Sweeney Todd Movie Review

I didn't want to see this movie. Nothing about it interested me. BUT, it fell into the right timeslot between this and the next movie. Otherwise, I would have needed to have gone home and then come back two hours later and I had a primo parking spot at the theater (having been there since they opened and all) so I wasn't about to give that up, either.

I couldn't imagine how anyone would want to sit through this movie since everyone in it was unattractive, and the music sounded absolutely atrocious and I'll admit, I knew nothing of the storyline beforehand, so I had no idea what to expect.

This movie can be described in two words "deliciously awful".

The basic story is that Benjamin Barker had a great life with his beautiful and loving wife and their new baby but because of a jealous judge, Benjamin was falsely accused and imprisoned for many years and by the time he got out, he learned that his wife was dead and his daughter had been adopted by the judge - who was now waiting for her to mature enough so that she could become his wife. (Yeah, I know...ew.)

Benjamin returns as Sweeney Todd and remains the best barber in town who can provide the quickest, smoothest shave, and when the judge is in his barber chair, bad thoughts run through his mind and now he wants to get his revenge. But there is an interruption, so the judge leaves and Todd ends up killing everyone else while he's waiting for the judge to make a return visit.

Weird, weird movie. And I highly recommend NOT eating anything while watching it. The fake blood looked like bright red paint, so it wasn't stomach churning, but the bugs. Well, as some of you may know, I have a slight aversion to anything with more than 4 legs and the first 20 minutes or so were very difficult for me to sit through as cockroaches were crawling all over the counter tops and into the food that was being baked. I can't even write anymore about that without getting sick to my stomach, so suffice it to say, just make sure you're prepared for those scenes....because there are several.

If you remember the storyline to Little Shop Of Horrors, this is somewhat along those lines. Killing for the good of others but still knowing it's a bad thing, but continuing to do it, anyway.

I'm not sure if I could recommend this one or not. It was interesting and different than any other movie I've ever seen, but I can't say I would want to see it again anytime soon. Or even again, period. The music was really bad, and hard to follow all of what they were singing about, the laughs were uncomfortable laughs, and the ending was just awful.

But there was a sweet love story somewhere in the middle of it and as the movie progresses, you get used to the dirtiness of the scenery and the ugliness of the characters and it's not as horrible of a film as it was when the opening credits were rolling.

So mark me as undecided for now.

Vixy :]