Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have worked practically every genre in their five collaborations, but Sweeney Todd represents a musical first. Based on the Stephen Sondheim play, the dark comedy centers around a barber and a baker who take a side job in the business of murder. An inspired career choice according to The Hollywood Reporter. "The show couldn't have fallen into better hands," argues Kirk Honeycutt. "With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages."
"No matter how much product I put in it, my hair is still poofy!"
Movie City News's David Poland,
a big fan of the musical, confirms the movie should please newcomers and Sondheim fans alike: "The music is so magnificent."
And Variety agrees the transition from stage to screen is a smooth one. "This represents one happy instance of a film made by a director without stage experience that genuinely serves the intentions of the original piece,"
writes Todd McCarthy, "Strictly in film terms, Sweeney is seamless,
coherent and vibrant, with scarcely a trace of 'Broadway.'"
Along with Depp and Bonham-Carter, the film co-stars Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street opens
wide on December 21st.
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on Dec 07 2007 05:57 PM Doesn't surprise me one bit. Can't wait for it. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 07 2007 06:19 PM I remember when 300 had a 100% tomatometer. First five reviews. Same situation here. I'd hate to see Sweeny follow 300's trajectory. (Although I quite loved 300) (Reply to this) |
![]() on Dec 07 2007 07:13 PM Slow news day. God, what's next? "After five intial reviews by two movie websites, a newspaper in Maine, and the Larry King-esque Hollywood Reporter and Variety, SPEED RACER currently has 100 percent!" I will be more excited when I see 50 reviews and Sweeney is sitting at 98 or something. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 07 2007 08:31 PM i will be more excited when I see you shut your face! na, i am really looking forward to this one. (Reply to this) |
![]() on Dec 07 2007 09:42 PM It's at least worth noting that the first few reviews/reactions are so strong, no? (Reply to this) |
![]() on Dec 07 2007 09:48 PM hey anything with the lovely helena bonham-carter in it i will see it. ya know, Tim burton has it great when he has his fav actor/ buddy johhny depp and i think real life love/ fav actress in nearly every movie he does now. its clear that as long as he has one or both of them in each of his movies burton will keep making great films. so i wonder, how good burton could have made those batman if he had his muses in the two movies. yep, depp as reporter alex knox in batman would have made that movie a whole better;) but hey seeing helena in skin tight leather and slighty crazed would be sexy and heck i rather have her be bruce's galpal in batman than now known crazy lady kim bassinger:) (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 07 2007 11:10 PM You couldn't pay me to watch crap like this! (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 12:25 AM I don't expect you to be paid, but rather pay yourself. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 01:37 AM All I'm saying is that Johnny Depp better get his Oscar this time around, that's all I'm saying. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 03:10 AM Crap like this? Exactly what kind of movie is it that you watch? This movie looks great. Saying "I can't wait", is a vast understatement. Good month for movies. Juno, Atonement, I Am Legend, and the best for last. Now lets pay these writers so that we don't get robbed of more good movie months, yes? peace. love. empathy. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 03:12 AM Johnny Depp, Helen Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen all having fun with Tim Burton. Sounds like rare movie magic to me. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 07:36 AM i have been raving about how good this movie is going to be for a while now...looks like its going to be confirmed citically as well too. i really do hope that this movie gets burton a academy, a guy of his stature and absolute uniqueness in the way he approaches a movie (planet of the apes not including) deserves to win a best director nod (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 07:37 AM i have been raving about how good this movie is going to be for a while now...looks like its going to be confirmed citically as well too. i really do hope that this movie gets burton a academy, a guy of his stature and absolute uniqueness in the way he approaches a movie (planet of the apes not including) deserves to win a best director nod (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 11:51 AM Anyone who knows anything about Tim Burton films knows this will be great. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 11:52 AM Tim burton just got the National Board of Review Award for Best Director. I'd say the movie's gonna be fantastic. (Reply to this) |
![]() on Dec 08 2007 12:44 PM I'm seeing this on Tuesday and I can't wait! I'll admit to being skeptical when I first heard this was being made into a movie, despite my love for Depp and Burton. Musicals don't always adapt well to film and Sondheim writes difficult music; plus a movie about a singing, throat-slashing barber? How well was that going to sell? I'm pleased that so far there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to complain about and that the studio didn't try and tone it down to get a PG-13 rating. (Reply to this) |
![]() on Dec 08 2007 01:31 PM RT what are you posting these days "Tim Burton may be know his way around fake blood and Johnny Depp is one hell of an actor..." i am confident because of the 100% t-meter and because Burton may be know his way around fake blood. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 08 2007 07:36 PM The best movies of this year will be 'No country for old men','Sweeney Todd'and There will be blood' (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 09 2007 06:11 AM It's all a corporate politics as to why this at 100% Microsoft wants you think that. (Reply to this) |
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on Dec 09 2007 07:16 AM I remember when The Hills Have Eyes started at 100%....... (Reply to this) |
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