Despite my general dislike of Tim Burton movies, I enjoyed it a great deal. The "Pretty Women" duet featuring Rickman and Depp was worth the $10.25 price of admission all by itself, simply because they looked like they were having such a tremendous amount of fun doing it. And OK, bestubbled Rickman lying back in a barber's chair is just really hot, and also funny, because I can just imagine him thinking "Thank Ghu I'm out of that dreadful stuffy Snape costume for once!"
Stef's capsule review of Sweeney Todd: "I was surprised there was no credit for 'Blood Choreographer.'"
Stef's capsule review of Sweeney Todd: "I was surprised there was no credit for 'Blood Choreographer.'"
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Neither Depp nor Bonham Carter can sing, but, from what I hear, they do an adequate job, and this is not about virtuoso singing.
I do not understand the lockstep condemnation of Helena B-C - since "Fight Club", I have always really liked her. She was quite good in one of the Harry Potter movies, too. And I think she's hot.
I have never been able to distinguish the details of this movie/play, neither of which I have seen, from those of Little Shop of Horrors, which I have also not seen. Both are about professionals whose jobs involve standing over a client who sits in a chair, who then do bad things to them, and then break into song about it. :) I can never remember whether Sweeney Todd is a barber or a dentist. I can never remember which one has the giant flesh-eating plant in the basement, and which one involves meat pies made out of serial-killer victims. And I hope never to know either of them well enough to find out.
For what it's worth, the blood is incredibly fake looking. There could also have been a credit for "Propsmaster in Charge of Red Paint and Cherry Kool-Aid," really.