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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Toby's meat pie changes size a couple of times when he is talking to Mrs. Lovett.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of shaving cream on Turpin's face changes between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When dancing in the meat pie shop after deciding what to make the new pies out of, the cleaver Sweeney is holding changes positions behind Mrs. Lovett's back.
  
  

• Continuity: Because of the actress's real life pregnancy and filming out of order, Mrs. Lovett's chest size varies greatly throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Lovett is singing "The Worst Pies in London", she goes over and stirs a huge bowl of mixture on the counter. In following shots as she dances back and forth from the counter, the position of the spoon in the bowl changes and the mixture also differs in appearance.
  
  
• Continuity: During the final scene the dried blood keeps on moving on Sweeney's face.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At Mrs. Lovetts grand re-opening, a man is shown walking half way up the stairs to Sweeney Todd's parlor and, after a 10 or so second sequence, he is shown again on the same step.
  
  
• Continuity: Johanna is seen packing stuff neatly into a suitcase , she puts the last item into her suitcase neatly , but when Judge Turpin opens her door we see the item hanging over the side as if it was hastily thrown in.
  
  
• Continuity: Mrs Lovitt gives Toby a meat pie and he's nearly done eating it when she sits down and begins talking about her late husband , but in the next shot after Toby takes his wig off the pie has only a few bites taken out of it.
  
  
• Continuity: During "My Friends" the razor in Sweeney's hand goes from fully open when he first opens it to half way when he stands up, and back to fully open when he turns around. Also, his grip on it changes from fingers on the blade in the close-up to fingers on the handle only when the camera cuts to a further view.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When baby Johanna is lifted in her first scene, she clearly is wearing modern, plastic diapers.
  
  
• Continuity: During the beginning of the song 'The Worst Pies in London,' the onions stuck on the knife Mrs. Lovett sticks in the counter are on the right side of the blade, facing away from the door (and the camera view). When she returns to the counter after having Sweeney take a seat, the onions are still on the same side of the blade, but they're facing to the right of the camera view and the amount is noticeably less.
  
  
• Continuity: The pedal which Sweeney pushes to open the trap door and send the chair back switches sides of the chair throughout.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning, Sweeney's teeth appear to be in very poor shape; however, by time he first picks up the teakettle in his apartment his teeth are considerably whiter and straighter.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Toby beats the drum to attract peoples' attention on the street, the sounds are very clearly out of sync with him actually beating drum.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: If you look closely you can see that the baby that Johanna's mother is holding is really a doll.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sweeney Todd knocks Adolfo Pirelli with the teapot, he hits him upward, but Adolfo's head moves downward as if hit from above.
  
  
• Factual errors: As Sweeney is stropping the razor to polish it's edge before shaving Judge Turpin, he is going the wrong way. Depp clearly pushes the razor blade first across the leather, as if he is sharpening the blade, which would result in cutting the strop. To polish an already sharp edge, the blade is drawn back first across the leather, the complete opposite of actual sharpening, Pushing sharpens, drawing polishes, razors don't cut without a polished edge.
  
  
• Continuity: After Todd said they'd bury Pirelli in a secret place, Mrs. Lovett goes to the window and pulls back the curtain. In the next shot, we see her through the window with the curtain moved to about half its pole's length. In the shot after that, however, the curtain is fully closed and she's merely lifting a corner of it.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sweeney is cleaning his razor with the rag on his pants you can clearly see the blood, but when Turpin walks in there is no blood.
  
  
• Continuity: During the Judge's murder scene, the amount of blood on Todd's face changes with each shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Beadle beats Anthony he breaks the second to last segment of his telescoping cane, but in the next shot it appears fixed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Sweeney Todd wields a boiling teapot with two hands around the heated pot to hit Pirelli on the head. He shows no ill effects of the burn he should have incurred.
  
  
• Continuity: When Toby is in the basement at the end, he takes a very small bite from the pie, then pulls a piece of finger out of his mouth far bigger than the bite he just took. In the following shot, the bite in the pie is shown much bigger, almost big enough for the piece of finger he pulled out of his mouth.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Pirelli pulls out an Italian flag, it is the current type - tricolor. Not the pre-1946 flag which had a coat of arms on the white bar.
  
  
• Continuity: Every time he pushes the chair pedal the chair tips and then dumps the body, but in the last scenes when he kills the girl on the trap door he pushes the pedal for it to open, but the chair doesn't tilt.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Tower Bridge which is seen in the opening scene was built in 1894. The movie is set in 1846.
  
  
• Continuity: During Todd's epiphany, the mirror in his shop is in one piece. However when he looks directly into the mirror and the camera zooms in the mirror has been cracked. It unbroken later.
  
  
• Factual errors: The razors are said by Todd to be silver, but if they were genuine silver they would have been badly tarnished after 15 years.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Sweeney refers to Mrs. Lovett as "Mrs. Lovetts" on more than one occasion during the song "Epiphany".
  
  
• Continuity: When Mrs. Lovett is singing "The Worst Pies In London" she is seen pressing on dough on her counter from behind her hand. She leans over to push on it, and the shot changes to in front of her, where she leans over to push on it again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the song Epiphany, when Sweeney Todd is walking backwards through the people, he is only imagining he's there, but when he looks down, a lady slows down and walks carefully around him.
  
  
• Continuity: During "My Friends" Sweeney's thumb changes hight on the razor between shots (between close ups and wide shots).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Sweeney Todd releases the trap door to dispose of his victims we can clearly see a slide-like duct through which they fall 2 stories down into the basement. This duct is never seen from the outside in scenes taking place in the pie-shop below, where it has to be located.
  
  
• Continuity: When Anthony goes into the blonde room to rescue Johanna there is clearly a man with dark hair sitting near the entrance.
  
  
• Continuity: During "The Contest" when Pirelli is distracted and Sweeney wins after shaving his volunteer very quickly, Sweeney lifts his razor away from the man's face and you can see that it has no cream on it all and is perfectly clean.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Todd is killing Pirelli he cuts his throat above Pirelli's Adams apple just under the chin, but you can clearly see the slice below Pirelli's Adams apple. Furthermore, as the cut is being made, you can see the blood squirting from the lower spot, while the knife is exactly below the chin.
  
  

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