My favorite Musical next to Hairspray!!

Rating: 9/10 (19 February 2008)

I am not a fan of musicals at all. But this is the best musical ever and a great movie on its own too. Sweeney Todd is a dark, intense and demented movie. So many things make this great and we get to see Johnny Depp sing. Thats one of the reasons to see this.
Don't worry. The songs are actually good. Many of them are very catchy and Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and all the other actors sang them very nicely. One problem, the same songs are repeated several times throughout the movie.
The environments and the atmosphere are amazing. Tim Burton brings a eerie and disturbing feeling to fleet street. Its a street that looks like a place that no one would want to be in. Basically there is no color at all. The whole movie is very pale and there are very light tinges of color. Like blood.
Tim Burton is the only director that could have pulled this off. It is just his style. The dark and different movies. Also if you think that Sweeney Todd is just like Edward Scissorhands(like my brother thinks). Its not like it at all. The two characters have no relations at all.
Do not let the kids see this. It is very bloody and even if it didn't have the blood and guts it is still not one for the kids.
I highly recommend this. Even if you don't like musicals you may still like it. I started watching expecting a terrible musical with a terrible story and terrible songs. But i finished watching it and i was very surprised. It is a classic.
9/10