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Sweeney Fraud
Allison - wrote on 12/18/07
Aye, there never was a barber like Sweeney Todd...and thank goodness! From the very beginning the music was pretty much rubbish. And frizzy-haired wacko pale Helena Bonham Carter was quite the opposite of charming.
Except for the song "Joanna" the songs were terrible, and the lyrics were especially lacking. Johnny Depp referring to the blade as his "friend" was incredibly ridiculous. It got better towards the end though, and there was a standout performance by Alan Rickman.
Sascha Baron Cohen's role was awfully distracting in more ways than one (if you see the movie you'll know what I'm talking about). But great actors can't rely on gags. The whole audience was laughing at him. Which is fine. Okay, he's entertaining. But he will never be taken seriously. Thank goodness he wasn't in the movie for an extended amount of time.
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Delorted - wrote on 12/20/07 at 10:54 AM CT
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Review comment
I still don't understand exactly what you didn't like about the movie. I got that you didn't like the music (which, frankly, astounds me that anybody found find it as "rubbish" or "terrible") Maybe you should see the stage show. The songs in the movie are altered quite a bit from those in the show.
