Dark & Twisty

Can they make a good musical?  You know a musical that a man doesn't mind watching, well you know a Southern man.  Yankees are a whole different sort.  Unless they make a musical called, "Full Frontal Barely Legal Nudity Review", then the only answer is Sweeny Todd.

I have to admit I have seen film versions of this story that were not musicals and liked them.  But the Musical version from Tim Burton (always known for making pretty movies creepy or not) is a man's musical.  This is a horror movie that I can get my wife to watch because she knows all the songs and sings along with it.

Anytime that you can have singing and dancing and of course throat slitting you've got a musical.  The movie goes along the lines of the story.  Todd was framed and his wife stolen.  Todd comes back to have his revenge.  Then, he and his landlady make meat pies from corpses left from his bloody swath of seriel murder.

The song about what each person seen on the street would taste like in a pie is wonderful.  "Try a little priest."  "This one is thicker; it must be vicar."  Come on; this beats "Time Warp" anytime.

The only thing that they could do to make this movie better is to morph, the Rocky Horror Picture Show with Sweeny Todd.  They could have all the sweet transvestites being slaughtered by the demon barber of Fleet Street.