Sweeny Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet street

SWEENY TODD THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
(Musical/Horror/Dark comedy/slasher) (2007) (Rated R for Graphic Bloody Violence)

Plot:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical thriller and the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's stage musical of the same name. The film stars Johnny Depp in the title role, in his sixth collaboration with director Tim Burton. Helena Bonham Carter also stars as Mrs. Lovett, in her fifth collaboration. The film was released in the United States on December 21, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2008 to enthusiastic reviews. It won the award for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) and Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) at the 65th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for Best Actor and Best Costume Design and won Best Art Direction at the 80th Academy Awards.Benjamin Barker, a skilled barber, is falsely charged and sentenced to a life of hard labor by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusts after Barker's wife Lucy. Fifteen years later, under the assumed name "Sweeney Todd", he escapes the penal colony and takes to the sea, where he is found shipwrecked and rescued by sailor Anthony Hope aboard the ship Bountiful headed for England ("No Place Like London"). Upon arrival, Todd returns to his old flat above Nellie Lovett's pie shop on Fleet Street ("The Worst Pies in London"). There Lovett tells him that his wife took poison after being raped by Turpin, who then adopted Todd's daughter Johanna as his ward ("Poor Thing"). Todd vows revenge and reopens his parlor in the flat above Mrs. Lovett's pie shop ("My Friends").

Sexual Content: Moderate
No nudity but it has alot of 18th century cleavage revealing dresses. And in one slightly disturbing scene rape is implied. You see a man in a cloak knock a women down and throw his cloak over her a a crowd stands around laughing.

Violence: Extreme
A lot of throats are slit in this movie, blood sprays from gaping wounds like fountains and then bodies are dropped through the floor sometimes resulting in a cringe worthy breaking noise or in one case a bodies landing head first resulting in a bloody scene. Add in cannibalism and you got yourself a bloody movie.

Language: Safe
Three uses of S**t and four uses of P**s


Over all: Some really great pseudo goth art work is thrown together with a mish mash of violence and catchy songs (My friends sticks out as my favorite) to create a Film about violence, cannibalism and well love. I generally liked the movie alot more my second viewing.

5 out of 10 ( good for the strong stomach but for the weak stomached should stick with a corpse bride for there Tim Burton fix)