim), Tim Burtonized for Hollywood. Which means, among other things (such as less music), a ton-of-bricks production design, an ashen color scheme sometimes edging up to the border of black-and-white (excluding the rivers, lakes, geysers of rich red blood), and the de rigueur Depp, showing off a diffident singing voice, as a frightfully frigid avenger, chilling in quite the wrong way.
1	Beer94	59 _35th
Pleasing visuals and great acting, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. The thought a 'dark' musical was rather appealing, but it just didn't work for me. I think there were too many songs which spoiled the flow of the film and the gore scenes seemed a bit over the top.
1	Jgirl2688	100 _97th
Great acting, music, singing, all of the actors gave magnificent performances both acting and singing. A bit humorous, and a bit scary, it has the right combination of the two.
1	JordanDcFc	59 _20th
PLEASE. STOP. SINGING.
1	GordonBombay	40 _16th
You think you are going to see a thriller and then they start to sing, WTF!!!
1	aliceporto	14 _0th
Noooooo! The boredom, the cliché, the singing, it all makes me want to kill myself.
1	Lord Moe	45 _8th
I have a lot of problems with this movie...Although the story is, of course, great and the style is pretty cool, there are some things that just ruin it for me. Johnny Depp is simply a "passable" singer and was brooding about 99% of the time, Helena Bonham Carter was just there, Antony and Johanna were completely ruined, they cut out some really good songs, and Dark Comedy is really given a back seat. It just pales in comparison to the stage show.
1	Paxton	54 _26th
Any movie with a dark demented Johnny Depp going toe to toe with a dark and demented Alan Rickman is worth watching. But a musical that doesn't feature any good music is tough to bare.
1	Paraguay1001	63 _14th
Good God: the 'singing', make it stop!
1	philamental	80 _80th
With Burton's recent track record even a promising project outline can end in disaster. However here the deliciously (pun intended) dark source material is a perfect match for the director whose gothic imagery is his trademark. It's a musical ... something which a lot of the marketing seemed to deliberately avoid admitting ... which slows the pace down in places. However the songs frequently hit the mark and help serve up a unique flavour in Burton's filmography.
1	Corbad	70 _54th
A stylish and memorable musical. Layered and catchy songs and surprisingly nuanced characters (not that they're very nuanced, but that there is some nuance is the surprise) reward the viewer where abbreviated narrative fails to.

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