Critics on Burton's Sweeney Todd demonic masterpiece
Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
All my life I've loved -- worshipped -- what Stephen Sondheim's music can do for the human heart. Blend this with a tragic, grand guignol metaphor about how we're all caught up with some issue of the past -- needing on some level to pay the world back for the hurt and the woundings. Add to this Burton's exquisite visual panache and precision, the drop-dead beautiful, near monochromatic color, the ravishing production design and...pardon me for sounding like a pushover, but this movie pushes over
At times it melted me like a candle. I was lifted, moved. I was never not aroused. Every frame is a painting
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Tom O'Neil, Los Angeles Times
You know that a movie wows an audience when nobody stirs during the closing credits. That's what happened at the end of Sweeney Todd tonight at the first critics' screening in Manhattan. Finally, three-fourths of the way through the credits, I stood to exit, but my neighbors in the dark did not and I had to climb over them
Viewers were either utterly spellbound by this film or else struck dumb and numb in shock. A movie that begins with small riverlets of blood flowing during the opening shots ends with red showers so intense that New York Times' David Carr said to me afterward, 'I felt like I should've watched that movie wearing a raincoat
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David Poland, Movie City News
The movie's sense of humor, when not dripping blood, is a bit limited. This is unusual for Burton, but the subject is more directly serious than any other film he's ever made. This is not a fairy tale. There is symbolism and non-literalism, but it's a harsh, brutal story about loss and revenge and the futility of our rage... and Burton has embraced that tone completely, along with his actors
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Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Except for imaginary sequences or flashbacks to happier days, the film has a monochromatic look with color drained from cityscape. Depp and Carter dress mostly in stark dark clothes with black circles around the eyes, almost as if the figures in Burton's Corpse Bride served as models
The musical numbers ooze with Sondheim's audacious wit and scathing lyrics. A lullaby conveys menace. A waltz celebrates conspiracy. Cynicism runs through all the songs' social critique. The blood juxtaposed to the music is highly unsettling. It runs contrary to expectations. Burton pushes this gore into his audiences' faces so as to feel the madness and the destructive fury of Sweeney's obsession. Teaming with Depp, his long-time alter ego, Burton makes Sweeney a smoldering dark pit of fury and hate that consumes itself. With his sturdy acting and surprisingly good voice, Depp is a Sweeney Todd for the ages
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Harry Knowles, Ain't It Cool News
Sweeney Todd is Tim Burton's best film since Ed Wood -- which I consider to be his very best film to date. That said, upon multiple viewings it is possible this film will become my favorite Burton film
It is that perfect subject matter for him... a hybrid of Disney and Bava and Corman. In structure it is a sweeping love story between a young innocent man and a caged would-be Rapunzel... but then there's that rare character that you never see in a Disney fantasy musical. A bitter psychopathic father figure that is out to revenge the horror of his own life. I would call this Tim Burton's Grimmest Fairy Tale
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رد مقتبس:This is Johnny's greatest work to date, and he is simply brilliant. His acting, his singing; everything is a seamless, beautiful tapestry of talent that cannot be missed.
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