History YMMV / SweeneyToddtheDemonBarberofFleetStreet

** The Beggar Woman

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Mrs. Lovett, Creator/AlanRickman as Judge Turpin and Creator/TimothySpall as the Beadle.

-->''Isn't that Sweeney there beside you?''

* MostAnnoyingSound: The terrifyingly loud, shrill sound of the factory whistle.

-->''Perhaps today, you gave a nod''
-->''To Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street?''
-->''(...)''
-->''No one can help, nothing can hide you,''

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as Mrs. Lovett, Creator/AlanRickman as Judge Turpin and Creator/TimothySpall as the Beadle all by virtue of giving better performances than Creator/JohnnyDepp as Sweeney Todd.

* EarWorm: Just ''try'' to get ANY of the songs out of your head after viewing the theater or movie version. It's bloody impossible (but delightfully so).
** Beadle deedle deedle deedle deedle dumpling beadle dumpling ba deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle deedle...

** If you take a more favorable interpretation of Anthony, his part of "Johanna (Reprise)" becomes this, as it becomes a vow to Johanna, who at this point is locked away in a madhouse with God-knows-what being done to her, [[IWillFindYou that he]] ''[[DeclarationOfProtection will]]'' [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl find and rescue her]], [[{{Determinator no matter what]].

* JerkassWoobie: Mrs. Lovett, who is something of a LoveMartyr.

* MoralEventHorizon: The "Poor Thing" scene with Judge Turpin and Lucy Barker, and the scene where Mrs. Lovett [[spoiler:locks Toby in the meat-grinder basement so Sweeney can kill him]].
** It was made clear that Mrs. Lovett understood what she was doing, since she was crying throughout. Creepy.

* CompleteMonster: The corrupt [[HangingJudge Judge Turpin]], who runs a KangarooCourt in Victorian London, begins Sweeney's StartOfDarkness when, lusting after the then-younger barber's wife, Turpin has him imprisoned on a penal colony for decades of hard labor so he can seduce his wife. When she refuses, Turpin has her lured to his home under pretense of offering to free her husband--but rapes her instead, and steals her daughter as his ward. Turpin guards her jealously, having a younger sailor brutally beaten for looking at her and plans to [[WifeHusbandry marry her himself]]. When she refuses and tries to run away he sends her to an asylum where he knows she'll be mistreated. At another point, [[WouldHurtAChild Turpin sentences a little boy to death by hanging]]--and then asks his sidekick, the Beadle Bamford, if the boy was even guilty of anything.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Judge Turpin]], a corrupt HangingJudge in Victorian London, begins Sweeney's StartOfDarkness when, lusting after the then-younger barber's wife, Turpin has him imprisoned on a penal colony for decades of hard labor so he can seduce his wife. When she refuses, Turpin has her lured to his home under pretense of offering to free her husband--but rapes her instead, and steals her daughter as his ward. Turpin guards her jealously, having a younger sailor brutally beaten for looking at her and plans to [[WifeHusbandry marry her himself]]. When she refuses and tries to run away he sends her to an asylum where he knows she'll be mistreated. At another point, [[WouldHurtAChild Turpin sentences a little boy to death by hanging]]--and then asks his sidekick, the Beadle Bamford, if the boy was even guilty of anything.

* CompleteMonster: Judge Turpin is even worse than his musical counterpart. He is a corrupt HangingJudge in Victorian London and the man who begins Sweeney's start of darkness when, lusting after the then-younger barber's wife, Turpin has him imprisoned on a penal colony for decades of hard labor so he can seduce his wife. When she refuses, Turpin has her lured to his home under pretense of offering to free her husband- but rapes her instead, and steals her daughter as his ward. Turpin guards her jealously, having a younger sailor brutally beaten for ''looking'' at her and plans to marry her himself. When she refuses and tries to run away he sends her to an asylum where he knows she'll be mistreated. At another point, Turpin sentences a little boy to death by hanging...and then asks his sidekick, the Beadle Bamford, [[KangarooCourt if the boy was even guilty of anything.]]

* AwesomeMusic: The quiet interplay between Turpin and Todd in the film's arrangement of "Pretty Women," especially as it builds to that crescendo at the very end.

