Jodie Comer stars in "Stuffed," a new movie-musical from director Theo Rhys, but the film fails to live up to its promise despite her performance. The review highlights a broader cultural moment—concern over the decline of original musicals and a scarcity of great roles for rising stars—that made expectations high for the project, only for it to disappoint on both fronts.

Comer plays Araminta, an isolated taxidermist obsessed with turning a living person into one of her preserved creations, while Harry Melling plays Bernie, a lonely man drawn into her macabre plan. Co-written by Rhys and Joss Holden-Rea, who also composed the music, the film draws comparisons to "Sweeney Todd" and a notorious true-crime cannibalism case, but the reviewer describes it as an unmelodic, gross-out slog with weak lyrics that squanders Comer's talents.