- Starring: Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp
- Summary: From the dark, gothic imagination of director Tim Burton comes Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a bloody tale of music, murder, melodrama, meat pies, and one man's desperate desire for revenge. (Paramount Pictures)
- Director: Tim Burton
- Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Horror, Musical
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 35 out of 39
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Mixed: 4 out of 39
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Negative: 0 out of 39
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100Helena Bonham Carter may be Burton's inamorata, but apart from that, she is perfectly cast, not as a vulgar fishwife type but as a petite beauty with dark, sad eyes and a pouting mouth and a persistent fantasy that she and the barber will someday settle by the seaside. Not bloody likely.
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100The result is one of the odder and, certainly the most compelling of the short stream of Broadway-to-Hollywood transplants of recent years. The interweaving of the music and the visuals casts an unusual, restive spell of delight and unease.
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What looks good on paper contracts doesn't guarantee results. Stylized but spasmodic, this "Sweeney" seems more interested in distancing than captivating an audience.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 131 out of 182
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Mixed: 21 out of 182
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Negative: 30 out of 182
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LarryR.4The singing is annoying; the songs are mediocre. If the actors would have just not sung, the movie might have been tolerable.
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RickyQ3
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