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The Greatest Showman

2017 Directed by Michael Gracey

The Impossible Comes True

The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Hugh Jackman Michelle Williams Zac Efron Zendaya Rebecca Ferguson Keala Settle Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Paul Sparks Sam Humphrey Austyn Johnson Cameron Seely Eric Anderson Ellis Rubin Skylar Dunn Fredric Lehne Kathryn Meisle Daniel Everidge Radu Spinghel Yusaku Komori Danial Son Will Swenson Linda Marie Larson Byron Jennings Betsy Aidem Damian Young Tina Benko Gayle Rankin Arnie Burton Natasha Liu Bordizzo Show All…

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Review by Lucy ★ 16

a movie about a circus and the strangest concept was michelle williams smiling and being happy the entire time
Review by David Sims ★★★ 10

The worst movie I ever liked
Review by brat pitt ★½ 10

the scene in the beginning where young hugh jackman gets away with stealing bread proves that this is an alternate timeline where jean valjean starts a circus instead of going to prison for 19 years, finding god, and becoming the mayor of a little french town
Review by gaby ★★★ 7

me: uh yeah so the film has a pretty weak script and uses extravagant musical numbers to cover up that the plot is pretty incoherent and also there’s at least 16 technical issues which is 16 too many for my pretentious ass

also me: LOOK OUT 👀👀 CAUSE HERE I COME 😩✨ AND I’M MARCHING 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ TO THE BEAT I DRUM 😜🥁 I’M NOT SCARED 😎😤🚫 TO BE SEEN 😱👁 I MAKE NO APOLOGIES 😘👊🏼 THIS IS ME 😂💯
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 4

Ignore the vintage 20th Century Fox logo that appears on screen at the start of the film, “The Greatest Showman” is nothing if not a uniquely 21st century spectacle, a gaudy sonic boom of musical cinema that tries to sell you on the magic of the movies like it’s Black Friday at a store that’s going out of business. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a joyfully insane experience that’s as subtle as a circus and twice as loud. Forget the multiplexes; this is a movie that feels like it was made to be screened on a Jumbotron in the middle of Times Square as a shimmering advertisement for its own existence.

Shamelessly familiar and profoundly alien in equal measure, “The…
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★ 15

the time is NOW that we stop with this heinous disrespect of zac efron. he appeals to all demographics! this thot has done 4 1/2 movie musicals, he singlehandedly dominated the comedy genre when he snot rocketed in mike & dave need wedding dates, he’s playing ted bundy soon (for the freaks), and he solved racism through song not once but twice! in both hairspray and this movie! he was also part of the “i am your mother!” snl sketch that is rumored to have inspired hereditary (2018). this man is an american treasure!

Recent reviews

Review by stolendonuts ★★★★

“This is the greatest show!”

The song and dance is so exceptional. The whole movie is definitely better than La La Land but because of how much it relies on that, and brushes past it’s deficiencies. La La Land relies more on the drama which, while better than Showman, i dont find as truly superior to every comparable film as the choreography in Showman is to every other series of dance sequences in recent memory.

This is basically in the same spirit as Moulin Rouge. I might need to rewatch that one, and Newsies, but otherwise i suspect this is the best live-action, for-screen musical since Mary Poppins.

I will say ‘never enough’ is lyically repugnant. I mean after hearing…
Review by masonhambly ★★★★½

AAfter recently watching this again... this movie is banging ! Great story well executed and the songs are awesome there’s a couple songs I’m not crazy about and that’s why it didn’t score a 5
Review by Yady Anthony Miraldy ★★★★½

Nonton 12.30, nntn yg kedua kalinya, dg kak tina, tanggal nya tepat, reviewnya lengkap menyusul
Review by JADEEVANS ★★★

I guess I won’t sleep tonight, I’ll be singing this shit in my sleep
Review by Jason ★★

I like the songs and the sets. It's fine for what it is, if you ignore the revisionist history.
Review by Yady Anthony Miraldy ★★★½

Nonton dibioskop ke 3x nya, kali ini dg vava, hova, yuni, 17.05, tanggal nya tepat, reviewnya lengkap menyusul
Review by francescoramic ★★★★★

0 to infinite... that's the proof, how the small thinks grow up. I gonna watch it 4'th time using boxxy software. Nice free app on my android.
Review by Matthew Segalla ★★★

my mom thinks this is the best movie ever... I, on the other hand, do not
Review by jul ★★★

zendaya's facial expressions had more story and character development than all of the writing in this movie