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I really loved the movie. I definatly wasn't expecting Sasha Baron Cohen to be so amazing! I LOOOVED Toby, too. He's so freakin' adorable! I was disappointed that "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" was cut. I also thought that "A Little Priest" was....blah. They cut out akll the best jokes! I also didn't like how Johanna had only one measley song, especially because I really liked her voice. It was a fantastic movie, but I always prefer live theatre to movies, so I naturally like the musical better.

The sheer amount of tight-pants clad men was enough to disturb anyone

who here laughed everytime someone's throat got slit????

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i found it funny when sweeney was cutting all those throats and yet he was singing about johanna. rofl it was sad when he killed lucy and then toby killed sweeney. i was like "omg" when i saw sweeney slit pirelli's throat. i was like "omg, look at all that blood." i loves this movie. heart

God I'm going to get murdered for this but....I personally got very pissed at the movie. I love Johny Depp and the women who played Mrs. Lovlett but they just don't have the voices for it. Depp's voice is to rocky and she sang to pretty. Mrs. Lovlett isn't supossed to sound pretty. Maybe its because I was brought up on the origional actors from the broadway. I give all my respect to the director for doing it so beautifully but personally, I think he should have picked actuall stage performors for the main parts. The only ones I like better was Allan Rickman as the Judge and Johanna. Oh and Beatle. But the thing is Rickman has stage experiance and you can tell by the way he acts compared to those who don't and I liked it. I do like it that they all actually sung instead of having someone else do the singing which i think is completely and totally retarded. Now back to strengthen my thing with Depp, I've seen Sweeney Todd stage three times. Once when my mother was in it (played Mrs. Lovelett) the recording of the orrigional (yay Angela Lansberry) and once in the Buel Theatre in Denver. Now admitally the man who did it in the amature production (one my mother was in) was not as good as the two others, he had more strength and emotion in his voice then Depp. Also the last time I saw it the man who played Todd almost made me cry when he sung 'And my Lucy lys in ashes' he just had so much beauty and belt and strengh in his voice. And the woman who played Mrs. Loveltt was...amazing! The strengh of her voice and the way she capivated the audiance was something that the wonam who played her in the movie did not achieve (I do feel very stupid for forgetting her name when I love her in Harry Potter). Now don't get me wrong, all those in the movie were terrific actors and I give them respect and adoration for trying something they were not used to, and I believe that it was quite good and will be on my favorites for a while, I just will always love my recording of the origional better and my memories of seeing it on stage. That is all, you can comince with wanting to murder me now.