Sweeney Todd

Tonight I watched the movie Sweeney Todd. Many years ago I saw the play put on at my high school, well before I went to school there. (a bit gruesome for a high school play wouldn't you think? Obviously not for my school)

Anyway, I saw the play so therefore it was a necessity to see the movie. As wonderful as it was I will never watch it again. My love for knives is to be thanked on this one. It was obviously fake blood but I am not one to love how the story ends. I forgot how the play ended, not that I expected it to go in favor of Todd.

My feelings are that the music was okay but it could have been more creative. Each song sounded quite a bit alike and it was most obsessive and relentlessly drawn out. Furthermore, the movie ends with a dead end for the characters of Joanna and her so called love. Blood, anger and blah is what I got out of the movie. I give it two half smiles and a partial ear because the sounds was very hard to regulate between the singing and speaking parts.