"Both sharp and fleet... a satisfying screen version of Stephen Sondheim’s landmark 1979 theatrical musical."
- Todd McCarthy, Variety
"A thriller-diller from start to finish: scary, monstrously funny and melodically thrilling. And Depp is simply stupendous."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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to Right: Timothy Spall (Beadle Bamford),
Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd) and Sacha Baron Cohen (Signor Adolfo Pirelli). Photo Credit: Leah Gallo. © 2007 by DreamWorks LLC and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
Previous Sondheim works adapted into feature films were 1978's A Little Night Music
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starring Elizabeth Taylor and the 1966 A
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, starring Zero Mostel.
Neither of these films were very well received. |
Sweeney
Todd Film Trailer
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Sweeney Todd has already received an overwhelming amount of positive reviews and looks to be a major award contender.
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Sweeney
Todd Opening Credits
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Recently Overheard:
The soundtrack
is pretty complete minus the closing titles. All the underscoring is Sondheim's.
I don't mean he composed it, but it's all based on his themes with very
little of it changed from the original... All in all it's very a very well
put together soundtrack and includes much of the dialogue just as the Original
Broadway recording did."Read more of this post by Sondheim.com member notherSteve
"I'm wondering how many people are going to be seduced by this filmed Sweeney and be moved to seek out the OBC, creating, hopefully, a new generation of Sondheim fans. They will continue their journey until it ends, as it must, with "Someone in a Tree."
Read more of this post by Sondheim.com member George
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