Autistic Reviewers Opinion Of This Movie.

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2018)

The first and original story musical telling of the great P.T. Barnum. P.T. Barnum was always a big dreamer, from being homeless and hardly eating anything as a kid he never stopped believing in dreaming big. He lays his eyes on the most beautiful girl by the name of Charity (played by Michelle Williams) and wanted to share with her his dream and wanted her to be part of it every step of the way no matter the cost. P.T. Barnum then has the perfect idea of starting up his own show/circus and hiring different people of different talent. But what he looks for is them being different or is the low life locals in the town call them "freaks." Hugh Jackman plays P.T. Barnum extremely well, nothing Oscar Worthy, but definitely the best cast person in the film. His singing, his acting, his dancing..all very unique. The rest of the cast is fine as well..Michelle Williams is beautiful and really good at her acting and singing. Zac Efron plays Phillip Carlyle, a man who also dreams to make it big, but is very cautious of who he works with and what might ruin his career. Efron has his good moments in the film, one highlight in particular was when Efron and Jackman are drinking, singing and dancing in a bar. That was very cleverly executed and set most of the tone to the entire movie. Rebecca Ferguson plays Jenny Lind, a very jealous, spoilt, vicious yet the most perfect singing person! Her singing is definitely a highlight of the film as well.
The singing, the dancing the songs, the sets, the designs are pretty much perfect. it really can't get any better. The biggest problem with the film is that halfway into the movie we see P.T. Barnum going through a mid life crisis and stuff that could potentially ruin his career and create break up with his family, it was a very deep subject, and that we would have loved to have seen more of. It lacks so much of story depth and character development which is a shame, because it was so close to perfection! But there is one big scene in the movie where P.T. Barnum says to a vicious, miserable critic "It's not about the critics...its not aimed for you...it's aimed for audiences." That was a highlight of the film. 3/5 stars.