Good Musical. Inaccurate History

Rating: 7/10 (14 March 2018)

I both loved and disliked this movie for completely different reasons. I loved this movie in part because it's enjoyable, entertaining and for the most part it delivers on what is promises. The songs were fun, they were catchy. The acting was pretty good. It is a feel good movie with a lot of touching scenes. However, the story is meant to be loosely based on the life of PT Barnum and the story in the movie bares little resemblance to the actual life of the real PT Barnum, whatever is based on reality is very mundane and vague that the movie producers could have easily made this film about a fictional character that had ambitions to kickstart a circus and it would have been completely fine. Most of the story here is fictional anyways and for good reason. The producers have took liberties in sugarcoating this movie from the actual exploitive nature of its history and turning it into a fun loving and for the most part family friendly musical. Gotta give them props for making a bleak and unpleasant experience joyous but nonetheless that doesn't completely eradicate the fact that this story is meant to be based on PT Barnum who isn't a very lovable character.
Anyways, just thought I'd throw this trivia out there for anyone thinking of watching this movie. For the most part this is still a good movie to watch with touching emotional scenes. I do recommend you watch it, but bear in mind that it has very little links to actual reality of what PT Barnum was like as a person.