Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 123movies

Watch: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family..
Plot: The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 369,334
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	83/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 5159 Popularity: 22.521 | TMDB

Reviews:

Tim Burton’s most dramatically satisfying film so far.
I approached Sweeney Todd with trepidation, having been underwhelmed with most of Tim Burton’s recent output and every screen musical of the last decade. The biggest problem I have with Burton’s films is that his screenplays rarely manage to pull their disparate elements into a satisfying whole. Here, despite adapting the material to his own sensibilities and shortening the play by an hour, he adheres closely to Sondheim’s book, resulting in the most dramatically satisfying film Burton has ever made.

I liked the adaptation of the off-off Broadway Hedwig and the Angry Inch, but have been left underwhelmed by all the recent big budget film musicals, so I’m glad to say that Sweeney Todd, wipes the floor with every major screen musical of the last decade, including the likable if over extended Hairspary. Most surprising is how shockingly gruesome the the film becomes in the second half. This must be the most blood drenched film since Shogun Assassin, with arteries spurting blood like like fountains as throats are cut, with the violence escalating towards the end leading towards a climax that is exhilarating, heartbreaking and satisfyingly bleak.

Unlike the dreary dirges Danny Elfman supplied for Burton’s stop frame musicals, Sondheim’s score is a joy to listen to from beginning to end, its dark romanticism sometimes reminding me of Bernhard Herrmann, perfectly fitting what is both a musical and a horror film in equal measures.

Depp and Bonham Carter are both excellent and it’s down to their performances that I never quite lost sympathy with them in their descent into madness, blood lust and cannibalism.

Musical haters may not be converted as 75% percent of the dialogue is sung, but this completely dispatches any notion of cloying sentimentally the genre is often associated with.

Visually stunning, shame about the singing.
I know a little about “Sweeny Todd”, but I haven’t seen any other films/TV Shows or read any books based on the legend, which makes this my first experience with it; and I’m highly disappointed. The disappointment grows further because this story and Tim Burton’s directorial style are clearly a match made in heaven – but for some reason, a terrible decision was made on how the film would work and it’s spoilt something that could have been great. I would write a song about this film’s main problem – but I’d prefer to clearly state that it’s the musical elements that spoil it. The plot is rich with horrific elements and should be a great base for a gory Gothic horror film. We focus on Benjamin Barker; better known as Sweeny Todd, a barber returning to London for revenge against all those that have wronged him. Upon his return to the capital, he meets Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a pie shop where “The Worst Pies in London” are made. If I made the worst pies in London, I’d keep my mouth shut about it – but she sings songs instead and unsurprisingly her shop isn’t doing very well. Anyway, Sweeny Todd opens up a barbers shop upstairs and his lust for killing soon combines with her need for meat to put in pies.

I have to say that the film looks great. Tim Burton has his own directorial style and it translates to the screen very well here and aesthetically, every scene is a joy to behold. The good points continue with the cast; Johnny Depp is always a pleasure to watch and he clearly relishes this role, while Mrs Tim Burton; Helena Bonham Carter, does well starring opposite and the director has also done a good job recruiting some good British talent to fill the supporting roles. The film is also rather graphic and Burton provides the viewers with some real nasty sights including a spate of throat slashing that result in blood spraying everywhere, a succession of corpses falling through a trapdoor and hitting the ground with a brutal thud as well as a machine that grinds Sweeny Todd’s victims into pie meat. This is all well and good but it all comes down to the execution, and the musical elements really spoil it. Many reviewers have said that the horror and musical elements bode well in this film; but for me it really doesn’t work. It comes off as being almost cringe-worthy in places and constantly forced me to ask myself WHY they made this a musical (I know there was a musical version of this story, but there’s also several none musical versions). Another problem with the music is that it all sounds very similar and the songs are not very diverse. The first hour or so is really rather boring anyway and the constant singing soon starts to grate. Things improve massively towards the end and despite a couple of songs; the final half hour is really quite good. Overall, I love the atmosphere and the gore of this film – but I can’t get on with the musical elements at all, which unfortunately means that a film which could have been a masterpiece is sadly not much better than passable. A shame.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 50000000
Revenue 152000000
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Horror, Musical
Director Tim Burton
Writer John Logan, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond
Actors Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 34 wins & 77 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Millennium XL, Panavision Primo Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory Company 3, Los Angeles (CA), USA (digital intermediate), DeLuxe, London, UK, One Post, London, UK (digital intermediate)
Film Length 3,074 m (Portugal, 35 mm), 3,177 m (Sweden), 3,200 m (Norway)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical) (Kodak Vision 2383), D-Cinema