A celebration of humanity

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2018)

This is a musical biopic of PT Barnum.
Like "La La Land" it includes people who should never be in a musical. Zac Efron needed a voice cutter to sound acceptable. Hugh Jackman was hit and miss, mostly a miss. Better than Russell Crowe, but not as good as Emma Stone.
I don't know why casting directors insist on putting people with less than stellar quality voices into musicals when there is so much talent out there. However, there were good performances Keala Settle and Rebecca Ferguson. The music was uplifting and sounded as if it was uplifted from Katy Perry tunes...which would have worked better in a few instances.
The theme of the film comes out at the end which was one of diversity and equality which is why Hollywood loved it considering the age in which we live.