sweeney todd
28 Jan 2008 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayoraaseiClimbed out of bed at 8am on a rare long weekend...only for you, Depp! LOL.
I have to say this movie's not for everyone, certainly not for those who prefer Enchanted *cough cough*
Everyone has such a lovely singing voice. Except maybe Johanna ==; I don't know why, but her shrill vibrato really grated, so good thing she had only one song. Loved it during duets (even if it's not so much duets as two people singing over each other), and loved the way Depp spat out his words XD Jamie Campbell Bower might look like a permanently stricken herbivore, but he has such a very pretty singing voice. Depp spends the entire film with his brows locked in a dark scowl, which provides for fleeting moments of comic relief when Mrs Lovett croons about her wedding dreams...
Sweeney Todd's a much darker film than any of the other Burton-Depp films I've seen, and probably uses more red paint (surely blood isn't that shiny??) than Sleepy Hollow. Two twisted souls in the twisted city of London, unravelling a twisted tale of murder and cannibalism. Yum. No meat pies for me in the near future!
There are moments of comedy, and many more long moments of light melancholy, but the emotional weight of the film seems to lie most in Toby singing in his zealous treble "Nothing's gonna harm you".
I'm not a fan of movies where everything spirals into disintegration, which is probably why I didn't enjoy The Prestige as much as I did The Illusionist, and which is why I didn't enjoy this as much as I did the last Burton-Depp "horror" production.
Still, a Burton film that has Depp and Carter and Rickman can surely do no wrong =P
(Yeah, I realised that this review practically said nothing. But it's Depp! What more need I say? XD Still picked up on a few Captain Sparrow quirks though...)
I have to say this movie's not for everyone, certainly not for those who prefer Enchanted *cough cough*
Everyone has such a lovely singing voice. Except maybe Johanna ==; I don't know why, but her shrill vibrato really grated, so good thing she had only one song. Loved it during duets (even if it's not so much duets as two people singing over each other), and loved the way Depp spat out his words XD Jamie Campbell Bower might look like a permanently stricken herbivore, but he has such a very pretty singing voice. Depp spends the entire film with his brows locked in a dark scowl, which provides for fleeting moments of comic relief when Mrs Lovett croons about her wedding dreams...
Sweeney Todd's a much darker film than any of the other Burton-Depp films I've seen, and probably uses more red paint (surely blood isn't that shiny??) than Sleepy Hollow. Two twisted souls in the twisted city of London, unravelling a twisted tale of murder and cannibalism. Yum. No meat pies for me in the near future!
There are moments of comedy, and many more long moments of light melancholy, but the emotional weight of the film seems to lie most in Toby singing in his zealous treble "Nothing's gonna harm you".
I'm not a fan of movies where everything spirals into disintegration, which is probably why I didn't enjoy The Prestige as much as I did The Illusionist, and which is why I didn't enjoy this as much as I did the last Burton-Depp "horror" production.
Still, a Burton film that has Depp and Carter and Rickman can surely do no wrong =P
(Yeah, I realised that this review practically said nothing. But it's Depp! What more need I say? XD Still picked up on a few Captain Sparrow quirks though...)
