Dance and melody, mise - en - scène and movement, spectacle and logic - defying plot — these are the constituent elements of a genre with an improbably high built - in fun quotient (even material as «difficult» as Sweeney Todd has something deliriously infectious about it), and so there's no reason why our search for a toe -
tapping good time at the movies should lead us to choose the offensively bad over the competent.