* MagnificentBastard: Sweeney, himself if you consider that apart from his general wit, he smartly tricked both Bamford and Judge Turpin to come to his barbershop.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The judge's sentencing of a young boy to hanging, though he is a four-time offender. The musical obviously wants to criticise [[MoralEventHorizon atrocities committed]] in the name of the law that were acceptable back then, as children were treated the same way as adults. This is noticeably shortened to one previous offense in the film to make it ''even worse''.

* DemotedToExtra: Johanna in the 2007 film version. One of the nine principal characters in the original play with a decent amount of stage and song time, Johanna is reduced to a nearly silent role in the film version and barely does ANYTHING outside of singing "Green Finch and Linnet Bird". Her other major songs and solos (Kiss Me, Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities (Quartet), City on Fire, Ah Miss (reprise)) are cut, her portion of the "Johanna" Quartet is removed entirely, she doesn't shoot Fogg in the asylum, and much of her dialogue is trimmed. In the film, she acts purely as a personality-less macguffin and a living motivation for Anthony to do anything.
** Not as bad as Johanna, but the Beggar Woman also has a much smaller role in the film. Again, this is due to the cutting of most of her singing material (specifically No Place Like London, City on Fire, and The Beggar Woman's Lullaby), the overall trimming of her scenes (her interaction with Anthony during Ah Miss cuts her "Hey, hoy, sailor boy!" line), and now she doesn't interact with Sweeney at all until [[spoiler:her death scene.]] This renders the overall twist and ending much less effective than in the original play.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: All over the place. Toby, for one. As the role is vocally demanding, adults are often cast in the part, which makes for the question of whether Toby is a kid or a mentally disabled man. For that note, the motives of the Beadle are ambiguous, whether he's a psychopath who's as bad as the judge or just a police officer who sincerely believes the judge is a good man. Then there's the matter of whether Anthony is a romantic hero who saves Johanna from the Judge or if he's a creepy stalker (though he's ''definitely'' a major step-up from Judge Turpin).

* LoveItOrHateIt: Critics, general audiences, and Sondheim, who was heavily consulted, himself love the film, but [[VocalMinority some serious fans of the stage show]] despise it. The main reason for the divide comes down to the performances, with fans of the film loving the actors in it, and haters of the film disliking the treatment of Sondheim's score, and the rather reserved performances not fitting with the main concept of Sweeney Todd as a melodrama.

* DemotedToExtra: Johanna in the 2007 film version. One of the nine principal characters in the original play with a decent amount of stage and song time, Johanna is reduced to a nearly silent role in the film version and barely does ANYTHING outside of singing "Green Finch and Linnet Bird". Her other major songs and solos (Kiss Me, Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities (Quartet), City on Fire, Ah Miss (reprise)) are cut, her portion of the "Johanna" Quartet is removed entirely, she doesn't shoot Fogg in the asylum, and much of her dialogue is trimmed. In the film, she acts purely as a personality-less macguffin and a living motivation for Anthony to do anything.
** Not as bad as Johanna, but the Beggar Woman also has a much smaller role in the film. Again, this is due to the cutting of most of her singing material (specifically No Place Like London, City on Fire, and The Beggar Woman's Lullaby), the overall trimming of her scenes (her interaction with Anthony during Ah Miss cuts her "Hey, hoy, sailor boy!" line), and now she doesn't interact with Sweeney at all until [[spoiler:her death scene.]] This renders the overall twist and ending much less effective than in the original play.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Critics, general audiences, and Sondheim, who was heavily consulted, himself love the film, but [[VocalMinority some serious fans of the stage show]] despise it. The main reason for the divide comes down to the performances, with fans of the film loving the actors in it, and haters feeling they're butchering Sondheim's score.

** Judge Turpin, of all people, gets one depending on whether his song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMA3fa-yO-k "Johanna"]] removed or not (that being said, it is so often removed [[NauseaFuel for]] [[{{Squick}} a]] [[BrainBleach good]] [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth reason]]). This song shows that he actually tried to resist the temptation Johanna was causing and even seems to imply that she was his MoralityPet. "Johanna, Johanna, I treasured you in innocence and loved you like a daughter".

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin and Timothy Spall as the Beadle all by virtue of giving better performances than Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd.