The first trailer for Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s next movie Sweeney Todd is due to hit theaters for the first time this weekend attached to prints of The Heartbreak Kid. No word on when it will be online, but I saw it tonight at a Heartbreak Kid press screening. It’s good. Weird, but good.
When you’re talking Sweeney Todd you expect weird, after all this is a movie about a barber who murders his customers and has them baked into pies while singing about it. Musicals are by definition weird, and Sweeney Todd is weirder than most. And the trailer is good, really good. Or it is until Johnny Depp gets singing. Then it gets even weirder than you’d expect. It’s not that his voice is bad, it’s just that watching Johnny Depp belting out a tune in Tim Burtin’s typically dark, dank, world simply feels incredibly wrong.
The trailer, which runs a bit more than two minutes, seems to be trying to de-emphasize the musical aspect of the film. That may be why Depp’s singing scene seems odd, since so little of the trailer is devoted to advertising the film as a musical. Or it could be that getting used to Depp doing the singing thing is simply going to take some getting used to. Either way, you’re in for a treat this weekend when the first trailer for Sweeney Todd debuts.
UPDATE! The trailer has just popped online. Watch it in various high-res formats by clicking here.
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This report has really whetted my appetite for both the trailer and the film! There has been so much speculation and discussion in recent months about Depp's singing and Burton's general approach to the whole project that it will be great to have at least a small clue as to how it's going to look and sound. This will please Sondheim, Burton and Depp fans alike.
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The first trailer for Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s next movie Sweeney Todd is due to hit theaters for the first time this weekend attached to prints of The Heartbreak Kid. No word on when it will be online, but I saw it tonight at a Heartbreak Kid press screening. It’s good. Weird, but good.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:37
This report has really whetted my appetite for both the trailer and the film! There has been so much speculation and discussion in recent months about Depp's singing and Burton's general approach to the whole project that it will be great to have at least a small clue as to how it's going to look and sound. This will please Sondheim, Burton and Depp fans alike.