Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Run Time: 1 Hour and 45 Minutes
Official MPAA Rating (According to IMDB.com):
G / General Audiences
PG / Parental Guidance Suggested
PG-13 / Parents Strongly Cautioned
R / Restricted
X
Not Rated
Trailer
Notable Cast
Hugh Jackman ... P.T. Barnum
Michelle Williams ... Charity Barnum
Zac Efron ... Phillip Carlyle
Zendaya ... Anne Wheeler
Rebecca Ferguson ... Jenny Lind
Austyn Johnson ... Caroline Barnum
Cameron Seely ... Helen Barnum
Keala Settle ... Lettie Lutz
Sam Humphrey ... Tom Thumb
Michelle Williams ... Charity Barnum
Zac Efron ... Phillip Carlyle
Zendaya ... Anne Wheeler
Rebecca Ferguson ... Jenny Lind
Austyn Johnson ... Caroline Barnum
Cameron Seely ... Helen Barnum
Keala Settle ... Lettie Lutz
Sam Humphrey ... Tom Thumb
Plot
All his life, P.T. Barnum has had dreams of bringing happiness to people. How can he do it? How about make the first circus. What kind of issues can come up with creating such a thing? Can he keep his business and his family together at the same time? Is this idea of a circus a good idea or even profitable?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute
waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of
something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but
could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly
amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all
around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
4/5 - *SPOILERS*
VERY good music; I have the soundtrack because it is just so catching.
Barnum should have brought his family (or at least wife) on the trip with him for Lind's tour. It would have saved him a lot of problems with Lind falling for him.
I thought that the bartender being cool with people dancing while drinking was weird but that's a cool bartender.
I was happy to see Philip saved money so to offer it up to fix the issue of no place. Philip and Anna were a cute couple and I am so glad they connected. I am surprised that the one daughter decided to go for ballet instead of the circus.
If you don't like musicals, don't watch this movie because music is a huge thing for this movie. (But Hugh Jackman has such a great singing voice. <3 And Zac Efron still does too! )
The main thing that bothered me about the movie was the fact that Barnum decided to go off alone with a single woman for her to be on tour (since he was funding her tour), leaving his wife and children at home and the circus to be run by Philip [which was also like leaving behind his 2nd family]. I mean, wouldn't you even suspect that Lind could potentially get feelings for you being in such close contact for all of that time? Have your family, or at least your wife, there so that Lind doesn't get thoughts about getting together with you, seriously.... "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" kind of thought that maybe they could get together while on the road and the wife didn't have to know about it or she could take him as hers, making him leave his wife and children. Either way, I was not pleased with Lind and the bad chances he gave her for trying to seduce him and have an affair.
Aside that, the movie is a good movie. The circus family really does bond together during the whole movie, as seen with the pain they feel when Barnum goes on the tour with Lind and prefers her over them. It also is seen when Barnum tries to make sure that everyone gets out of the burning building, even Philip. At the end, they all do come together to be the circus family that they were building and, with Philip's help from his 10% earnings, they decide to get a tent for the circus and potentially travel (this is to have less base costs and to keep safe from all the crap that people have against the "weird" circus folk).
I don't know what the real story is behind Barnum and how the first circus came to be but this is supposedly a biography. If this is really what he had to deal with, then the movie was a good representation of it. However, since I am not sure of the real story, I can at least say that this movie was a very enjoyable bit of time. I definitely recommend this for others to watch (but there is drinking, potential affair, violence, etc so if you're super sensitive, you might not want to watch). I definitely will be keeping this in my library and will be watching it multiple times again in the future.
That's my movie review. Thanks for reading! More reviews to come eventually.
VERY good music; I have the soundtrack because it is just so catching.
Barnum should have brought his family (or at least wife) on the trip with him for Lind's tour. It would have saved him a lot of problems with Lind falling for him.
I thought that the bartender being cool with people dancing while drinking was weird but that's a cool bartender.
I was happy to see Philip saved money so to offer it up to fix the issue of no place. Philip and Anna were a cute couple and I am so glad they connected. I am surprised that the one daughter decided to go for ballet instead of the circus.
If you don't like musicals, don't watch this movie because music is a huge thing for this movie. (But Hugh Jackman has such a great singing voice. <3 And Zac Efron still does too! )
The main thing that bothered me about the movie was the fact that Barnum decided to go off alone with a single woman for her to be on tour (since he was funding her tour), leaving his wife and children at home and the circus to be run by Philip [which was also like leaving behind his 2nd family]. I mean, wouldn't you even suspect that Lind could potentially get feelings for you being in such close contact for all of that time? Have your family, or at least your wife, there so that Lind doesn't get thoughts about getting together with you, seriously.... "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" kind of thought that maybe they could get together while on the road and the wife didn't have to know about it or she could take him as hers, making him leave his wife and children. Either way, I was not pleased with Lind and the bad chances he gave her for trying to seduce him and have an affair.
Aside that, the movie is a good movie. The circus family really does bond together during the whole movie, as seen with the pain they feel when Barnum goes on the tour with Lind and prefers her over them. It also is seen when Barnum tries to make sure that everyone gets out of the burning building, even Philip. At the end, they all do come together to be the circus family that they were building and, with Philip's help from his 10% earnings, they decide to get a tent for the circus and potentially travel (this is to have less base costs and to keep safe from all the crap that people have against the "weird" circus folk).
I don't know what the real story is behind Barnum and how the first circus came to be but this is supposedly a biography. If this is really what he had to deal with, then the movie was a good representation of it. However, since I am not sure of the real story, I can at least say that this movie was a very enjoyable bit of time. I definitely recommend this for others to watch (but there is drinking, potential affair, violence, etc so if you're super sensitive, you might not want to watch). I definitely will be keeping this in my library and will be watching it multiple times again in the future.
That's my movie review. Thanks for reading! More reviews to come eventually.
~ Gracie Mae DeLunac
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