Nellie Lovett.Īdopting the guise of Sweeney Todd, Barker returns to his old barber shop above Mrs. would also have done extremely well as Sweeney Todd at any time).From visionary filmmaker Tim Burton (“Batman,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) and starring Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Johnny Depp (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy) comes the new dramatic thriller, “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” a compelling and original vision based on the award-winning musical sensation.ĭepp stars as Benjamin Barker, a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years on the other side of the world, who escapes back to London with a vow of revenge, opposite Helena Bonham Carter as his obsessively devoted accomplice, Mrs. Scott, as a character of scant nobility who stands out as a paragon of virtue next to many of the other characters (he's the hero!) also does well in a role that could have been tailored for his dad in his earlier career (but George C. Lumley again without mental recourse to her decaying teeth? But they do their job well, and Mr. Next to this, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA is a day at the seaside! Outside the atmospherics, there are the performances, and with Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley and Campbell Scott doing the honors, we are in good hands, even though one might not really wish to remember the first two as characters of this much reprehensibility. And there is a sense of pure horror that pervades just about every scene and location that is quite outside the secret horror that is going on thanks to Mr.

Lovett's pie emporium (well, we have to call it something) look like denizens of Hell, and that is no exaggeration, for to a large extent that is what they are. Even the clean-cut heroine of the film is a barmaid fully capable of twisting a tough man's arm behind his back and throwing him out of the pub in which she works.

One looks at just about every scene, even those taking place a bit away from the general mayhem, and wonders how people could have brought themselves to get out of bed every morning to face another day of such filth, degradation, and mayhem. Anyway, this entire film has a claustrophobic and rather dirty atmosphere.

If this were a theatrical film, it would probably have received a few Academy Award nominations for those sets and costumes, but they are quickly forgotten (as are good performances) in most TV fare. First of all, I am not used to TV movies with production values, sets, costumes, and atmospherics on this plane. I liked this more than did most of the reviewers, but mainly for the visual aspects of the film.

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