Thursday, April 3, 2008

Review - Sweeney Todd

Every once in a while a movie comes along that is clearly well-made, features great talent and yet fails to entertain. Sweeney Todd was one of those movies.
The story follows a barber who returns to London from exile to find that his wife has died and his daughter taken as a ward by the evil Judge Turpin (played by the ever-amazing Alan Rickman). He sets about murdering the immoral in the city while his partner in crime and lover/friend, Mrs. Lovett bakes their bodies into meat pies and sells them in her pie shop. It is a a very macabre, certainly unusual plot but it all seems just a little bit too familiar.
A lame bastardization of Sondheim's musical, Sweeney Todd feels more or less like a vanity project for Depp, Burton and Bonham-Carter. It is beautiful and lavishly shot with a dark, and foreboding mise-en-scene (Burton's specialty). Even Depp and Bonham Carter's singing talents are passable. However, the movie feels like it simply tries way too hard and it never manages to ensnare its audience. It is much more worthwhile as a filmmaker's experiment than as a story. It just feels a little bit too much like watching a family reunion of all of Burton's characters. Halfway through the movie, I found myself wondering where Edward's scissorhands were. There is not really anything particularly wrong with Sweeney Todd, it's simply fails to make an imprint. Looking crazy isn't enough to sell movies anymore...

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