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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) -- Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.

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John Logan (screenplay)
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Release Date:
21 December 2007 (USA) more
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Never Forget. Never Forgive. more
Plot:
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical. full summary | full synopsis
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Won Oscar. Another 20 wins & 31 nominations more
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Burton does better than anyone else . . . more (704 total)
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Sweeney Todd (USA) (short title)
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Rated R for graphic bloody violence.
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116 min
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Three "Harry Potter" series alumni appear in this version of "Sweeney Todd" - Helena Bonham Carter (Mrs. Lovett / Bellatrix Lestrange), Alan Rickman (Judge Turpin / Severus Snape), and Timothy Spall (Beadle / Peter Pettigrew). Additionally, Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays Anthony Hope, has been cast as Gellert Grindelwald in the final two "Harry Potter" films. more
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Continuity: When Toby is in the basement at the end, he takes a very small bite from the pie, then pulls a piece of finger out of his mouth far bigger than the bite he just took. In the following shot, the bite in the pie is shown much bigger, almost big enough for the piece of finger he pulled out of his mouth. more
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[first lines]
Anthony Hope: I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders, from the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru. But there's no place like London.
Sweeney Todd: No, there's no place like London.
Anthony Hope: [spoken] Mr. Todd?
Sweeney Todd: You are young. Life has been kind to you. You will learn.
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131 out of 198 people found the following comment useful.
Burton does better than anyone else . . ., 14 December 2007
Author: John DeSando (jdesando@columbus.rr.com) from Columbus, Ohio

"At last, my arm is complete again." Sweeney Todd as he admires one of his efficient razors after a long absence.

I'm not sure Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd is "grand," but I'm confident it's in the best Grand Guignol tradition of sensational stage horror given its name from that little theater in early 20th century Paris that specialized in sensationally ghoulish productions. I am also sure that no one in film is better able to play the titular butcher than the shape-shifting, ever-naughty Johnny Depp.

The opening song "No Place Like London" hints to Anglophiles like me that it won't be my usual tour of West End theaters, rather a seedy, dangerous place where Mac the Knife would be more at home. Throughout the musical, Steven Sondheim's lyrics expressively revel in the amoral, throat-slicing world that Sweeney and his adoring meatpie lady, Nellie Lovett (Helena Bonham-Carter), wallow in as he prepares to take revenge on the equally amoral Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who dispatched Todd to prison early on to get his beautiful young wife. Hence Sweeney's revenge inclination.

Sweeney's lyric best expresses the wildly murderous world, hardly the usual province of musicals: "Alright! You, Sir?/No one's in the chair come on, come on/Sweeney's waiting/I want you bleeders./You sir! Too sir?/Welcome to the grave./I will have vengeance./I will have salvation . . . ." Yes, it's Sleepy-Hollow, Corpse-Bride Tim Burton's movie with blood spouting like red paint from a pressure gun contrasting the somber, almost black and white underside of London. When one of the children bites into a pie with a finger in it (shades of our contemporary law suits!), the audience doesn't even gasp, given the omnipresence of bloody bodies.

There is no more interesting musical this year, even considering the enchanting Once. In the end, it is unsettling, unsavory, and unusual. Burton does better than anyone else in juxtaposing horror with innocence.

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