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A barber shop owned by Sweeny Todd in real is the headquarters of the disturbing partnership between him and Mrs. Lovett. This story is based upon a famous Broadway musical.
2 March 1941, Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK
4 March 1981, England, UK
7 December 1979, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
21 February 1946, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
9 June 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, USA
13 March 1938, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
17 April 1968
13 October 1971, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
April 28, 2016
Revenge stories don't get a pass just because they are about revenge. If there is a genuine meaning to the legend of Benjamin Barker and what he must go through, poor Tim Burton is no closer to understanding it than his predecessors were.
October 18, 2008
As unsettling as it is riveting. Even Sondheim aficionados will see the story with fresh eyes, unless those eyes are covered.
October 18, 2008
The movie may substitute Grand Guignol for laughs at times, but it's spectacularly stylized -- each throat-slashing exceptional -- persuasively sung, and imaginatively adapted for the screen.
November 17, 2011
This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling.
May 22, 2008
It's as if Burton was born to direct it.
July 14, 2011
This magnificently realized musical from Stephen Sondheim contains the right blend of emotional pathos, stunning visuals and accessible songs.
May 27, 2011
It's gross but will it gross? Burton and Depp's cannibal musical is an especially acquired taste - Oliver! reimagined by Eli Roth. Brave, brutal... ballads?
September 30, 2014
Sweeney Todd is maybe a bit too Grand for its own good. It's all danse, no macabre.
January 02, 2015
This dark operatic movie looks like Burton meant every bit of it, that he shared this story's longing for death and night and blood.
October 05, 2010
Looks incredible, like a moving painting, but it's absolutely mediocre...
October 18, 2008
A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia.
January 29, 2008
Scissorhands was bright with eye-popping pastels that took on a sordid sheen; Sweeney has no such subtext: it's black, black, and gray, except when the screen floods blood red
