Review: Sweeney Todd

As I’ve said many of times before I am a Huge Tim Burton fan. I have seen just about everything he has done, and can honestly say have loved them all (maybe with the exception of Planet of the Apes, which was just ok). Over the years Burton has amassed a very stellar resume of work, spanning many different genres of film with the exception of the Musical (not counting Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, which is not purely a musical though it does have musical numbers in it). For his first foray into making a filmed musical Burton turned to one of his all-time favorites: Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award Winning Broadway Musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Now I will be the first to admit I’ve never been a fan of musicals, in fact my first exposure to this particular story was in Kevin Smith’s Jersey Girl. But once I heard Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were doing a movie version, it went right on my must see list, even making it into the number two spot on my top 10 of 2007. Well now its spring time, and all those films that were out last fall are making their way on to DVD and with a April 1st street date, Paramount Studios has kindly sent a copy of one of my favorite films of 2007 for an advanced review.

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