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ReemiDepp	Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	Lead	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/28/07 11:49:30) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None 5. "Sweeney Todd" Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton team up for a bloody amazing, and amazingly bloody, big-screen adaptation of the macabre musical. Go see it ... or else. blog.nola.com/mikescott/2..._2007.html ---------------------------------------- 2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Its a musical about a barber who kills people and his landlady who cooks the corpses into meat pies. In a list filled with violent films, this is one of the goriest, as this tale of personal revenge is elevated to epic proportions by Johnny Depps brooding turn as Todd, Tim Burtons gothic direction and Stephen Sondheims operatic music and lyrics. www.waltontribune.com/sto...6682034be5 ----------------------------------------- 4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (December, now playing) -- They sing, they slash and they serve up a bloody good time. Tim Burton works again with everything he loves: the Gothic, the fantastical, the gory and the Johnny Depp. The result is a darkly gorgeous singalong about revenge, mass murder and meat pies. Shave and a haircut, anyone? www.modbee.com/scene/story/163750.html --------------------------------------------- 9. Sweeney Todd It's a bloody musical! Literally. Director Tim Burton and frequent collaborator Johnny Depp team up with Helena Bonham Carter to bring Stephen Sondheim's dark, violent musical about revenge in 19th-century London to impressive movie-screen life. Depp, as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, does wonders with the songs and Burton stylizes the blood-spurting vengeance. Any way you slice it, it's to die for. www.allheadlinenews.com/a...7009559020 --------------------------------------------------7. 'Sweeney Todd' If you love sung-through Broadway musicals and if you love what happens when Tim Burton and Johnny Depp come together, this is a gory treat for you. It was for me. hub.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll...4/1104/HUB --------------------------------------------------
ReemiDepp	Re: Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	#1	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/29/07 05:47:04) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	6. ''Sweeney Todd'': In his best film since ''Edward Scissorhands,'' Tim Burton locates the beating heart of Stephen Sondheim's twisted musical. As the title character -- a revenge-obsessed barber who will stop at nothing to slice and dice his enemies -- Johnny Depp is soulful, tortured and in fine voice. By the time double-edged songs like ''Not While I'm Around'' and ''Pretty Women'' kick in, ''Todd's'' got you by the throat and won't let go. www.mcall.com/entertainme...0899.story
ReemiDepp	Re: Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	#2	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/29/07 05:53:58) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	2. Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp in the big screen version of Steven Sondheim's Tony award-winning musical, is the best film ever directed by Tim Burton. A thrilling piece of film-making that just about jumps off the screen. www.kvue.com/sharedconten...8f894.html ----------------------------------------------- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street First things first: I hate musicals. Sweeney Todd opens with a cheeseball number from a twitty sailor excited to land Londons port of dreams, singing operatically about finding love and success (yack). But no sooner does he hit his high note than Johnny Depps Sweeney begins to rain on his parade, singing with bitter angst about London as a @#%$-filled pit of despair. From that moment, Tim Burtons macabre musical adaptation of the Steven Sondheim musical spirals with malevolent insanity. Burton hones his trademark gothic style with a precision to top his previous works, offering a film almost void of color save the arterial sprays of victims necks. His bleak London is a wasteland of depravity and corruption, and Burton turns the city into a character all its own. He also pulls phenomenal performances from Alan Rickman, Sascha Baron Coen, Timothy Spall, Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Like any musical, it has its eye-rolling moments (particularly the subplot involving the aforementioned twitty sailors love of Sweeneys daughter). But the cheese serves to offset musical numbers involving montages of hacked-throats and cannibalism. Sweeney Todd is an exercise in gleeful lunacya revenge musical drenched in blood, a heartbreaking tragedy and a hilarious dark comedy. wweek.com/wwire/?p=10358 -----------------------------------
ReemiDepp	Re: Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	#3	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/29/07 19:59:58) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street": Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton had their greatest triumph yet with this adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim quasi-opera. www.stltoday.com/stltoday...enDocument
ReemiDepp	Re: Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	#4	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/30/07 05:56:04) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	5. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Another collaboration between director Tim Burton and star Johnny Depp brings Stephen Sondheim's musical masterpiece to the big screen. www.jconline.com/apps/pbc.../712300318 2. Sweeney Todd lfpress.ca/newsstand/Toda...3-sun.html "Sweeney ToddJohnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and director Tim Burton. Enough said. showbizandstyle.inquirer....st_of_2007
ReemiDepp	Re: Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	#5	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/31/07 15:37:47) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	3. "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" -- Sure, another notable film this year claims that "there will be blood," but it has nothing on "Sweeney Todd" -- the best-directed movie of the year by genius filmmaker Tim Burton which features an eclectic cast, Burton's trademark dark atmosphere and his sense of visual wonder. Adapted from famed composer Stephen Sondheim's classic Broadway musical, "Sweeney Todd" tells the wicked tale of a barber (Johnny Depp) who seeks revenge on a London judge (Alan Rickman) after the corrupt official unjustly sends him to prison for 15 years and destroys his family in the process. There's no doubt "Sweeney Todd" is an acquired taste -- but if you can stomach the gallons of bloodshed and Todd's victims' fates as the main ingredients of meat pies by a equally-sinister pie maker (Helena Bonham Carter), then you're bound to enjoy what is undoubtedly the most original film of the year. Topping the film off is a spate of spectacular singing performances -- which is amplified by the fact that Depp, Bonham Carter and Rickman had scant singing experience before the film. All told, "Sweeney Todd" is bloody brilliant. www.wbaltv.com/entertainm...etail.html
ReemiDepp	Re: Sweeney Todd - among best 10 movies 2007	#6	[-]
Posts: 6468 (12/31/07 15:38:46) Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	8. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tim Burton and Johnny Depp finally hit the mark again in one of the most visually stunning films of the year. The music and dialogue is wonderful, but the real credit goes to Burton who masterfully balances the fantastical world that is inhabited by real characters with real feelings, motivations and desires. www.playbackstl.com/conte.../7040/299/

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