Johnny Depp is… Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (A Tim Burton Film)
Movie was excellent so I am no doubt going to read the original novel. I didn’t know that Johnny Depp could sing! Amazing! It’s rated R for ‘Graphic Bloody Violence’ — I think I’ve seen more violence in PG films but there certainly is an excessive amount of blood and Todd (Depp) relishes every drop. Helena Bonham Carter is equally excellent as the co-star. We’ve all seen parodies of this story so I was curious to see something based on Sondheim/Wheeler’s original work. I was not disappointed. The story itself is quite distrubing with all the twists you’d expect from a classic thriller.
