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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
19 May 1987, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, UK
June 9, 1980 in Harlow, Essex, England, UK
4 April 1957, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
13 October 1971, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
January 02, 2015
This dark operatic movie looks like Burton meant every bit of it, that he shared this story's longing for death and night and blood.
July 14, 2011
This magnificently realized musical from Stephen Sondheim contains the right blend of emotional pathos, stunning visuals and accessible songs.
May 22, 2008
It's as if Burton was born to direct it.
October 05, 2010
Looks incredible, like a moving painting, but it's absolutely mediocre...
April 28, 2016
Revenge stories don't get a pass just because they are about revenge. If there is a genuine meaning to the legend of Benjamin Barker and what he must go through, poor Tim Burton is no closer to understanding it than his predecessors were.
May 27, 2011
It's gross but will it gross? Burton and Depp's cannibal musical is an especially acquired taste - Oliver! reimagined by Eli Roth. Brave, brutal... ballads?
October 18, 2008
A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia.
September 30, 2014
Sweeney Todd is maybe a bit too Grand for its own good. It's all danse, no macabre.
January 29, 2008
Scissorhands was bright with eye-popping pastels that took on a sordid sheen; Sweeney has no such subtext: it's black, black, and gray, except when the screen floods blood red
October 18, 2008
As unsettling as it is riveting. Even Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered.
November 17, 2011
This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.
October 18, 2008
The movie may substitute Grand Guignol for laughs at times, but it's spectacularly stylized -- each throat-slashing exceptional -- persuasively sung, and imaginatively adapted for the screen.