Sweeney Todd

I found this film absolutely hilarious. I don't usually enjoy too much blood in movies, but this one was different. It reminded me of Tarantino with the extremely fake blood coming out of everywhere, absurd, absolute nonsense, brilliant. It has a parodic tone that not everybody can notice. The metaphore about the capitalism (the history of the world, my pet, is those bellow serving those up above, how gratifing for once to know that those above will serve those down bellow and it's man devouring man, my dear, and who are we to deny it in here) and the vision of the decadent and obscure London can't help but revoke to Dickens. The songs are catchy, funny and wonderfull, the visuals are great (usual fact in Burton, even though I don't quite enjoy the darkness in his films), those sepia tones contrasting with the scarlet red blood, very well achieved. The performances, one better (and darker, and funnier) than the other, Johnny Depp is certainly the best actor of his generation, even though it's not his best performance, he had a plus, which was the singing, his brilliant, flawed singing. Helena Bonham Carter once again doing the same character perfectly, with an extra dosis of comedy, she is hilarious, the funniest character in the whole movie. And the rest of the cast does an amazing job, trully great, even Rickman with his nasal singing. I believed the movie acomplished it propose, which was in part, blowing away your apetite!