Danny's Review:
• Graphic Bloody Violence and Graphic Bloody Songs! • Enthusiastic Throat Cutting • Great Performances by Everybody! Running Time: 117 Minutes Very Important: A Sense of Humor is for Maximum Enjoyment of this Review Page! If you need to understand why, Click Here! NOTE: All studio images/trailers and content is used for the purpose of publicity and No Copyright Infringement Is Intended.
   
I had seen the movie trailers for a couple of weeks before this movie premiered... ...but it was only a few days before I saw it that I found out that it was a Musical Movie! People, don't get me wrong....Danny Loves Musical Movies! But I was wondering why the advertisements and trailers deliberately concealed the fact that this was a Musical Movie. I had a sinking feeling that this Musical Movie was going to Suck Ass and Balls! I'm a huge fan of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, two of the most daring and original guys working in Hollywood! But because of the "Cover-up", I started to get the sinking suspicion that perhaps they royally screwed up this time! And when I found out that Johnny Depp was singing himself....with no prior singing experience....I said to myself, "Oh, Shit....this Musical Movie is really gonna suck Big Time!"  Copyright © 2007 Dreamworks,
Especially when they found out about Depp's lack of singing experience. I'm 99.9% sure that the studios themselves thought this Musical Movie would bomb! So they tried to get as many people into the theater as possible in the first weekend....figuring that the ticket sales would nose dive afterwards when word spread that this was a musical. Fuckin' Movie Suits are such Spineless Jelly-Fish Assholes, Man! Let me tell you Boys and Girls....Danny is Not Afraid to admit when he has "Jumped The Gun" and made a mistake! And Danny made a Huge Mistake by pre-judging Sweeney Todd before seeing it first!   I heard lots of good reviews going into Sweeney Todd....but that doesn't always guarantee that the movie will be good!
But there was only one way to be sure....so on New Year's Eve 2008, I took in an early showing of Sweeney Todd! From the beginning I was hook! Listening to their Gutter Cockney British Accents reminded me of Mary Poppins and Oliver! Johnny Depp plays a mild mannered barber in London. He's married to a beautiful wife and they have a cute baby daughter. But the local judge has the Clammy Thigh Sweats for the barbers wife too, so he has the barber arrested on a false charge and thrown in prison. Which in those days meant, being sent to the island prison of Australia!
 Copyright © 2007 Dreamworks,All Rights Reserved The Barber escapes and manages to get back to London after 15 years. He finds out about all the Nasty Things that happened to his wife and daughter while he was away and decides to take REVENGE! GODDAMN.... ....DANNY LOVES REVENGE! It's NEVER wrong to get even with someone who has wronged you or your family! NEVER! He wants Revenge on the "Whole Bloody, Shit-Eating World!"
Helena Bonham-Carter is also in the movie....and, like Depp, is also Fantastic! She plays The Barber's landlady who lives downstairs from him where she owns and operates a bakery that specializes in Meat Pies. She's the one who comes up with an ingenious way of disposing of the bodies.... "Why Let all that Meat Go To Waste?" I think you've got the idea! Copyright © 2007 Dreamworks, All Rights Reserved
The Lyrics are a little hard to understand from time to time because of the Cockney British accents....but not that hard! I was laughing in the my seat while The Barber is singing a funny little sad/upbeat song....while he's slicing open jugulars! He has a trap door where he dumps the body from the 2nd floor to the basement.... ....Where The Baker is waiting for them next to a Huge Meat Grinder and an Oven! YUMMY!!! For the past few years, Hollywood has been producing one Quality Musical Movie after another. Danny is VERY Pleased with this Trend!  Click Here!  
UPDATE — January 22, 2008 Sweeney Todd was Nominated for Three Academy Awards for 2007: • Best Actor - Johnny Depp • Best Art Direction • Best Costume Design UPDATE — February 24, 2008 Sweeney Todd won One Academy Award for 2007: • Best Art Direction 
Sweeney Todd: [holding up one of his razors] At last! My arm is complete again! Cool Movie Quote — No. 2 Sweeney Todd: [sung] They all deserve to die/ Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why/ Because in all of the whole human race Mrs. Lovett there are two kinds of men and only two/ There's the one staying put in his proper place and one with his foot in the other one's face/ Look at me, Mrs Lovett! Look at you!/ No, we all deserve to die/ Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I! Cool Movie Quote — No. 3 Mrs. Lovett: Mr. T, you didn't! [looks into the chest, sees Pirelli's dead body and gasps. Shuts it] Mrs. Lovett: You're barking mad! Killing a man what done ya no harm! Sweeney Todd: [polishing his razor] He recognized me from the old days. Tried to blackmail me. Half me earnings. Mrs. Lovett: [relieved] Oh, well that's a different matter then. For a moment there I thought you lost your marbles. [opens the chest again and stares] Mrs. Lovett: Ugh! All that blood. Poor bugger. Oh well! [looks through Pirelli's jacket before removing his money pouch and examining it's contents] Mrs. Lovett: Well, waste not, want not! [tucks it into her bodice] Cool Movie Quote — No. 4 Judge Turpin: Oh yes... such practices. The Geisha's of Japan, the concubines of Siam, the catamites of Greece, the harlots of India. I have them all here, drawings of them. Everything you've ever dreamed of doing with a woman. Would you like to see? Anthony Hope: I think there's been some mistake. Judge Turpin: I think not. You gandered at my ward, Johanna. You gandered at her. YES, sir, you gandered! Anthony Hope: I meant no harm. Judge Turpin: Your meaning is immaterial. Mark me! If I see your face again on this street, you'll rue the day you were born. Cool Movie Quote — No. 5 Judge Turpin: How seldom it is one meets a fellow spirit. Sweeney Todd: With fellow tastes... in women at least. Judge Turpin: [unsettled] What's that? Sweeney Todd: The years, no doubt, have changed me, sir. But then I suppose the face of a barber, the face of a prisoner in the dark, is not even memorable. Judge Turpin: [with immense shock] Benjamin... Barker... Sweeney Todd: [shouts] Benjamin Barker!  IMDB!  Classic Musical Movies 
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