If you havn't seen the movie...just warning that I might give away shit and stuff...so just so's ya know's
alright
Overall it was really good
but incredibly frightening
and I can understand why it was rated R
the Sondheim music was of course incredible and it swelled to be like REALLY loud and that made it really scary
and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter were good
they didn't do it all broadway and big and vibratic and stuff but that was probably a Tim Burton request that it was more gloomy and quiet
Helena Bonham Carter has a really wispy voice and it was nice
They changed the words at one point in "Poor Thing" and it really didn't seem necessary...they changed it from
"There were these two ya see
Wanted her like mad
One of them a judge
T' other one is Beadle
Everyday they'd nudge and they'd weadle
Still she wouldn't budge from her needle"
to
something about
"The Judge he had power
Everyday he sent her a flower
still she wouldn't budge from her tower"
and it's like...okay
but it was still good
in "God that's Good"
there was a harmony with Mrs. Lovette and Toby that was really beautiful and I really liked it
but they cut thing part with the chair being delivered and he just changed the chair he had already
and they cut Ah Miss and I really like the Quartet in that
which was a shame but I didn't even realize until way after it would've been
I REALLY liked the way they casted Johanna because she was plain but still really pretty
very Tim Burton esque
I wasn't sure if I liked Anthony though because Fiona kept saying he looked like Kiera Knightly...and he really did
he had weird eyes
he wasn't ugly but ...eh
I thought Toby was a great singer but he wasn't cute
I kept thinking of that boy from Willy Wonka and Finding NEverland ...he would've been cute but I don't know if he sings
whatev
There was a part where instead of snapping a birds neck and saying "Next time it'll be your neck"to Anthony. the Judge asked Anthony into his house just so he could have the Beadle throw up out and beat the shit out of him with his Cane and he said "next time it'll be your pretty little brains on the bricks"...it was gross
speaking of which
the blood was totally fake
but it was on purpose
because everything was WAY dark and WAY gloomy and then the blood was like WOAH TECHNICOLOR!!!
and they would cut a throat and it would just fall down their neck and they would just sit there
and even on stage they reacted...for the movie shouldn't it have been more realistic
I mean teh Beggar woman was standing up and she just kind up stood there with blood on her neck
and then fell down the trap door
but the color was okay because it kind of showed it's significance to Sweeney Todd which was alright
Johnny Depp was actually good
he wasn't a crazy mad singer or anything like George Hearn or whatever
even though he did have some angry growls like "OUT I SAY! OUT!"
but it worked that he was a little quieter because that was scary in it's own way
because it was more like he was plotting something and it was really evil
The one part I really hated was when Mrs. Lovette dies
I mean I knew she was going to die
but in the stage version he just throws her in the oven and closes it
in this you WATCH her burn and you see her all burning and screaming and her face is all scared and melting and she doesn't have any hair
it's so fucking frightening
I hated that
and that the whole beginning of the credits were totally computer generated
...actually a lot of it was that way
but it was very Tim Burton
really perfect ...even the tears in the wall paper were perfect
and the streets were perfectly blue and sad
It was really good overall
I think if you like Sweeney Todd you should see it just because it's like the newest edition to the Library of sweeney todd stuff
And it's not really better than the stage show but it's like comparing apples to oranges
because they're both so different
Either way it was very good very good
much recommendation...to you
-Henry
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