Creepy...

I wanted to watch "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" for a while. It was hard to resist it when I saw huge posters everywhere in NYC during Christmas.

I watched it today with a couple of friends TOTALLY by accident. (One of my friends thought that it was another movie: "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story". I had no idea why I didn't find it wrong when we got the ticket. The funniest thing is that none of us found anything wrong until the movie started. LOL~~~~ That never happened in my whole life.)

Okay, about the movie, it is a well-known story about revenge. Johnny Depp did a decent job, not his best though. I like Mrs. Lovett (played by Helena Bonham Carter) better. In short, it is a movie with not-so-complicated storyline and 500 throat-cutting scenes. Like my title, I consider it creepy for mainly two reasons. First of all, it makes you want to kill the visual effect supervisor and people in charge of the props (I mean, whoever prepared the fake "blood".). The "blood" looked so "fake" that the throat-cutting scenes seemed gross instead bloody, violent, or revenging. Since there are like 500 of such scenes in the movie, how the "blood" looks will have a big overall impact. Second, there are so many actors and actresses from the Harry-Potter movie, I kept on seeing Snape, wormtail, and Bellatrix instead of Judge Turpin, Beadle Bamford, and Mrs. Lovett.

Okay, my favorite scene: when Sweeney Todd first came to Ms. Lovett's pie place, Ms. Lovett was preparing pies and serving Todd at the same time. The scene was in a extremely filthy kitten featured with a lot of flies, cockroaches, and other unmentionables. You will see those small creatures get in and out of the scene while Ms. Lovett was busy making pie crust and, of course, singing. I am extremely curious about how they shot this.

In addition, I have never had any mincemeat pie and have no idea how regularly it shows up on the dining table of the British, but I am sure that I will never eat it myself after watching this movie.

P.S. I hadn't recognize, until my friend pointed it out, that Helena Bonham Carter is the one played one of the leading female roles (Lucy) in one of my favorite movies "A room with a view".