Sweeney Todd ... finally

After our abbreviated showing of Sweeney Todd on Saturday, we finally got back to see the whole movie on Christmas Eve. We went with my sister-in-law and her family.

Becky and I both found that we loved the first part of the movie even more the second time around. It does drag through "Pretty Women" and the "Epiphany" but both are essential to the plot and can't be cut.

The last forty minutes of the movie are fantastic. What a thrill. Even though I knew "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" was not in the film, I still missed the reprieve at the end. There is something satisfying in the stage version when Sweeney rises from the dead to comment on his own demise. Ah well. Still a great movie. I might try to find time after the New Year to go again.

"Lift your razor high Sweeney! Hear it singing yes! Sink it in the rosy skin of righteousness!"