Oh, The Shark Bites with Few Teeth, Dear

One has to admire Kevin Spacey’s chutzpah in portraying Bobby Darin on the big screen in Beyond the Sea. And while there’s more here than chutzpah to admire—the brassy, invigorating recreations of pop standards by the John Wilson Orchestra, and the fact that Spacey does his own singing and dancing, both of them extremely well—the movie succeeds at being a memorable, lovingly made failure.