‘Exceptionally crafted’: why Little Shop of Horrors is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers’ favorite comfort films is a tribute to the lovably quirky 80s musical The key to a feelgood movie , beyond the necessary rewatchability, is familiarity – the real kind that lets you look away or fall asleep without doubting your affection.

Musicals are perfectly suited to this particular subgenre since the majority of them, especially the classic ones adapted for film, atrophy with second-act problems. That’s where writers suddenly remember the plot they had introduced and drop all that singing and dancing to arrive at some type of conclusion. The first act of…