Mmmm, meat pies
Dec. 20th, 2007 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyThe KaCSFFS movie pimpette, Conbarbie, blessed the group with a link to passes for a sneak of "Sweeney Todd." And so Rohanna, Dragonet and I trekked out to south suburbia this evening to take advantage of the opportunity, joined on site by the lovely Gay Phoenix.
Now, you have to understand that I generally do not like musicals. I am more than willing to suspend my disbelief for the wildest of science fiction speculations, but the idea that two people can be walking down an ordinary street, start singing, and be joined by hundreds of other folks pouring out of every available orifice of the surrounding buildings to recap the current plot point in song and dance, only to have said mob disappear as the last notes fall, and the characters go on as if nothing has happened–not so much. I do like some musicals: All that Jazz, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Plan Nine from Outer Space (the Musical). Just not many. So I'd never seen the source material here.
I had a great time. The story was told with skill, the songs were well-written, and the cast, particularly the two leads (Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter*), sang competently at the minimum. The gore was so over the top it just became funny after a while. Definitely a date movie. Just ask Li'l Fearless.
*Also, mmmm, Helena Bonham Carter. Would I leave Emma Thompson for her? No, that's what poly is for!
Now, you have to understand that I generally do not like musicals. I am more than willing to suspend my disbelief for the wildest of science fiction speculations, but the idea that two people can be walking down an ordinary street, start singing, and be joined by hundreds of other folks pouring out of every available orifice of the surrounding buildings to recap the current plot point in song and dance, only to have said mob disappear as the last notes fall, and the characters go on as if nothing has happened–not so much. I do like some musicals: All that Jazz, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Plan Nine from Outer Space (the Musical). Just not many. So I'd never seen the source material here.
I had a great time. The story was told with skill, the songs were well-written, and the cast, particularly the two leads (Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter*), sang competently at the minimum. The gore was so over the top it just became funny after a while. Definitely a date movie. Just ask Li'l Fearless.
*Also, mmmm, Helena Bonham Carter. Would I leave Emma Thompson for her? No, that's what poly is for!