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Sweeney Todd: Tim Burton
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This Sweeney Todd is all subtext and no substance. It starts off large and swaggering but doesn't know where to turn next: Burton seems fixated on serving up an event, to the extent that he neglects to dig into the story. [More]
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The truly enduring fright of this "Sweeney Todd" is the noise that comes out of his two stars whenever they open their mouths to sing. Burton was determined to cast actors who could conquer a tune rather than singers who could simulate a performance; the problem with a score as complex and nuanced as this is thatit depends for its dramatic and comic potency on vocal brio. When "Pretty Women" should soar, it sits; where "A Little Priest" should bubble, it blands out.
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Sweeney Todd features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Hugh Wheeler wrote the show's book. The film's screenplay has been penned by John Logan. Tim Burton, the long-time partner of Bonham Carter, directs.
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The notorious career of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, has been endlessly retold. But this is the first time the original tale has been reprinted since it was serialized in The People's Periodical in 1846-47.
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The problem with "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" is that it contains two competing movies. On the one hand, you have an interesting game of devil's advocate taking as its subject one of the most notorious, albeit fictional, serial killer characters in English literature, done in Tim Burton's inimitable fairy tale way. On the other hand, you have a Stephen Sondheim musical.
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The first thing to be said about Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd" is that it's quite faithful to Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical while being every inch a movie. The second is that it's bloody wonderful. Emphasize bloody. The title character has a few anger-management issues. Sweeney is a revenge-obsessed Victorian London serial killer who slits the throats of his victims as they sit in his barber chair. The bodies are then dumped in the cellar, ground up and served as meat pies in the shop of Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime.
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