Swen De La Todd- The Jess view

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2008)

Alas, my eyes could finally devour the long awaited Burton adaptation of 'Sweeney Todd'. People all around me were falsely excited ("yay- Jack Sparrow"! pfffft), but the aspect that I could not wait to sink my teeth into (excuse the constant use of facial metaphors) was Burton's unfaltering artistic cinematography. My expectations did not fall short; there is not a second of film that is not an artistic compositional masterpiece in its own right.
Being an ex-Johnny Depp fanatic, and presently a mere fan of his acting (save for Pirates 2 where it got just a little bit tedious), I felt that Johnny gave a great performance (especially in Mrs Lovett's imagination(the beach scene!)) and his singing was miles better than I predicted. In fact, I loved all of the acting- thanks to Atwood for once again casting Burton a great crew of actors. Timothy Spall was especially creepy, and worked well with Rickman's judge Turpin (although it was not under-appreciated that neither characters partook in many of the numbers).
Burtonic characters rock.