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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2 Discs)£5.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £22.99 | You save: £17.00 (73%) Usually dispatched within 4-5 days |
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From the dark, gothic imagination of iconic director Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a bloody tale of music, murder, melodrama and meat pies. Laced with black humour and seasoned with beautiful musical ballads, Tim Burton serves up a sugarplum tale of serial-killing barber Sweeney Todd and his desperate desire for revenge.
Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) a once timid law-abiding hairdresser who was unjustly imprisoned on the other side of the world for fifteen years has returned to London to seek vengeance. Armed with razors and the adopted guise of Sweeney Todd, Barker sets up business in his old barber shop above the pie-making premises of Mrs. Nellie Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter). Enlisting the help of the pie purveyor, Barker sets about targeting Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) who, along with his henchman Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall), shipped him off to Australia on a trumped-up charge in order to poach his wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Spall) and baby daughter.
The grotty setting of Victorian London presents the perfect location for Tim Burton's gothic vision and with much-loved muse Johnny Depp pitched alongside the hauntingly talented Helena Bonham Carter; Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is an irresistible set up. Burton's direction of this, his darkest and certainly bloodiest feature to date, is note perfect and, with the accompaniment of the disturbing and dissonant musical ballads of Steven Sondheim, has presented an eye-popping feast of horror, black comedy, and genuine heartache. Embodying elements of murder, abuse, and madness, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a macabre and moving musical movie that, much like one of Mrs. Lovett's meat pies, is fulfilling, drenched in blood, and full of surprises.

Average rating (250 reviews)
amzing
clubland13 | 06/06/2009 | See all clubland13's reviews (10) »
What can i say i loved the music great musical i realy would like to watch this in the west end overall the films great
Horrible, awful, useless, the list goes on
inisbeag91 | 24/05/2009 | See all inisbeag91's reviews (99) »
I love johnny depp and i like musicals too but this was an absolute stinker. If you were to read about the plot on the back of the box the movies sounds ok but if you watch the movie you don't really know whats happening. There is way too much killing with almost all of it unnecessary. Wait til you get to the ending, oh man it is horrible, it doesn't resolve anything and you just feel like saying is that it? The hole story of the young man chasing the girl is not resoled at all. There are three things however that i think were very good about this movie and those were the costumes (especially carters and depps), the songs(watch for the borat lad in one scene) and the locations. However these cannot save this from being an awful film. Stay away unless you love tim burton
one word - brilliance
Myatt94 | 01/05/2009 | See all Myatt94's reviews (14) »
Tim Burton and Depp do it again to be fair i didnt like the idea that it was a musical but it is one of my most favourite films of all time and i watch it monthly.
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jayne Wisener, Jamie Campbell Bower, Anthony Head, Laura Michelle Kelly & Ed Sanders | |
18 years and over | |
2007 | |
English - Dolby Digital (5.1) | |
English ; Arabic ; Hebrew ; Icelandic ; Greek | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |




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