Hugh Jackman

Zac Efron

Michelle Williams

Rebecca Ferguson

Zendaya

Keala Settle

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Paul Sparks

Sam Humphrey

Austyn Johnson

Cameron Seely

Eric Anderson

Ellis Rubin

Skylar Dunn

Daniel Everidge

Radu Spinghel

Yusaku Komori

Danial Son

Will Swenson

Linda Marie Larson

Byron Jennings

Betsy Aidem

Damian Young

Tina Benko

Fredric Lehne

Kathryn Meisle

Timothy Hughes

Gayle Rankin

Arnie Burton

Carly Adams

Sawyer Niehaus

Shuler Hensley

Will Erat

James Andrew O'Connor

Jamie Jackson

Morgan Weed

Henry Stram

Michael Barra

Luciano Acuna Jr.

Shannon Freyer

Kevin Dwane

Sandi DeGeorge

Tony Neil Butler

Frances Emily Schramm

Kenneth Wong Chan

Stacey Alyse Cohen

Tim Wilson

Jonathon Culver

Jillian Braithwaite

Adam Haas Hunter

Bob Rumnock

Ben Reed

Martha Nichols

Jonathan Redavid

Shannon Holtzapffel

Jeremy Hudson

Taylor James

Chelsea Caso

Caoife Coleman

Mishay Petronelli

Khasan Brailsford

Alex Wong

Julius Anthony Rubio

Vincent-Olivier Noiseux

DeAnna Walters

Ilia Jessica Castro

Najla Gilliam

Christina Glur

Emerson Tate Alexander

Victoria Llodra

Louise Hindsbo

Laci Justice

GiaNina Paolantonio

Rachel Quiner

Madison Smith

Brando

Daniel 'Cloud' Campos

Rod Roberts

James Babson

Loren Allred

Brayden Titus

Jason Mello

William Cote

Zack Roberts

John Nolan

Eddie Meehan

Luke Vexler

Terrence Quinn

Bryce Biederman

Nnamdi Nwosa

Luke Lesko

Adam Wood

Drew Reade

Chad Hessler

Lauren Rockman

Sarah Dennis

Brian Burik

Luis Moco

Regina Graves

Suo Liu

Ann Bartek

Joel Chang

Andre Cerquira

Peter Wallack

Pat Barr

Nithya Shrinivasan

Katya Blumenberg

Lisa Scoppa

Bobby Beckles

Keone Kim

Dan Decelle

Peter Mills

Dave Reardon

JoAnn Atwood

Tommy Allen

Joe Taglairino

Eddie DeCurtis

Keith Stiegelbauer

Roman Greller

Janine Pesce

John M. Souto

Candis Heiland

Joseph E. Petruccio

Maceo Bishop

Abby Levine

Jack Donnelly

Sam Restivo

Brian Bowles

Alex Soto

Tom Ryan

Scott T. Coppock

Vern Malone

Natalie Turturro Mettouchi

Michael Santulli

Pamela S. Westmore

Susan Antonelli

Danielle Smith

Richard A. Zimmer

Angela Levin

Shanae Rivers

Jordan Carroll

Amy Thompson

Stayc St. Onge

Malcolm Alston

Sabrina Calley

Tim Stipan

Ryan Ferguson

Jeff Brink

Wesley Petersen

Dann Tarmy

Megan Asbee

Alex Scricco

Samson Jacobson

Matthew Hale

Brett Robinson

John Helms

Wen-Hsuan Tseng

Virginia Reilly

Don White

David Isyomin

Erin Michael Rettig

Jenna Dalla Riva

Lee J. Santillan

Eran Dinur

Ashley Lambert

Christina Shea-Wright

Johnny Batista

Jerrell Suelto

Julie Solomon

John Bair

Cliff Welsh

Derek Casari

Dann Fink

Patrick Capone

Michael Gracey

Jenny Bicks

Bill Condon

A.R. Björklund

Tony LePage

Deb Dyer

Bernard Telsey

Drama

The Greatest Showman

Chernin Entertainment

20th Century Fox

TSG Entertainment

United States of America

The critics have been really harsh on this movie. While not a great movie, it's still good enough to be enjoyed by kids during the holiday season. There are fun musical numbers and Hugh Jackman excels in his role as Barnum. It's not meant to be a realistic biopic. It's an enjoyable musical fantasy.

Pretty solid movie if you are into that kind of movies (musicals). Audio fine tuning to the songs were in fact somewhat excessive, but to my opinion the movie was meant to be viewed in theaters with loud sounds so everything "should" sound nearly perfect. The songs and dancing acts were well performed and I really liked Hugh Jackman's acting. Overall, it's a pleasant movie to watch and perhaps even worth watching twice.

Gimly

I thought that this was a terrible idea way before I ever saw the movie itself, and I thought this was a terrible movie way before I ever found out what P.T. Barnham was actually like. What a toilet fire in every sense, this is one of those rare examples where I just **can't** understand what everyone is loving here. 

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._

one of the musicals that bring you joy in life

CinemaSerf

Like many other folks, I have a sort of allergy to hype: particularly when it is built on power ballads and an actor who just doesn't "belong" in the role. I also saw Michael Crawford doing his "Barnum" thing on stage in 1982 - so to be fair, my expectations of this were not especially high. I was pleasantly surprised! Jackman as the street urchin son of an itinerant tailor with grand dreams is really pretty good. He brings oodles of charisma to the part of P.T. Barnum determined to win the love of "Charity" (Michelle Williams), despite her being from a wealthy family living well beyond his meagre means. The chronology of his actual achievements - his marriage, family and his American Museum of Curiosities morphing into a circus of all things diverse from the human race - including Sam Humphrey as "Gen. Tom Thumb" and a super Keala Settle as the "Bearded Lady" - is well enough documented and this musical version pretty much follows the rags to riches tale of this inspirational and aspirational man as he taps into the lucrative vein of giving the public what they want. That public is, however, not the one he wants - he wants the toffs, too - so enlisting the help of debonaire, bored, theatre producer Zac Efron "Philip Carlyle" they head to the UK for an audience with Queen Victoria - the epitome of "acceptable society" at which he meets Jenny Lind - the legendary Swedish singer and his fortunes seem to be unstoppable... Efron is good, too - you are reminded of just how far he has come since his "High School Musical" (2006) days; as is Rebecca Ferguson in the role of "Lind". I have to say that I found the songs a little bland; the film lacks a killer song - "A Million Dreams", "Come Alive" and "Rewrite the Stars" do get the toes tapping, but they meld into each other leaving a pleasing, but unmemorable soundtrack to this charming family drama. It's good, not great - and far better than I was expecting.