Amazon.co.uk Review
It was surely only a matter of time until Tim Burton turned his dark attentions to the 19th century tale of Sweeney Todd, the cutthroat barber whose tales of murder and most grisly commerce on the streets of London became the stuff of an award winning 1979 musical. Here, a cast including longtime Burton collaborators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter--plus Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sasha Baron-Cohen-breathe new life into Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheelers musical tale with a special gothic relish for the simmering horror within. Depps accomplished, haunted "No Place Like London" sets the scene for whats to come, the nations capital introduced as a moral abyss ("There's a hole in the world like a great black pit/And the vermin of the world inhabit it"), while Bonham-Carter brings Cockney energy and a squirt of sauce to the "The Worst Pies in London". A neat comic turn, meanwhile, comes courtesy of Baron-Cohen, who plays the role of Italian barber Adolfo Pierelli-inventor of a fraudulent anti-balding lotion-with humorous gusto ("The Contest").
-Louis Pattison
Album Description
Sweeney Todd Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] a Tim Burton Film
Directed by TIM BURTON Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Screenplay by John Logan.
Based on the Musical by Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Originally Staged by Harold Prince From an Adaptation by Christopher Bond.
Deluxe Edition complete soundtrack featuring 80 Page booklet and bound slip case.