Burton and Depp again prove to be a marvelous
Burton and Depp again prove to be a marvelous combination in this gory yet glorious adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical. When was the last time you winced and became misty-eyed in the same movie? Bloody good, a lusciously Grand Guignol excercise thats true to the composers original vision but spectacularly cinematic as well. Sweeney Todd DVD In Tobys story, even more than in Sweeney Todds, the film observes the evolution of vengeance as ethos, the ways it can come to look like justice, a means to escape living hells. A movie musical for people who dont like musicals, in the way that — for example — Kenneth Branaghs Frankenstein was a horror movie for people who dont like horror movies. … Burton and Depp put their stamp on Sweeney Todd, bringing the Demon Barber of Fleet Street to life for a whole new audience.