Not my favorite

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2008)

I just went to see Sweeny Todd ... and I have to say that it was ... um ... well, not my favorite movie, let's put it that way. In retrospect, I was glad I saw it in the theater, because going to the theater is a whole lot less expensive than buying the movie, which, I can guarantee you, I will not. It was, though, interesting to actually hear Johnny Depp sing. I knew that he was in several bands, but I had never heard him actually sing. But, singing aside, I was not impressed with the movie. The only way I can think to describe the overall plot was The Count of Monte Cristo meets Othello, but, even though I like both, putting them together (and, in fact, taking the wost of both and exaggerating it) was, I thought, not much of a success. I was just a little weirded out by it ... and in truth I was amazed that the plot was so highly twisted - it's the story of a man who, in a search for revenge for the rape and subsequent death of his wife, ends up killing her (the wife), and very narrowly escapes from killing his daughter, and, in a final act of irony was killed with the same blade that he used to kill others. That brigs me to another sticking point I had with the movie - I also didn't care too much for the blood and gore, of which there was a lot. It would have been better if they had suggested rather than actually showed people's throats being slit. Granted, the blood had a fake quality about it, but there was so much of it. Too much, in my opinion. Also I was grossed out by the cannibalism - I mean the whole idea of meat pies just grosses me out in the first place, but making the meat people meat? Yuck! And as if the meat that she keeps in the bowl isn't bad enough, they have to ... ugh! ... and the meat grinder ... not to mention the meat coming out of it ... I think I'll become vegetarian now, thank you very much.