It certainly has its flaws, like a script full of clunky exposition, stretched out by fetch quests that were transparently designed to keep our heroes occupied until the grand finale.
What would otherwise be a drawn-out exposition of ballroom dancing on toe becomes a play between words and dance.
While beginners and more expert circuit benders tinkered in workshops, small bands of musicians were huddled in the corners, preparing their homemade instruments for an all-out exposition of exploded instruments.
Rather than do routine exposition, Niccol brings out the pop-fantasy element in Yuri's climb to wealth.
After scouring books about neurological disorders, he had what might be called a playwright's epiphany: "I thought, 'What a convenient device to get out exposition.' " The nuclear family of "Fuddy Meers" is typically American-neurotic; crazy and yet crazily devoted to one another.
Pages and pages of claptrap exposition are droned out by Anthony Hopkins's one-eyed dad or by Idris Elba, who stands at the gates of Asgard in a horned hat and amber contact lenses like a caretaker who's had a heavy stag night.
