Catchy Tunes

Rating: 7/10 (26 December 2017)

I saw "The Greatest Showman", starring Hugh Jackman-Eddie the Eagle, Deception; Michelle Williams-Manchester By the Sea, Deception; Zac Efron-Baywatch_2017, Charlie St. Cloud and Zendaya-Spider_Man:Homecoming, Shake It Up_tv.
This is a musical that is based on the life of P.T. Barnum. Hugh plays Mr Barnum, the man that invented show business. He started from nothing and using his ingenuity, ended up with the world's most famous circus. Michelle plays his wife, whose parents did have money but she didn't care about any of that. She just loved Hugh, no matter how much money he had. Ah, romance. Hugh starts out with a museum that he soon developed into his more popular circus venue that would showcase all types of people and animals, from a bearded lady to elephants, and was non-discriminatory-he didn't care what they looked like, as long as they brought in the crowds and made him money. Zendaya was one of Hugh's performers-she was a trapeze artist-and Zac was his business partner, who also just happens to like trapeze artists. The songs are written by the same songwriters as 'La La Land' so they are some mighty catchy tunes. It just takes me some getting used to, when people break into song all the time instead of just talking. And I know that there is an audience for this type of movie but I'm not a big musical fan-there are very few musicals that I did like-but if you are a fan, you will probably like this one more than I did.
It's rated "PG" for thematic elements and a brawl and has a running time of 1 hour & 45 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD-I mentioned that I'm not a big musical fan-but it would be a good rental.