Rating is misleading - 7.5

Rating: 7/10 (5 January 2018)

I really enjoyed this movie. It's a very upbeat movie with above average music. The vocals were better than La La Land, but the music behind the vocals is not. La La Land incorporated poetry and dynamics into its score, which I thought was very creative. The Greatest Showman (in my opinion) was more about vocal harmony, which is not a bad thing (just not as creative instrumentally). If you want to be entertained, I highly recommend this movie.
Here are a couple of things I didn't like:
1) The plot was very bland. There weren't a lot of up and down moments. Barnum succeeded very quickly and the main conflicts were also resolved very quickly. If you are watching to hear fun music, then this won't bother you much.
2) The singing was too voiced-over/auto-tuned for my taste. In the very beginning, the two kids start singing, and although they sound great, it bothered me a little that the vocals were so staged. Jen (the European opera singer) has a different voice actor as well, and it's hard to perfectly match mouth with voice if the singing styles are different. There are also parts when you can clearly hear auto-tuned or "pieced-together" vocals (tiny skips). However, Zendaya's singing sounded like it was barely touched. Rewrite the Stars is a very great song.
Overall, I highly recommend this movie if you want to be entertained. Don't go into it with a technical mindset. Enjoy it!