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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Blu-ray]
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Blu-ray]
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4.0 (383 reviews)
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4Not for the Squeamish
5Well worth it!!
4Okay, so it isn't Broadway!
20%Just not a Soundheim fan, I guess
51%The best musical ever
4George Hearn &Angela Lansbury's version was better...
43 stars out of 4
4Is This As Bizarre As They Say? Yup!
41%Don't take it too seriously
51%Tim Burton Goes For The Jugular
51%Loved it!
5"No Good Singers????????????"
4I found myself shedding some tears -- ST is definitely a tragedy!
30%Another Tim Burton Goth Fest!!!
51%Even As A Singing Actor, Depp Proves He's A Cut Above The Rest.
3HOW MUCH IS A SUFFICIENCY OF BLOOD?
5best movie ever made
20%overstylized and hoakey
20%OMG, didn't know that you could MUCK UP even a REVENGE STORY!
40%There was a strong plot here
51%Blown Away
51%Great movie
51%Johnny Depp
10%Unable to play
31%Depp and Burton again
51%Tim Burtons' BEST MOVIE EVER
51%love this man
51%The best Sweeney Todd yet!
10%Real downer
10%No fun at all
30%Much too bloody. Depp perfectly cast.
51%Righting wrongs
10%Disgrace
21%MUSIC TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY
51%Sweeney Todd-The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
41%A bloody good musical
51%The Musical For Horror-Movie Fans
51%"I Will Have Vengeance, I Will Have Salvation..." "Nothing's Gonna Harm You, Not While I'm Around..." Bloody Well Done.
51%Arrived Quickly as described
51%Music, Murder, and Mischief
51%Superb Performances By An All Star Cast
10%TIM BURTON KILLS ANOTHER CLASSIC!!!!
5"For a Moment There, I Thought You'd Lost Your Marbles..."
51%Goes for the throat
5Not Really a Christmas Movie
4So close, but no catharsis
51%Way better than I expected!
10%No, no, no, no, no and no
41%The Worst Pies in London
41%Not a Burton fan, but loved it
31%Watchable But Flawed
51%A Musical of a Different Breed
4Surprisingly I liked it!
40%Enigmatic, Gruesome, Riveting,--but Miscast!
5Excellent!
51%A bloody good musical
50%Sweeney Todd is Terrific
30%Superb in so many ways but unnecessarily gruesome
51%If Tim Burton Ever Wrote A Musical.... ;)
51%Haunting and hilarious
41%A Close Shave To Perfection
10%What a waste of time and money
41%Movie: 3.75/5 Picture Quality: 4~5/5 Sound Quality: 4.5/5 Extras: 3.75/5
50%If you like musicals and want one with a dark edge, this is for YOU!
41%Blood and gore and upbeat songs
30%Love The Movie But The DVD ....
20%Gorgeous - but disappointing storytelling
5Geeeeee Beeeeeeee (G B)
21%BEWARE - if the quality of the visuals matter to you on this HD release
20%Not as good as the Broadway version
51%My most favorite musical ever!
51%Johnny Depp is Awesome!!!!!
51%Fantastic Movie
21%What did I miss?
51%Sweeny Todd
5Great movie!!
30%Not the greatest ever made, but watchable
31%Not the greatest Tim Burton film I've seen...
50%Sweeney Todd
51%A musical i actually like
10%Garbage
51%Fantastic surprise
20%Doesn't live up to the hype
20%A weak and dissapointing film
40%MEAT PIE!
41%"There was a foolish barber . . ."
20%Lots of Blood...But Where's The Beef?
51%Sondheim, Burton, and Depp- Oh My!
10%BORING! Just stone BORING!
30%The Perfect Tim Burton Film
20%watch with subtitles
41%There Will be BLOOD...
51%Sweeney Todd
51%Love this version too.
51%SWING YOUR BLADE HIGH SWENNEY REACH FOR THE SKY!
51%Love it
41%Stands on its own
51%Tim Burton's best so far!
51%Great Movie!
51%Tim Burton's finest hour
51%A Bloody Great Musical
4Good but...............
51%Excellent Adaptation
10%Very unenjoyable
10%Sweeney Todd
51%I HATE JOHNNY DEPP!
4Brilliant portrayal.......
51%Sweeney Todd
51%SWEENEY THE MAGNIFICENT BARBER OF FLEET STREET
41%A Little Comedy Helps The Medicine Go Down
51%ANOTHER GREAT MUSICAL
10%Worst Music Mix Ever
51%very good movie
51%"Demon Barber" is wickedly good fun!
51%amazing sweeney todd
4Movies that make you go hmmmm....
51%"Sweeney Todd" Achieves a Brilliant Leap from Stage to Screen!
51%"The closest shave you'll ever know"
51%"Let's keep living it, just keep living it, REALLY living it!"
51%Wonderful Adaptation
41%Embrace your dark side
41%Musical Mayhem And Gore
51%I love this movie
41% A truly great film
10%Please Hollywood, enough with the loud soundtracks!!!
10%Oh God, another Burton-Depp collaboration
4Darkly delightful
10%Poor audio control and whole movie was too dark
30%Left me unfullfilled.
