Sweeney Todd and Enchanted

How does one begin to describe the beautifully crafted mind of Burton, Depp and Soundheim?

How does one compare the unrivaled joyfull, optimistic and bright minds of disney?

Last night I saw "Enchanted".

Tonight I saw the cult favorite musical put to the silver screen "Sweeney Todd"

Both films are shocks to your system in their own respects.

I'll begin with "Enchanted". Amy Adams stars in this Princess-comes-to-reality movie. Amy first got her start in 1999 in "Drop Dead Gorgeous" as Leslie, the 3rd runner up in a midwest beauty padgent. If you have not seen this film, and are a girl, I implore you to watch it as soon as humanly possible. She was also in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby". Amy has an affinity towards playing innocene and purity. The first half of this movie is hilarious in its obvious mockery of perfection and happiness. The anamated Princess Giselle floats and flutters around the screen, singing to gay little animals and is dreaming of her prince. Said prince finds her, after rescuing her from a troll. She drops in to his arms and they fall in love at first sight and she looks at him and says "it's YOU i was dreaming of!!!!" and he smiles at her excitedly, and screams "we shall be married in the morning!!" and they gallop off into the sunset with birds singing. Well, I wont ruin the rest of it for you, but Princess gets a dose of reality when she meets a real life devorce lawyer. I know this sounds corny (well, the whole movie is-but) when princess Giselle finds out a couple is going to be seperated forever and ever, by devorce, she cries, and her heart is really hurt. It's almost like seeing a kid find out when Mom and Dad dont love each other anymore. It was so raw and pure and heatfelt, worth watching just for that I think. A very optimstic and warm film. I've never left a film feeling that light and in love than that.

I am glad I didn't know the WHOLE story behind "Sweeney Todd" before I saw it. It would have completly ruined the whole effect of shock for me. This musical ran on Broadway for several years before being considered into a film. Tim Burton directs this dark little gem, and I am grateful he did. He has a powerful sense of how to portray dark and otherwise insane observations into a story. This movie is a dark comedy, if you have skin thick enough for it. Otherwise, it is a tragidy. Tragidies need to be told. They compel you to pay attention and hope for another answear. The cast is perfect, a blend of theater trained broadway kids and name hollywood actors. It is best said by johnny depp: "how practical and inappropraite!" It is a very pracial means to an end and extremely inappropriate all at the same, tradgic, time. I do hope you'll watch this dark voyage into revenge. Also I hope you'll look up the composer, Stephen Soundheim on imdb.com. He has written some of the best scores for broadway and film over the past 4 decades! and the creator of Desperat Houswives has to this date, named every one of the episodes after his works, which i thought was very cool. If you see this movie and go look and the episode list on imdb, youll see one of the best songs "Beautiful Girls" is an episode title in the first season... I found that nerdy little tidbit too interesting not to share. I found the end of this film absoultely riviting. You must see the end of this film. (talk about a falling action)

well I hope you enjoed my movie blogging. Not to worry, I did not include any spoilers!