"How about a shave?"

Rating: 9/10 (13 April 2008)

Tim Burton has done it again! Sweeney Todd is brutal and filled with dark humor and great acting. Johnny Depp is on fire! Benjamin Barker (fantastic Johnny Depp) was thrown to the jail because he had something that another one desired. Now he is back and full of vengeance. Together with Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) Sweeney Todd plans a horrendous plot to have his revenge on Judge Turpin (brilliant Alan Rickman). Are you brave enough to sit to the chair of our lust-for-blood barber? The music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim are exquisite. Combined with Burtons imaginative world and great story-telling the movie is one of the enjoyable musical there is. Burton draws beautiful, horror-romantic pictures that will not leave the audience cold. The songs like "Johanna", "Pretty Women" and "By the Sea" makes you want to sing along with Sweeney and others. Particularly "Johanna" is very beautiful and touching ballad performed by pretty Jamie Campbell Bower. Great performances are the key. In addition of Johnny Depp Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman shines through this dark and dreary movie. Timothy Spall is Beadle, a sleazy little accomplish of Judge Turpin. The appearance of Sacha Baron Cohen is delightful and funny!
Costume design is the handwriting of Colleen Atwood. Costumes play an important part in the film. Atwood shapes the spirit of Burton and has created very working and variable combination.
Sweeney Todd is morbid and macabre but still you can find a little sympathy for our murderer. Burton knows that if you can't be together alive you can be together in death. Surprisingly comforting and beautiful thought.