The best work Tim Burton has ever done... beautiful.

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2010)

Visual director Tim Burton has been around ever since the 80's. He's directed masterpieces such as Sleepy hollow, Beetlejuice, and Ed Wood. I never thought that Burton could outdo himself after I saw Sleepy hollow.But sure enough he did.
Back in 2007, I went to see Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon barber of Fleet street, a film so funny, so beautiful, so powerful, so enjoyable, that I knew Burton could never live up to it. The weird thing is... I don't like musicals. But Sweeney Todd is one of the greatest movies ever made, I think.
Johnny Depp is magical as Benjamin Barker, a barber who is arrested for no reason by the evil Judge Turpin(portrayed brilliantly by Alan Rickman) so then he can get closer to Barker's wife. 15 years later, Barker breaks out and changes his name to Sweeney Todd, and rekicks his old business. He forms an alliance with Mrs. Lovett(also played brilliantly by Helena Bonham Carter), who makes terrible pies.
Meanwhile, Turpin has adopted Todd's daughter, Joanna. And Anthony, a sailor, is going to rescue her. Also, Todd slits people's throats in preperation before he meets the judge again, so then he can get his revenge.
I have seen Sweeney Todd so many times. For some sick reason, every time I watch this film, a huge grin comes onto my face. I love this movie so much. It's strangely beautiful, and beautifully strange. The film is darkly funny, and extremely entertaining.
The acting here is another marvel. The film is also a marvel to look at. Every time I watch it I sing along. This is Tim Burton's masterpiece. IThis is the best film of 2007, and one of my favorite films of the decade. It's marvelous. I love a lot of Burton's work, but he may never live up to Sweeney Todd. Sweeney Todd is unforgettable. As sick of a movie it may be, it will always stay in my heart forever. From beginning to it's beautiful end, Sweeney Todd:The demon barber of Fleet street is pure genius.
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