Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.(Movie review)

The Christian Century | February 12, 2008| | Copyright

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

Unlikely as it sounds, director Tim Burton missed all the jokes in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The origins of the celebrated 1979 musical, written by Stephen Sondheim in collaboration with Hugh Wheeler, lie in the vaudeville-style English music hall tradition and in 19th-century penny dreadfuls. The outrageous puns are still present in the duet "A Little Priest," in which the pragmatic Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter) schemes ...

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