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Title: In a word, "Dreadful"!
Review: Yes, Kevin Spacey was too old to play the up-and-coming Bobby Darin -- when Darin was Spacey's age, he'd already been dead eight years. Yes, the script is awful, the story-within-a-story framework strained and messy. The dancing's grotesque -- probably designed to cover for the fact that Spacey can't dance. And yes, most of the acting is cringe-inducing: Bob Hoskins and John Goodman giving tired retreads of every other performance they've ever given; Kate Bosworth -- forgeddaboutit! But the biggest problem with "Beyond the Sea" is that it shows up Darin's determination to out-croon and out-star Frank Sinatra for what it was: a succession of embarrassingly tacky recordings and live performances (with maybe one or two exceptions) supplemented by B-movie attempts at acting. In that sense, it's a homage tha backfires.
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