This Movie Shows Up Many: Greatest Musical In Some Time

Rating: 9/10 (24 December 2017)

LIKES:
-Exciting Pace
-The Acting
-The Messages
-The Numbers/Soundtrack
DISLIKES:
-More Connectivity/Expanded Story
-CGI Work
-Hollywood glamour
SUMMARY: When it comes to the Greatest Showman, words cannot describe how incredible this movie is. Filled to the brim with energy, this movie will keep you engaged the entire time with its fantastic balance of story, characters, and special effects, this movie certainly breathes life back into the musical movie genre. The storytelling through song is a hard art to master, but this movie blows it out of the water with the magical numbers they have developed. Not only are the numbers crafted in amazing detail, imbued with energy and special effects that are worthy of representing the circus in all its oddness. Outside of the superficial aspects, the songs tell the stories and feelings of the characters, a different angle compared to the other movies I saw this week. This film's ability to illicit feelings is almost unstoppable, and one will go up and down on an emotional roller coaster that not only pulls at your heart strings, but inspires and motivates to change their way of thinking when it comes to looking at humans.
The weaknesses are minor, mostly wanting more to come out of this work of art, primarily in expanding the story of the characters and connecting the plots a little better to make them less like isolated events and more of a whole story. In addition, seeing the other characters get more expansion would have been nice as well. Outside of a little Hollywood glamour and CGI improvements, I don't have much that can be improved on this movie given the genres it's classified in. This movie was the champion of the holiday season, and a fantastic thrill for any and all families who aren't scared of the Circus and who especially want a true, inspirational musical. So of the movies, this one gets high regards for going to see in the theater, perhaps twice if you had as much fun as I did.
My scores are:
Biography/Drama/Musical: 9.5
Movie Overall: 9.0