"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet
Street" is the quintessential Tim Burton movie, even though it
springs from somebody else's celebrated mind.
Everything about Stephen Sondheim's revered musical, which
provided the inspiration for the film, seems tailor-made for the
director's sensibilities. Truly, what other filmmaker could tell the
story of a vengeful barber (Johnny Depp) who slits his customers'
throats and the lovesick baker (Helena Bonham Carter) who grinds up
the dead bodies for her meat pies?
It's strangely beautiful and beautifully strange, with horrific
subject matter that produces plenty of wicked humor and characters
who initially seem ghoulish but ultimately reveal themselves as
sympathetic and deeply sad.
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