"There is no question what DVD you should snatch up this week. It's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," writes Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers. "Directed by Tim Burton and starring his muse, Johnny Depp, the film version of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway classic is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending. Depp received an Oscar nomination as Best Actor and he deserved to win if Daniel Day-Lewis hadn't blown the category away in There Will Be Blood."
"There is no question what DVD you should snatch up this week," writes Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers. "It's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." He continues:
The Two-Disc Special Edition is that rare DVD package that actually deserves to be called "special." This is one of the best DVDs of the year, packed with juicy bonus features and showcasing sound and image that set a new gold standard. Directed by Tim Burton and starring his muse, Johnny Depp, the film version of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway classic is a bloody wonder, intimate and epic, horrific and heart-rending. Depp received an Oscar nomination as Best Actor and he deserved to win if Daniel Day-Lewis hadn't blown the category away in There Will Be Blood ... I'd place Depp along with James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy, Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady, and Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line as the best performances ever by non-singers in a musical.
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