This was the one movie this year that made me want to leave the theater!

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2017)

It could just be me and according to the reviews on this, it pretty much is. That makes so suspicious. It's literally 8's and 10's. And I'll be honest with you, it feels faked. Ya think there'd be a six somewhere around, maybe a seven. No. Just 8s and 10s, like nobody's business. I don't get it.
I loved Moulin Rouge. I love serious, musical movies. But I hated this. The songs absolutely sucked. It was like they were trying to push 21st ideals and narratives in the 19th Century, which is okay when it is in small doses, but this was like, you could replace the scenario with another character in like the 2010s.
They had the same fucking songs about "loving and believing in yourself", it made me want to clamp my ears shut and hope for sleep.
You'll like this movie, if you enjoy turning you brain completely off and look at Hugh Jackman. He was brilliant in this. He is a brilliant actor this is not unexpected for him to shine. The acting wasn't awful. It was the writing. The writing was pure garbage.
There was also the fact that this didn't feel serious at all.
Like, at all.
If you're like me, I want a serious film.
And I'll be honest, I went in here with only the crappy ads Pandora gave me which is the whole Zendaya and Zac Efron duo (by the way, Efron really shined in this movie). He did. You go Zac Efron. It turned me away from the movie at first hearing, but I took my cousin and went with my aunt to go watch this film.
This is the 18th Century with circus freaks! I wanted something more than just dances and songs, I wanted magical-feeling scenery. I didn't get that. Honestly, I didn't need a Zendaya/Efron duo. If I could just watch her ri-ribbon dance (idk what it's called) and perform more circus tricks, I would have loved it.
This movie could have really taken a darker, more serious approach with beautiful imagery and really showed a P.T. Barnum circus show. Which I don't believe is already accurate considering how different P.T. Barnum is in this film. He's supposed to be in his sixties, if you just wanted his circus career, he had a much different life than what was revealed to us.
You wouldn't know that he had four daughters and through-out his career, grew up. His wife dies in real life and he marries someone within a year!
So yeah 3 Stars: For not just mild historical inaccuracy (but extreme), crappy songs that sound very autotuned and very pop-esque, very cheesy plot that didn't seem to have a focus, and was just all over the place.
Take your kids to see it. They'll enjoy it and maybe you can convince yourself that you like it because of the three main stars, but it really isn't anything special.