Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton does it again, his horror musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” wows the crowd with the fantastical story line and bloody props. Tim Burton has been very clever as to what genre his film should categories in, he has literally covered all the possible film genres, although the film may look like our typical horror slasher, it is in fact very similar to the Romeo and Juliet story line; a vengeful barber (Johnny Depp) in 19th century London, takes revenge upon his rival enemy Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) after he kidnaps Sweeney Todd and places him on the other side of the world and steals his family.

Sweeney Todd after many years finds that his business is forgotten, and replaced with an old pie shop and its owner Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter). When Mrs. Lovett finally finds out Sweeney Todd’s real past, she loans him back his Barber shop and the cutting starts there.

Tim Burton has directed many theatrical films in the past, such as “The Nightmare Before Christmas”, “The Corpse Bride” and “Edward Scissorhands”, although many of these films have a gothic and vintage theme to compare to them, they are not as deep or well produced as “Sweeney Todd”. Sweeney Todd has had the best producers, designers and actors that the film could possible offer.

Sweeney Todd has been produced to the upmost top standards of 2007, many awards have been won; such as two Oscars, two Saturn awards, and another twenty varying from different top awarding services also because the film is so theatrically detailed they had to let Sweeney Todd run in the cinemas a little longer than usual for films, so all people could gain the cinematic experience.