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- “The Greatest Showman,” a montage sequence that occasionally turns into a movie musical, steers clear of any contemporary resonance and ignores meaty themes. The first-time director Michael Gracey achieves an aggressively synthetic style through kinetic editing and tidy underdog stories, but none of the true joy of pulling a fast one.
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Caspar Salmon. Wed 31 Jan 2018 04.17 EST. Take a bona fide Broadway star, put them in a stodgy ahistorical musical, with a credible co-star gamely slumming it in a secondary role, and what do you...
- The True Story Behind the Making of the Movie. Allegedly, Hugh Jackman saw Keala Settle (The Bearded Lady) performing in a Broadway Play and almost immediately knew that she needed to be a part of his show.
- Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman is not mortal. He can’t be. There’s no way the guy that made us fear him in Logan is the same guy who made us love him when he gave his daughter a wishing machine.
- It Teaches A Good (Albeit Fictitious) Moral. Okay, full disclosure: in real life, PT Barnum probably never ‘learned his lesson’ and the people who made up his “freak show” probably never felt super empowered.
- You Care About Every Character. It would have been easy for filmmakers to skirt over the “oddities” that were a part of Barnum’s circus. But, as it turned out, the oddities were the most interesting people in the movie!
The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American biographical musical drama film directed by Michael Gracey (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, and a story by Bicks. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya.
- $84 million
Dec 20, 2017 · “The Greatest Showman” is a good old-fashioned cornball PG musical that is also a scintillatingly flashy — and woke! — immersion in up-to-the-minute razzmatazz.
Dec 20, 2017 · Verdict. The Greatest Showman is wildly entertaining even when it’s spectacularly false, which is a lot of the time. But everyone is enjoying themselves on-screen, so you might as well enjoy...
- William Bibbiani
Mar 9, 2018 · Three months after its release, The Greatest Showman — a flashy movie musical starring Hugh Jackman as a sanitized version of P.T. Barnum — is one of the most successful box office hits of...
Dec 20, 2017 · The Greatest Showman tries hard to dazzle the audience with a Barnum-style sense of wonder -- but at the expense of its complex subject's far more intriguing real-life story. Read Critics...
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- Musical, Biography, History, Drama
- PG
