Sweeney Todd
December 21, 2007
Rated: Runtime: 117 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREETÂ is Tim Burton’s movie version of the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical, which in turn is based on a 1973 play by Christopher Bond, which in turn was inspired by various fictional tales from the mid-1800s. For the record, it isn’t based on any real historical figure.
The only thing I knew about the musical was from the underrated Kevin Smith movie JERSEY GIRL, where the little girl does a number from SWEENEY TODD for her school’s talent show, when all the other little girls are doing numbers from CATS.
In this movie version, Johnny Depp plays Sweeney Todd, a barber turned serial killer who cuts throats with a straight razor, then his landlady Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) bakes the victims into meat pies.
Well, if that’s not enough to make you burst into song, what is?
Alan Rickman plays the judge who inspires Sweeney Todd to seek revenge for what was done to his wife and daughter.
Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) is hilarious as a rival barber.
There’s some uncredited cameos. Anthony Stewart Head from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER is in there if you look fast.
This is a weird, bloody musical, and it’s not a romp like, for example, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. It’s darkly funny, but grim, and bloody, bloody, bloody.
The musical works, although it walks a fine line above ridiculous with its geysers of blood.
I’m reminded of SPINAL TAP’s rock opera about Jack the Ripper:
“You’re a naughty one, Saucy Jack/
Saucy Jack, you’re a haughty one.”
This is Tim Burton’s third macabre musical, but the other two were stop-animated (THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and THE CORPSE BRIDE).
It comes off like a Charles Dickens novel meets a Grindhouse movie turned into a musical.
And that just makes me want…to…sing!
Seen it? How many stars do you give it?
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
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And here’s a trailer for SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET.
It’s funny that Kevin Smith had to introduce us to the play at all, eh? I’d never heard of it before seeing Jersey Girl (which I also liked enough to watch more than once) and when I saw the ads that it was coming I was hoping it wouldn’t be a musical. sigh. Denied.
So much wonderful material to work with here. I just hate musicals, can’t help it…. it’s the redneck in me.
For anyone interested, here’s the sequence in the Kevin Smith movie JERSEY GIRL with the little girl’s school talent show number from SWEENEY TODD.
The “Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pies” song (”God, that’s good!”), with Liv Tyler as Toby the street urchin, the little girl (Raquel Castro) in the Helena Bonham Carter/Angela Lansbury Mrs. Lovett role, Ben Affleck as Sweeney Todd. And George Carlin as the guy who gets his throat slit! YouTube video.
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