Saturday, January 19, 2008

Sweeney Todd

Due to a Thurday Night Midnight screening of Cloverfield to the public, I arrived to find out that Sweeney Todd wouldn't arrive at the theater until 4am.  Sweet.  So I left around 3am with no print to build up and came back at 8am to build it up and screen it before the first showing at 1pm. 
Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) returns from being out at sea to find his wife had been captured and forced to live a miserable life that is so horrible she poisons herself. 
Barker seeks revenge,(changing his name to Sweeney Todd as Barker is dead to him)  as he sings/talks musical style about how everyone deserves to and will die.  Well that's cool with me, let's get to the killing!  But alas there's some jobber love story that has to be thrown in to make me wait.
Todd meets up with a waitress who makes the worst meat pies in the city and above her restaruant is Todd/Barker's old barbershop.  He re-opens it and begins business again. 
Sooner or later they decide to use human bodies to put in the meat-pies since meat is so expensive these days don't you know.  Business picks up and people love the taste of humans.
The story goes from there as I won't ruin it for all you musical lover's out there.  So yes we, tinseltown, finally got Sweeney Todd so everyone is happy.
 On a side note, the film company that released the movie still never released more than 1,400 prints nationwide so that's a big reason as to why it wasn't playing in a lot of cities. 
I guarentee there wouldn't be this much hype around this movie if anyone other than Johnny Depp was in the starring role.  Sweeney Todd has the same accent as Jack Sparrow and wins the award for most consecutive scenes with the same expression on his face.
 Eleven Kills but suffering through a musical puts this one right at average.
5/10

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