Fantastic and one of the best musicals that has such a powerful emotional story.

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2018)

The Greatest Showman surpassed my expectations for a musical historical drama film. Definitely, one of the best films of the year. It has everything you can expect in a musical. The plot is emotional and beautiful at the same time, the musical set pieces are fantastic and the songs are just beautiful. The cast were all great with there characters. I enjoyed every minute of the film. It nearly has everything and an inspirational love story that will make you have tears and smile in the end.
The plot follows P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), who was once a tailor's boy and struggled throughout his childhood with providing food for his father. He fell in love with his childhood sweetheart Charity (Michelle Williams). They grew up and married and had kids. His work goes bankrupt with him having the struggle to afford a roof over his family. He decides to open a circus with extraordinary people. He inspires them to join, that they should not be afraid to hide their appearances. It does create a crowd outrage, when people who are judgmental disapprove of there show starts backfirin. P.T. will need the help from a famous singer to help draw the crowd in. But when it will be too much when P.T. loses himself from the greed of one than being part of a bigger family.
What I liked about the film is everything about it. It has a beautiful love story. P.T. struggles to build himself and able to support his family. By struggling to bring in a crowd to his shows to earning enough to buy Charity's family estate home. He puts a team together that will eventually be one big family. He brings in a lost actor Phillip (Zac Efron) to his circus family where he falls for Anne (Zendaya), which would create a backlash from the judgmental public about their race and relationship. It is a cute heartwarming love story, were one gives it all up for their love ones.
The musical set pieces are just astonishing. The music soundtrack was great. Every cast did well with there singing. Even if it was recorded at the studio and lip sync. The music was great. The Greatest Showman song was fantastic and even the rewriting the stars set piece done by Zac Efron and Zendaya was just beautiful and it was really hard to take your eyes off the screen from this sequence. I am not a huge fan of musicals since it eventually falls flat or there are some songs that gets boring. Not The Greatest Showman. Every song was great, even when some songs are done again. It was great and it worked with the story and characters in the film. It was never boring. Hugh Jackman was amazing. Zac Efron did great. Michelle Williams was good. Zendaya is beautiful and her character did great.
Overall, The Greatest Showman is such a great film. Every musical song was amazing. It delivers emotions and joy when watching these characters. The plot was a beautiful inspirational love story. It was always entertaining and fun to watch with the cast ensemble.
I recommend seeing the film in theatres for its beautiful fantastic musical set pieces. Even if you are not a musical fan or are. You may enjoy this film.
I rate the film 5 out of 5 stars.