When i found out that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were doing another colaboration i didn't even need to know anything else about it, i knew it would be something special. Yet i found myself feeling slightly dissapointed at the end of the movie.
The acting was fantastic from a brilliant cast Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin and Timothy Spall as Beadle. However it is not the acting that was in question. I have seen other Tim Burton musicals, Nightmare Before Christmas the more popular which most people know, and in comparisson to this Sweeney Todd's songs were very repetitive.
Yet songs aside, the interpretation of Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street brings me to the conclusion that there could bot have been a more perfect person to direct this movie, Tim Burtons twisted imagination is the essence of this movie, with a Sleepy Hollow like effect with the blood and gore, more is better.
This is another reason why the creative partnership between Depp and Burton works so well. This recieved 3 stars from me, even though the acting and directing was first rate, it could not make up for the fact that the songs were deffinetly lacking.
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Music / Performing Arts, Comedy - Director: Trevor Nunn, Geoffrey Posner - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, Parental Guidance - Starring: Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood, Jim Broadbent
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Jan 27th, 2009
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