Zendaya is amazing!

Rating: 10/10 (29 April 2020)

She is, as also noted by other critics, a true scene-stealer. The camera can't get enough of her! Incredibly beautiful and very talented. (Yes, Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron are excellent too.) Absolutely inaccurate as a biography of the true life of P.T. Barnum. He had 4 girls, not two. His museum was never called a "circus". His fortune was lost in a clock company venture, not by Jenny Lyn's concert tour, which made him a half-a-million dollars in profit. His first tent show was not in New York (city or state). A spellbinding-powerhouse of a musical from start to finish with incredible songs, production numbers, locations, set decorations, costumes, etc. Also a very financially-successful movie. Great family entertainment.
A great majority of the film is carried by the music. (If you dislike musicals as being "unrealistic" then this extravaganza is not for you. Everyone "bursts" into song.) For everyone else it is pure joy. The depiction of the oddities and performers is quite accurate and very well documented.