51%Crazed Barber Spills Blood, Musically
51%Sweeny Todd
20%Did I miss something?
5Great film
51%Sweeney Todd
51%The best movie ever!
41%Dark, Gory, but it has Depp
41%Great, but, intense for those "sensitive individuals"
51%Johnny Depp does it again! MAJOR HOTTIE!
10%Disappointed
40%Casting Could Have Been Better for Mrs. Lovett
51%Sweeney's waiting...
4Not Your Ordinary Musical
51%a different kind of musical
51%WAS A SCENE CUT FROM THE DVD?
31%There will be blood - lots of it...
41%a classic
5Sweeney Todd: 2 Disc DVD
31%Missing in Action
41%Imperfect, but Johnny Depp's Singing Serial Killer Is Worth the Price of Admission.
51%WHAT A MOVIE!
5Lush. Dark. Intense.
5AMAZING BURTON/DEPP FILM!
51%The Words of My Daughter
4Bloody, Brutal and Brilliant
5Bloody Good Show
51%Sweeney Todd,The Demon barber of Fleet Street DVD
10%possibly the worst film of Tim Burton's career
51%Sweeny Todd
51%outstanding!
40%An original, if flawed musical
31%Aggrevating sound
30%Black and White And Red All Over
51%Its Amazing
51%An Intense Retelling of an Oft-Told Tale
41%Closest Shave Ever
51%The King of Barbers, the Barber of Kings
5Blood 'n Guts 'Gore Then Blood 'n Guts 'n Gore S'more.....
41%Sweeney Todd: Great Cinema Under Burton's Hand
51%Sweeney Stardust & the Spiders of Fleet Street
51%Avid Depp fan
51%An Anti-Musical
41%very dark, but beautiful, at least to the non-hardcore-sondheim fan
41%Goth to the last bloody drop
51%A true Masterpiece!
31%"The Closest I Ever Gave" ~ A Musical Walk On The Dark Side
41%The Best Version Of The Story So Far
10%embarrassing, bad, idiotic
51%We all deserve to die... Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I...
41%Excellently Directed
51%Macabre Masterpiece...Just Wish I'd Known...
40%First taste of Sweeney...
51%Exceptional masterpiece!
20%A bloody time for all
20%Never Forget, Never Forgive, Never Watch This Movie Again...
51%A brilliant adaptation brilliantly filmed
4Burton's unusual mix of horror and music works...
50%cockroaches & Mr. Depp
41%A Worthy Addition to the Sweeney Todd repertoire
40%4.5; Burton's best in awhile
51%He shaved the faces of gentlemen, who never thereafter were heard from again...
4Great remake
50%a perfect FILM version! Embrace the difference!
51%A worthy screen adaptation
20%Oh well. I was really looking forward to this one.
40%Demonbarbers
10%Horror movie???
51%Excellent production! Much, much better that stage version.
10%This is one dvd that is a musical and blood and blood and
30%Seems a downright shame...
10%Too much blood draining from too many necks
51%Sweeney Todd Movie Review
51%"No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now... Sweeney Todd... and he will have his revenge..."
41%Delighted to see Sweeney Todd reach a wider audience!
51%Wonderful!
40%You Can't Really Go Wrong With Tim Burton
41%Oh, the humanity!!!
20%If you like Burton, Depp and Boham-Carter, don't watch this movie!
20%Too Much Blood!
10%Burton's Todd gets a vat of venom, and deserves it.
30%Overrated, unfortunately
50%Buy this movie and fall in love!
30%Good, just not compared to Broadway
30%Probably good if you've never heard of Sweeney Todd
50%Alsome Movie!
51%Breathtaking
51%A Musical Masterpiece finally done perfecto to film
10%Missed Opportunity
51%OMG so much BETTER than the 1982 Broadway Play
30%dvd quality sub par
10%Poor color, poor sound
20%Jamie Campbell Bower steals the show with....
51%Wonderful!
51%Uncannily Entertaining
10%Long boring parts interspersed with short bursts of horrific violence
51%Excellent Tim Burton Movie!
51%From Elm Street to Fleet Street...
51%Sweeney Todd a great slasher film, why cgi works in a Burton film, and dvd features for the 2 disc version.
51%The Demon Barber of Fleet...Street. Simply Brilliant.
51%Rave for Sweeney Todd
51%Stage vs Screen
51%A Must See..
51%A spectacular triumph
40%VICTORIAN DARKNESS..BURTON STYLE
30%Overrated and Underexposed
10%BORING music, LIFELESS direction
51%I'd have rated this a 6 if I could have!
50%Brilliant!
51%Dark and Gripping
51%A Musical Transferred
30%it was entertaining
51%The Many Facets of Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD
50%I love JOHNNY DEPP!!!!
10%Vocals completely swamped by the sound track!
41%Beautifully Classic
10%what a surprise
51%Johnny Depp Sings! Enough Said...
41%How About A Shave?
4Pretty near brilliant considering the difficulties...
51%Bloody Good Fun - And A Good Match For Burton!
