Release Date:
04/01/2008
The Skinny: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton team up again for a gothy musical about an old-timey barber who kills dirty, jerky Brits.
Reminded Us Of Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, actual hell
The Good: The parts where they weren't singing and were just slashing throats and mutilating bodies were OK. Every time they started to sing, we pretty much tuned it out. (Horrible pun intended.)
The Bad: No matter how much blood is splattered, it's still a musical. And musicals suck.
Why do musicals suck? Instead of a character just saying what they think, they have to sing it, which takes so much longer. If they cut out the songs and just said what they're thinking, they could cut down on the movie's two-hour running time. It's pure time economics. Plus, the songs in these things are always dumb.
Best Extra: "Sweeney Todd Is Alive: The Real History of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" explores the origins of this Jack the Ripperlike mythology. Plus, there's no singing.
For fans of this stuff, there's a ton of behind-the-scenes making-of stuff, mostly focusing on how none of the actors had ever sung before.
Reminded Us Of Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, From Hell, actual hell
The Good: The parts where they weren't singing and were just slashing throats and mutilating bodies were OK. Every time they started to sing, we pretty much tuned it out. (Horrible pun intended.)
The Bad: No matter how much blood is splattered, it's still a musical. And musicals suck.
Why do musicals suck? Instead of a character just saying what they think, they have to sing it, which takes so much longer. If they cut out the songs and just said what they're thinking, they could cut down on the movie's two-hour running time. It's pure time economics. Plus, the songs in these things are always dumb.
Best Extra: "Sweeney Todd Is Alive: The Real History of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" explores the origins of this Jack the Ripperlike mythology. Plus, there's no singing.
For fans of this stuff, there's a ton of behind-the-scenes making-of stuff, mostly focusing on how none of the actors had ever sung before.