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- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Summary From the dark, gothic imagination of director Tim Burton comes Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a bloody tale of music, murder, melodrama, meat pies, and one man's desperate desire for revenge. (Paramount Pictures)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: John Logan, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond
- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
- 2007
- R
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 56 m
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
7.8
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Summary From the dark, gothic imagination of director Tim Burton comes Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a bloody tale of music, murder, melodrama, meat pies, and one man's desperate desire for revenge. (Paramount Pictures)
Directed By: Tim Burton
Written By: John Logan, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 39 Critic Reviews
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90% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
10% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 39 Critic Reviews
83
90% Positive
35 Reviews
35 Reviews
10% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A final word for those of you who just don't care for musicals: The movie's true lyricism is less in its score than in its visual and emotional palette, and in watching Depp rise to the majesty of madness. So give Sweeney Todd a try. Even Victor, when he finally saw it, agreed: it's bloody great.
Depp is such a soulful presence he gives you a glimpse of this maniac's pain and pathos. Bonham Carter is extraordinary. She reinvents Mrs. Lovett from the inside out.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 400 User Ratings
7.8
82% Positive
329 Ratings
329 Ratings
14% Mixed
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
4% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 400 User Ratings
7.8
82% Positive
329 Ratings
329 Ratings
14% Mixed
55 Ratings
55 Ratings
4% Negative
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
Sweeney Todd The Devon Barber of Fleet Street: When Tim Burton’s on the project you know it’s going to be good. Yeah this is one of the horror movies that is honestly a masterpiece I don’t know why I love it so much from the way it’s shot holy god. The cinematography is out of this world magnificent it feels like it came straight out of the 1800s from the dark way it was shot everyone is so grey and white, frankly that’s really the only consistent colors you see besides one scene with Ms Lovett and all the blood sprays. The kills are out of this world great too sure they are mostly throat slits but the music that is accompanying the kills works so well. I watched this because I was doing a musical and I wanted to practice my voice so I watched this and i never got to practice because the music was so great almost every song it a great song after the other. The cast too my god of course since it’s Tim Burton Johnny Depp is in the movie and I heard so many people complain about his singing but I find it really enjoyable to hear, Helena Bonham Carter is also very good her songs are a great listen. But I have to mention the late great Alan Rickman and he and Depp have some duets together and they are some of the best songs of the whole movie, the rest of the cast is great too but they are the main ones that really stick out. I can’t give this movie enough praise watch it it’s on Netflix.
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Tim Burton's grand guignol fantasy transforms Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical-theater piece into a cheerfully gothic morality tale.
This Sweeney is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending as it flies on the wings of Sondheim's most thunderously exciting score.
Burton's overall restraint is a welcome surprise. Shorn of his usual camp trappings, the director evokes a sadness beneath every uneasy smile he draws from the audience.
The whole work drips with a camp savagery (hence the presence of Sacha Baron Cohen as Pirelli, a rival barber and faux-Italianate fop), which in turn relies on the conviction that death itself, like sexual desire, exists to be sniffed at and chuckled over.
Burton's gorgeously grim film (his sixth with Depp) is loyal to Sondheim's original, both in spirit and structure; it's dark and gothic and drenched in blood, and it forgoes excessive dialogue in the name of getting quickly to the next murky, malevolent, yet strangely forgettable tune.
one of my favorite movies of all time, made by one of my favorite directors, starring my favorite actor.
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PROS: impressive visuals and great music; compelling acting and singing, particularly from Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter; beautifully dark, vengeful and entertaining film to watch until Sweeney starts killing random people. CONS: Sweeney kills random people just because he's angry with the world and Mrs. Lovett needs meat to make her pies; gratuitous gruesome violence; tragically bloody bad ending, in more ways than one.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This movie was a cornerstone in film for me. Not because it was good, but because it shown me that both Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were one trick ponies. Depp especially. He cannot survive as an actor without some strange, quirky character. Burton seems to be making the same movie over and over. I don't know how either still get work.
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It was dreadful, to be honest. None of the leads can sing and the music is horribly repetitive while still being forgettable. I would no doubt rank it higher if it had actual decent singers (as I know the musical has its fans) but this rendition just made me dislike the musical as a whole. You don't forgo talent to hire your friends if you want artistic integrity and this film is a prime example why.
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Production Company Dreamworks Pictures, Warner Bros., Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation, The Zanuck Company, Dombey Street Productions, Tim Burton Productions
Release Date Dec 21, 2007
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating R
Tagline Never Forget. Never Forgive.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 1 Win & 9 Nominations