41%Intriguing
51%Not An Elitist, Just a Moviegoer
4A bloody good time, though try to separate it from the stage version
51%slightly... AMAZING!
51%Special Collector's Edition Loaded with Extras!
51%BURTON'S SPIN ON SONDHEIM'S SWEENEY IS BLOODY FUN
50%Clmive Barker meets Anne Rice
51%Superb Film Adaptation of Sondheim's Musical From Tim Burton
41%Sweeney Todd on Film: Stylized and De-Opera-ized
21%OK, But Shows The Limits of Screen vs. Stage Actors' Musical Performances
51%awsome film
30%Not bad, but cannot compare with the Broadway cast
51%Well Done!
21%Edward Scissorhands goes berserk
10%An astounding disappointment.
50%Tim burton + Depp is always a winner!
51%simply a work of art, a masterpiece, a classic
51%ONE WORD AMAZING!
40%A Very Strange Musical
51%BEST MOVIE OF YEAR!!!
51%A Perfect Movie
51%A Little "Gorey".....
51%Attend The Tale Of Sweeney Todd
30%You Could Swim In The Amount Of Blood Shed...
50%FOR LOVERS OF THE SHOW....
51%extras extras read all about it......
51%One of the best movies of 2007/08
20%Disappointing
50%A Bare Bones Adaptation of a Great Musical
51%On Fleet Street, a Shave and a Haircut Can Cost Much More Than Two Bits
50%No Blu-ray?
51%It Never was a smash - It doesn't have to be! It's brilliant!!!
51%Best Musical I Have Ever Seen
40%Great as a film, but only so-so as a musical
51%A Masterpiece!!!!
20%great production design,but...
50%HD? Not Blu-Ray?
20%Dull
51%Todd's tonsorial tragicomedy
51%Whoo hoo!
51%Throat Slashing, Singing, and Meat Pies, What more Could You Want?
51%The years have changed him
51%SWEENEY TODD (:
51%"Oh look, Johanna a shooting star..." Destined to be a cult classic!
51%Perfect
51%Great!
30%Whateva
51%Burton's Best in Years
30%The awsome threesome in some awfulness
51%How about a shave?
4The Reduced Sondheim Company
51%HOW ABOUT A SHAVE?
50%If it works, don't fix it.
50%Epic
41%"Harry Potter's Supporting Cast And The Silver Shaver Murders"
30%Good film, bad songs.
50%Wondering.....
4Fascinating
51%"How About A Shave?"
51%Burton's gruesome vision of Sondheim's masterpiece is a fun creepy-crawly.
51%Fantastic Performance By Depp
50%"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street" is excellent!
50%A definate must see!
51%Perfect.
41%...And He shall have his Revenge!
51%"How about a shave?"
51%Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
50%Loved the Movie - Hated the Bloodletting!
41%Wonderful adaption, except for. . .
10%The worst film ever made.
41%"The years, no doubt, have changed me."
41%Edward Razorhands
5Bloody good! Just don't take it too seriously.
5If you don't mind the blood, this was a wonderfully enjoyable film.
41%perfect vehicle for Burton and Depp
51%A "Sweeney" that sweeps you up in its clutches.
5Best Movie of 2007
51%Burton's Gothic Revenge Musical is his Masterpiece
41%Depp and Burton Slice Right to the Thick of Things
51%Revenge is a dish best served in a nice hot meat pie with lots of gravy! (4.5 stars)
5BLOODY and bloody damn good
31%Better then I expected
41%Makes Me Glad That I'm Bald
50%awesome
51%so beautiful...
51%Sweeny Todd - Movie, Musical, Masterpiece - You Will Be Surprised!!!!
51%Unsavory
51%spectacular!
51%"Freely Flows the Blood of those who Moralize!"
40%Suprisingly Underwhelming
20%2.5 stars - BARELY MISSES THE MARK
51%Grand guignol at its best...meaning razors, slit throats, dripping red stuff and enough black humor to fill a cemetery
51%Not so much a "movie" and an opera on film
4'Ow 'Bout A Shave?
50%BEST DIRECTOR/ACTOR
51%TEN STARS!!!
51%A Magnificently rendered "Sondheim Sweeney" by Burton
51%One word: WOW!
51%Broadway Version Lovers can relax! Sondheim approved and you will too!
51%Never forgive. Never forget.
41%Powerful Combination of Sondheim and Burton Makes the Demon Barber Come to Bloody Life
51%A Bloody, Brilliant "Sweeney"
51%Sondheim's Masterpiece Finally on Film
51%"He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again..."
30%The Good, The Bad, The Bloody Bad
51%Sweeney Makes it to the Big Screen - Beautifully
51%Immersive and immense
41%Not a fan of musicals, but Sweeney is a blast
50%GREAT
51%Stunning
31%A little Sondheim
41%SWEENEY: Revenge is a dish best served...bloody
10%JUST TERRIBLE
40%Violently Confounding
41%Bloody Fun
51%AWESOME! One of the best films of the year!
51%Shave and a Murder, Two Bits
10%Can't come close to the broadway version
40%Sweeney Todd Movie Review
51%Saw a sneak preview! This is good, bloody fun!!!
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