DVD Review - Sweeney Todd

I'm going to start off by saying that this movie was nothing like I expected.  First, I thought perhaps there was only a couple songs and not a whole freaking musical!  Second, there was way more blood than I thought.

But you know what?  These are actually pleasant surprises.

Now, I'm not a big musical fan, so when the singing started in the first few minutes of the movie I said to myself "Oh great, what have I gotten myself in to?"  But you know what?  It's not all that bad.  In fact, the songs are really pretty good.

The story  of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is, as you might have guessed, about a barber (played by Johhny Depp) that goes a little looney.

In fact he goes right off the deep end and then some.  But in the end you actually feel sorry for him.  After all, he was wrongly imprisoned and lost his whole family because of a crooked judge, played by Alan Rickman.  Of course Mrs. Lovett, played by Helena Bonham Carter, only helps to feed Todd's blood lust.