great movie

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2008)

This movie was great, I actually saw it in theatres, ordinarily I absolutely hate musicals, especially in movies since once it turns into a musical it's extremely misleading to the tone of the movie. I think that works for Sweeney Todd since whenever they start singing, it's in a horribly ironic way, i.e. we're going to kill everyone, the duet in "joanna" where the sailor is singing for heroics and depp's singing is directed towards revenge. The ending to the movie was very straightforward i felt, it showed exactly how blinded by rage Sweeney Todd was, his wife and daughter were quite literally in front of him the whole time and he didn't notice i.e. he didn't bother to look for them. Overall, i thought that this movie was an incredible interpretation of the play, though it's not for kids, too much blood.