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Slim pickins that week, no joke!, but at least there’s one solid choice:

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
For some it’s Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical. For others, it’s that super-sweet scene from Jersey Girl, and now, for many, it’s the slicing and dicing Tim Burton adventure. Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) is an ex-convict who was wrongly imprisoned. After many years in a penal colony in Australia, he’s back in London as Sweeney Todd — all to get his revenge against Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), the man who sent him away and ruined Barker’s family. Teaming up with Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham

Carter), he whips up some rather rare meat pies and prepares for revenge. It’s just the sort of thing that Burton could bring to life on the big screen.

Sure, the film has the usual Burton players, but that is classic Burton material, and Depp and Bonham Carter know the score. (The same cannot be said for their singing, but sometimes, that can be forgiven.) With added helpings of Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, and Sacha Baron Cohen, it’s hard not to at least fall for the talents within the film.

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Original post by Monika Bartyzel