Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Outstanding all round! The marriage of Tim Burton and Stephen Sondheim seems so obvious to me now having seen the film, but it was visionary on the part of whoever put this deal together. I also never would have guessed that Burton could sustain a full blown musical translated to film. He did an exceptional job and created an immersive universe where these characters thrive, murder and sing. The only other version of Sweeney Todd I had seen was the George Hearn/Angela Lansbury one that shows up on PBS now and then. A great 2D version but now we have a 3D edition. The cast is all terrific, the design is dark and haunting and the musical production wonderful. The scene which really highlights all of this is the number "A Little Priest." Burton's camera swings in and out of the storefront and creates a fishbowl from where they imagine the passerbys as pies. Delightful and inventive! Timothy Spall is especially entertaining as Beadle Bamford. It's as if he peeled himself from the pages of a Dickens novel.
Memorable moment: "A Little Priest"