Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Name: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Musical
Released: December 21, 2007
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp

2007

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DreamWorks SKG | Release Date: December 21, 2007 | R

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

Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min

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David Ansen

Depp is such a soulful presence he gives you a glimpse of this maniac's pain and pathos. Bonham Carter is extraordinary. She reinvents Mrs. Lovett from the inside out. Read full review

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Roger Ebert

Helena 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. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages. Read full review

Maitland McDonagh

Tim Burton's grand guignol fantasy transforms Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical-theater piece into a cheerfully gothic morality tale. Read full review

Shawn Levy

They've made a movie-movie of Sweeney Todd, and if you've got the stomach and ear for it, you'll be grateful. Read full review

Carina Chocano

It's not entirely surprising that Burton's Sweeney Todd feels heavier on style than on substance -- so much that the style almost subverts the story. Still, it's a gorgeous artifact and pretty enjoyable in all. Read full review

Josh Rosenblatt

Burton's gorgeously grim film (his sixth with Depp) is loyal to Sondheim's original, both in spirit and structure; it's dark and gothic and drenched in blood, and it forgoes excessive dialogue in the name of getting quickly to the next murky, malevolent, yet strangely forgettable tune. Read full review

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ArmondW.

Dec 30, 2007

This isn

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Ayrin

Jun 7, 2020

Sinister, crazy, and wild are three words I'd use to describe one of Tim Burton's greatest movies. I absolutely adore this movie and I have watched it time and time again. Helen Boham Carter, Johnny Depp, and Alan Rickman are brilliant. The darkness to the movie, the songs, all in all theSinister, crazy, and wild are three words I'd use to describe one of Tim Burton's greatest movies. I absolutely adore this movie and I have watched it time and time again. Helen Boham Carter, Johnny Depp, and Alan Rickman are brilliant. The darkness to the movie, the songs, all in all the whole movie is remarkable.… Expand

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ErinB.

Jun 4, 2008

It's official! There is absolutely nothing Johnny Depp can't do! Twisted in a beautiful way!

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DavidH.

Dec 22, 2007

I am about as die-hard a Sweeney Todd fan as it gets, and I couldn't get enough. Sondheim laid the ground work with his incomparable score and the rest followed suit. As far as movie musicals, this worked, in the fashion that Chicago worked. Well done.

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Compi24

Jul 24, 2015

It's far from wholesome or approachable, but it's hard to deny the imaginative gears hard at work in this thrilling adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical.

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JoeU.

Feb 18, 2008

I should start my review by saying that I have seen all Sondheim musicals on stage without exception, and I have never been a big fan of his. I know this is not the accepted opinion among the self-appointed intelligentsia elites, especially in NYC, but it is an opinion shared by many. Just I should start my review by saying that I have seen all Sondheim musicals on stage without exception, and I have never been a big fan of his. I know this is not the accepted opinion among the self-appointed intelligentsia elites, especially in NYC, but it is an opinion shared by many. Just count the ticket receipts from many of his plays, especially his latest ones, worldwide. Having said that, this is a movie, not a stage musical, but it is still a musical, which happens to be a movie. And I still didn't like it. I didn't like the musical part, I didn't care for the production values, and I didn't care for the blood and gore, that I can see anytime by watching any movie in the Chainsaw Massacre film series. I did like H.Bonham carter, despite all, but little else. I get the sense that many, especially critics, prefer not to criticize anything that comes from Sondheim, instead of voicing their truer, and more intimate opinions, from fear, rather than from their integrity.… Expand

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PeterC.

Dec 20, 2007

Depp cannot have any spirit until he shows us that he has one, don't anyone let us get past these high reviews, Depp is as much of a dull name as Johnny. John Depp, the perfect name for a bore, as Tim Burton's skill proceeds to be very dark and bloodily violent, all we get to see Depp cannot have any spirit until he shows us that he has one, don't anyone let us get past these high reviews, Depp is as much of a dull name as Johnny. John Depp, the perfect name for a bore, as Tim Burton's skill proceeds to be very dark and bloodily violent, all we get to see the actor's place their off-beat singing voices that toon off the strength of the song. There is no magic in this thats for sure, no pressence of taste, and nothing but quirky unexcellency. They should have gotten rid of the dead bodies, because they are stinking up the theatre.… Expand

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