"I will have vengeance! I will have salvation!" So laments former Fleet Street barber extraordinaire, Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, upon his London homecoming. After being forcibly exiled to Australia and wrongfully imprisoned, Todd returns 15 years later to exact revenge on those who destroyed his life and that of his wife and child. Based on the award winning musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, "Sweeney Todd" is unlike any other musical you may have seen. While it does employ classic elements of tragedy like love loss and revenge, it does so with buckets of blood. Perfect material for a collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, who previously teamed up on such works as "Corpse Bride," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and "Sleepy Hollow." Although a far cry from Broadway, this "Sweeney Todd" is rife with Dickensian imagery, throat-slashing madness, and a melancholic, magical score that is unsurprisingly, razor sharp.

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