Incredibly Entertaining

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2018)

The Greatest Showman is a musical with all the boring bits taken out, which may be why critics weren't especially kind to it, aside from the historical inaccuracies (which I would bet they didn't know until googling after watching the movie). The cast is amazing, the songs are actually catchy, and the songs themselves actually advance the plot, something that irritates me in a lot of musicals where everything stop so a song sequence can occur.
I've been a Hugh Jackman fan since I saw him standing in the corner of that ring in the first X-Men film, and just looking back over his filmography, he has made so many good choices even outside the more mainstream films (Prisoners anyone?) and he owns this movie, dancing and singing with the best film has had to offer.
You will be singing the songs and you'll be smiling the whole time and honestly, what else do you want from a movie called The Greatest Showman?