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After the cheerlessness and brutality of No Country for Old Men, I’m not sure a film about a serial killer is just what you want.
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After the cheerlessness and brutality of No Country for Old Men, I’m not sure a film about a serial killer is just what you want. I may even be up to here with bloody films about bloodless people. Why not a nice film about nice people doing nice things, like crocheting for the poor? How hard can that be? True enough, Sweeney Todd is a musical, but this doesn’t exactly lighten the mood which, if you are as vigilant and smart as I am, you will spot right from the beginning when slicks of scarlet blood ooze from the opening credits. Hello, Dolly! Now that was a nice musical. Why don’t people make films like Hello, Dolly! any more? How hard can it be?
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Sean Blake
January 25th, 2008 2:58pmWhat a pathetic review. Helena Bonham Carter can act Streisand off her Todd and her singing is razor sharp.
Bea Kay
January 26th, 2008 12:32amI sense that this reviewer is attempting to be smart by rejecting the film after it received other glowing reviews. Please, if you are going to review a work, do the reader a favour and write something intelligent, or else hire a DVD of Hello Dolly and wallow in the caterwauling of the Streisand creature.