Todd is a barber who comes back from exile to find his family stolen from him by the very man who exiled him. Bitter at the world, he begins taking it out of everyone with his straight razor.
I loved the story, and i loved the look (minus the CGI), but i hated the music... and i hated the singing. The problem with musicals and Bio Pics these days is modern recording technology. They have the ability to flatten and gloss and almost robotasize everything now... and they always do. I thought Walk the Line was ruined by the recordings. This is another case. Helen Bonham Carter was the worst of all of them. You could tell they did a lot of work on hers. You couldn't make out what she was saying. It sounded like a tiny bird chirping. The first scene with her in it, she's making gross meat pies and singing this stupid song and it just killed my ears and made me uncomfortable and i eventually had to leave the room. I'll also add that i just darn right did not at all like the music. However, toward the end, i got used to it. Mostly because Depp did most of the singing. He was more tolerable because he added different intinations to his voice... kept it interesting. Not just an annoying bird chirp chirp chirping my ears off.
If you have to see it... you absolutely have to have the subtitles on because you won't understand a word they're saying.
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