The Greatest Showman

I admit I only have myself to blame. I didn’t do enough research before watching the film, so I thought it was going to be a biopic about P.T. Barnum. I had no idea it was a musical until the first song. Too bad, I’m not a fan of musicals, and while the filmmakers put together great sets and costumes, the modern music was too distracting. Overall, I felt that two stars should be enough, but eventually I decided to add another one because I appreciate the 19th century setting. (07/06/2018)

What he lacks in terms of the screenplay, he makes up for in everything else. The story is a cut-out from start to finish, held together only by the audience's tolerance and their level of personal investment in true love stories that simply pop up in an instant. But it's got such heart! With every smile or gesture from Hugh Jackman, it is clear that this is the project he was praying for, and now he is enjoying every second of it. The songs A are a category unto themselves, with not a single weak number among them, definitively making us forget the fact that all the plot twists or relationships are happening a little too much as if on wires. (04/16/2019)

The story of this film is very predictable, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a story that pulls you in. However, that's not the film's strong point - it's actually the musical numbers, which are great vocally and musically, but above all they are great visually. It's so beautiful to look at that there's not much to fault in it. (04/02/2018)

A wonderful story and one of the best musicals. The songs are very fine and thankfully not at all annoying. Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum is superb, but it's also a pleasure to see Rebecca Ferguson, whose voice brings down not only the house but my apartment, the cool Zac Efron and the gorgeous Zendaya, who is quite possibly a new discovery of beauty. I've always liked the circus environment, so I enjoyed not only the recruitment of talented people, but also the performances themselves. A very nice, moving and beautiful experience.80% (03/09/2018)

The Greatest Showman features great songs and a hardworking Hugh Jackman, but its pace makes it impossible to develop all of the themes and characters within the given runtime to make the movie work as it should. It’s as if twenty, rather important minutes had disappeared somewhere. The magical Rebecca Ferguson appears in a fantastic yet unfortunately incomplete and underused role. (01/22/2018)