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Sweeney Todd:Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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Sweeney Todd is a musical about a barber who is wrongly accused of a crime he didn't commit by Judge Turpin, a man who envy's the life of Benjamin Parker's.(also known as Sweeney Todd) He returns to London as a new man named Sweeney Todd and starts his journey of murdering innocent clients, after learning that his daughter and wife are gone. Todd is committed to killing Judge Turpin for transporting him, and finally ends up getting his wish. Only after Todd's friend Anthony Hope falls for his daughter Joanna, and ruins his first chance of killing Turpin. A beggar believes that Sweeney is killing people and the pie maker downstairs Mrs.Lovett is too. After slashing the beggar's throat he learns that Mrs.Lovett has been lying to him the whole time by telling him that his wife died of poison, when the beggars was actually his wife. The movie ends with Sweeney holding his dead wife in his arms and the little boy, that master has died because of Sweeney, slitting his throat.

Johnny Depp stars as Benjamin Parker who is taken away from his family and transported, and out of anger rebuilds himself into Sweeney Todd. Like many other Tim Burton films, Sweeney Todd is dark, weird, and surprisingly very entertaining. I never thought a musical about killing people would be even a keep my attention like this one did. Johnny Depp was amazing in this movie and really showed his versatility as an actor. The music is addicting, the suspense is entertaining and the characters are the kind of thing that you hate so much you end up loving it. Even though, I thought it was one of the best movies of 2007, you have to be into the musical, dark, strange, Tim Burton thing. For me, it was all about Johnny Depp. He really delivered this movie so well, and did a great job of making you feel the characters pain, and that doesn't even include his singing! I've never heard Johnny sing, and I don't think that they he should make his own record, but for a movie with a $50 million budget.
Helen Boham Carter, who is wife of Tim Burton, actually did a pretty good job also. Overall, she's not that bad of a singer, most of her songs were very catchy, upbeat, and something you'll be humming as you leave the theatre.
In the end, Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street was probably the best movie I, personally, have ever seen. I suggest you go see it.

Juno is a movie about a teenage girl who get pregnant and the journey she takes to self discovery and baby delivery. She ends up giving the baby up to a single mom who has just gone through a divorce of her "really cool" husband.

This movie,overall was really good. I liked it a lot. Michael Cera was amazing in it. Especially with those shorts he was wears through the whole movie. I loved him in Superbad and he really outshined himself in Juno. Cera, who plays the boyfriend to Juno and the father's baby daddy, was funny, smart and very cute. Although, he didn't have as much screen time as I would've liked, Michael made this movie for me. Getting to look at that cute face for 2 straight hours, and hearing that sweet voice, just makes me want to see it over and over again.
Now, lately I've heard a lot about Ellen Page, who played Juno MacGuff. I think she is a very pretty girl. Being the star she had a lot of screen time and I thought every second of it was genius. I'm not exactly sure is it was the script, or just the acting, but something about her makes me laugh. She has a great sense of humor, and she's very pretty. I just hope she wins the Golden Globe for this movie.
Jennifer Garner's last movie Catch and Release, wasn't as good as it was built up to be. After seeing that I didn't exactly know what to expect. But she was very good in this movie. Her character though was kind of bland, but I think she portrayed it well. Garner didn't really have that many funny lines, but she did have some scenes that make you want to cry. Overall, her performance was very heartwarming.
Alison Janney, well what can I say? She was amazing in Hairspray and amazing in this. I've always been a big fan of hers, and this just made my liking of hers even bigger. She was funny, smart, and had that sense of a smart ass to her. I think she gave about 50% of the humor in Juno.
Overall it was a good movie, I really liked it. The only part I could've done without was the big kiss between Michael Cera and Ellen Page. :) Just Kidding! Juno is a movie for anyone, and teaches girl the real risk of getting pregnant in a fun way!

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