Phew.

What with me going to a FREE SWITCHFOOT CONCERT and all, I have not had the chance to blog about the awesome movie I went for with K and V yesterday.....

SWEENEY TODD: DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET.

Take that J.

I saw it on big screen. (immature tongue-sticking-outting) Only RM 8.

Where do I start with the gruesomest, bloodiest, saddest yet most incredibly angry movie I've seen so far?

From the beginning of the ominous, creepy, horrifying opening title to the sweet poignancy of the love song 'Johanna', to the blood dripping all over the opening credits to the blood spewing from slit throats, this movie will make you exercise great caution the next time you eat pies and make you start taking good hard looks at men with mad hair. And barbers, o' course.

The lyrics are the best I've heard (for a musical, though there are close contenders).

Johnny Depp can sing.

Everyone in the movie can sing.

Johnny Depp can sing, act and cut throats. (not literally, o' course, just in the movie, d'oh.)

The story begins with Sweeney Todd, a man with super-mad hair and eyes that will put Jared Leto to shame with its' dark eye-rings. This is a man who have had no shampoo, sleep or toothpaste, my friends. And boy, only Mr. Depp can make it look wicked cool.

He had been framed, accused of a crime he didnt commit and packed off to prison for life; till he escaped and was picked up by sailors. He returns to London, mad for revenge with a burning rage in his eyes and a morbid tune to his songs. He had a wife once; a child, a daughter and now all he has is a crazy goth lady in love with him (Mrs. Lovett) and a severe need for a hairdresser.

He seeks the evil Judge Turpin, who had stolen his wife from him and has kept his daughter captive for 15 years. He re-opens his barber shop, and strikes an unholy and cannibalistic alliance with Mrs. Lovette, who, from making the worst pies in London, now makes the best. With meat from the plump fresh morsels of, well, HUMAN.

Ahem.

He devices a neat little machine that will deliver fresh supply to the pie-making lair of Mrs. Lovett. She gleefully serves them up and makes a tidy fortune.

Life, it seems, was a cacophony of meat pies, blood and shaving cream.

Mrs.Lovette, who has had a crush on Sweeney Todd (well, at least back when he had nice hair and was called Benjamin Barker) for like, ever, is delighted to have him around, and she does things he eventually punishes her for. (At the very end, it gets gruesomer.)

In the end, everything comes full circle and it has a tragic, bloody ending. Muahahahaha.

I've tried my best not to put any spoilers in. (the temptation, though, is great)

GO WATCH IT. THATS ALL I CAN SAY.