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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
description written by member Zara:
The story of "Sweeney Todd" is of a wrongfully imprisoned barber in Victorian England who sets out to seek revenge on the judge who imprisoned him. The plot is foreshadowed in the first lines of the opening number: "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd./His skin was pale and his eye was odd./He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard of again."
| Release Date: | December 21st, 2007 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Movie Review by Matthew  (1/2/2008) |
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I know a lot of people have difficulty with musicals. It is hard to sit and watch a story and have the characters spontaneously burst out into song. I enjoy them; good musicals serve to transport me and I suspend belief and go with the flow, accepting and expecting the characters to begin bursting into song at any minute....
(complete Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review by Matthew)
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Movie Review by BillyBob (4/2/2009) |
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no. no. No. No. NO. NO!
I find that whenever it comes to the likes of Director TIM BURTON and all of his many 'Dark Visions' (which are always realized with such outrageous extravagance on film) that these offerings either excel as big, wonderful 'Hits', or else they flop, as terrible, miscalculated 'Misses'. There never...
(complete Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review by BillyBob)
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Movie Review by brian (12/10/2008) |
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This may be a bold statement but I believe that Burton may have crafted his best since Ed Wood when he made Sweeney Todd. Believe me when I say those were pretty big shoes to fill but The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is just a fantastic work of art from beginning to finish. Taking his cure from the ghastly legend of...
(complete Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review by brian)
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Movie Review by Becca (4/13/2008) |
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i had been dying to see this movie since i fist heard that it was coming out. tim burton and johnny depp are perfectly suited to work together, and they are so in sync with each other because they have been working together almost 20 years. johnny depp is an amazing singer also, which was a big surprise. this movie was...
(complete Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review by Becca)
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Movie Review by T (2/7/2008) |
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Some day, Tim Burton will have Johnny Depp in a movie where he's not reprising the Edward Scissorshands look, and I will probably faint from shock.
The movie itself wasn't bad, the singing was tolerable, but I dislike what they did with several key characters. I found myself longing for the Angela Lansbury version, and...
(complete Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street review by T)
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