Sweeney Todd
Director:
Tim BurtonGuión:
John LoganCámara:
Dariusz WolskiMúsica:
Jake JacksonReparto:
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jayne Wisener, Ed Sanders (más)Streaming (2)
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Benjamin Barrer (Johnny Depp), un hombre encarcelado 15 años injustamente en el otro lado del mundo, escapa y vuelve a Londres con la promesa de vengarse, junto a su obsesiva y devota cómplice la Sra. Nellie Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter). Adoptando el disfraz de Sweeney Todd, Barker regresa a su antigua barbería encima del local de empanadas de carne de la Sra. Lovett, y fija sus miras en el juez Turpin (Alan Rickman) que, con la ayuda de su vil secuaz Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall), le mandaron lejos con una acusación falsa y así poder robarle a su esposa, Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly), y a su hija bebé. La Sra. Lovett le cuenta a Todd que su mujer se suicidó con veneno después de que el juez Turpin se aprovechara de ella. Pero cuando un barbero rival, el flamante italiano Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), amenaza con descubrir la verdadera identidad de Sweeney, Todd le mata cortándole la garganta. Al no saber qué hacer con el cuerpo, la Sra. Lovett ve esta circunstancia como una potencial solución para su debilitado negocio - y sugiere usar la carne humana para el relleno de sus empanadas de carne... (Warner Bros. España)
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Después de verla por segunda vez, me sigo quedando con 3*. Sweeney Todd simplemente no tiene alma, y su ingenioso final no la salva en ese sentido. La violencia aquí es fría y odiosa, carente de la poesía burtoniana de cuento de hadas (ver Sleepy Hollow). La decisión de Todd de convertirse en asesino en serie es injustificada y sin sentido. E incluso un Johnny Depp cantante no me parece la elección ideal. Los otros actores, sin embargo, fueron excelentemente elegidos y la escenografía y la música son geniales.
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Burton's aesthetic of dark sets and faded camera filters got old a long time ago. The promise of live water in the form of musical numbers, however, only adds to the overall withering in the end. Burton is absolutely inept when it comes to the singing performances, lacking any choreography or at least a hint thereof, meaning that both Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter try very unsuccessfully, even though they are otherwise really excellent. For two hours I felt a kind of unspoken reverence for the original (even Burton's right-hand man Danny Elfman is nowhere to be found), but to be honest, even Kevin Smith did better in Jersey Girl.
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The tasty meat of Burton’s previous films ground to a pulp and flavored with visual spices, which unfortunately lacks the sharpness and surprise of Tim's best films. In the middle of the first a monotonous musical, in the middle of the second finally a captivating portrait of a monster, which, in a liter of blood, sees for a moment a reflection of what it used to be. Excellent Depp and Carter. But for Burton, the film has very little content under the sharpened form. Disappointment of the year, I have no doubt. [7/10]
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I think the result would have been just as impressive without the overly explicit violence (it doesn't sit well with Burton), but otherwise I'm satisfied. Burton rocks again, with lots of his typical cynicism (here bordering on the absurd) and his unmistakable visual style, things I never get tired of. And while the music is lacking any significant melodic motif to hum along to after the film, it was a fine listen. Just like Depp's singing, which proves that you don’t need to master the range of octaves and intonation flawlessly if you have the "gift to impress" and a pleasant colour of voice, and Johnny fulfils this without fail. But the star here is someone else, the wonderful Bonham-Carter, whose cynically pragmatic Mrs Lovett was delectable.
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"Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd, his skin was pale and his eye was odd..."... thus begins the stage version of Sweeney. However, like many other songs, you won’t hear this one because it was cut from the movie. Which wouldn’t have mattered. But what Tim Burton gets up to really does matter. You couldn’t even call this copying your own ideas. But you either have to grin and bear it, or join in with his game. In terms of acting, no objections, but in terms of singing, I have a couple. I certainly wouldn’t say that Depp can’t sing (the only one I could claim that about is maybe that tragically ridiculous Spall). He proved on a few occasions that he can handle that discipline too. But the problem is that the role of the close-shaving barber is considered in musical circles to be the most difficult of all. And it can be painfully visible in the result, like it or not. Sometimes it shows a lot. Especially if you have ever seen a professional production of Sweeney. The tragedy of this character lies in the fact that he stands at the beginning of the autumn of his life. Unfortunately, the “whippersnapper" Depp can’t act this convincingly. And that applies to the entire cast, in fact. With the exception of Helena Bonham Carter and some supporting roles. Thanks to insensitive cutting, at the beginning it is a little disjointed, about nothing and almost boring. A change in the wind in favor of quality starts around the song Epiphany about half way through. Then the final twenty minutes drag the musical Burton back into the waters of solid above-average. Only just, but he’s there.
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