Got to watch Sweeney Todd, which I think was an overall fun experience. The bits that didn't quite work (for a movie) seemed to be mostly in the first half (act), while the interesting and funny bits were in the second half (act?). Maybe things started happening faster after the midway point?
Visuals were great, colors and textures and movement. Alan Rickman is, well, Alan Rickman, and you gotta love his voice, no matter what character he plays. (Oddly enough, in the last movie we saw him in (Perfume), he was also playing an overprotective father, if without the, er, unfatherly longings.)
I have to wonder whether it would've been better off onstage, the answer to which is probably yes. Musicals generally work better in the more intimate and whimsical arena of the theater, I think.
(I would have to agree that the young couple come off as plot devices, mainly. Neither of them were especially pretty, either, too bad for them.)
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