Black and White and Red all over

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2008)

It's the story of some one lost in their grief and not able to engage in the world around them. It looks like Batman, with a dark comical twist, but with very little goodness on show.
The story feels quite thin, not many characters and no real travelling, it feels like it has come from the theatre and has the constrains of the medium, without the buzz of a real person in front of you. The other problem is that I do no think that the Sweeny Todd character changes much through the film, there is a sudden realisation at the end, but the shock of what that means and what he has done are not shown.
It looks like a Tim Burton film it is well dressed and well shot, but I think that people with poor eye sight will actually struggle to view parts of the story because it is so darkly shot.
Helena Bonham Carter is very watchable and gives the film a human strength.
It's HDTV not 35mm, which it should have been.