Synopsis
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.
2017 Directed by Michael Gracey
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 Austyn Johnson Cameron Seely Keala Settle Sam Humphrey Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Eric Anderson Ellis Rubin Skylar Dunn Daniel Everidge Radu Spinghel Yusaku Komori Danial Son Paul Sparks Will Swenson Linda Marie Larson Byron Jennings Betsy Aidem Damian Young Tina Benko Fredric Lehne Kathryn Meisle Timothy Hughes Gayle Rankin Arnie Burton Show All…
Величайший шоумен Земли, Muhteşem Şovmen, O Grande Showman, 위대한 쇼맨
a movie about a circus and the strangest concept was michelle williams smiling and being happy the entire time
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
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 😂💯
I watched this movie while drinking heavily and by the end it beat me into submission and I cheered when Zac Efron put on a hat.
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!
there's a quick moment in the trapeze love song where zendaya sits on top of zac sexfron in the cowgirl position and she was able to keep lip syncing like a professional whereas i, a lesser woman, would have fully melted in that scenario. and for that i believe she deserves an academy award
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…
this movie is really stupid if you think about it for more than 10 seconds but zac sexfron was in it AND they did that musical thing where they cut the music and everyone claps and sings the chorus and i love having fun
...sure, why not?
Let's get the bad out of the way first:
1) P.T. Barnum was a loathsome human being and the way the film celebrates and rewrites what he did is contemptible.
2) The story is pretty weak. There's nothing wrong with a simple story, but a lot of the developments here feel inorganic. The film aggressively pushes an Efron-Zendaya romance right off the bat, but it never really coalesces into anything compelling.
3) The last act in particular features a flurry of huge plot points that occur at a hilariously rapid pace and are thus utterly nonsensical in terms of logical, meaningful story progression and development.
With all that being said:
Occasionally films come along that are so…
i liked it WAY more this time around. honestly some of the detail and filmmaking in this movie was better than i remembered. doesn't change that the plot sucks ass tho and that pt barnum's insufferable. zac efron and zendaya's subplot is pretty contrived and doesn't contribute much and honestly i hate the jenny lind arc too, but at least two absolute bops came out of them. rewrite the stars, the other side, and never enough >>>>>>>>>>>>> ngl rewrite the stars kinda got me hard this time around. something about it hurt.
3/10
(2+1)
0 bias points for the more, 2 bias points for the soundtrack, avg out to 1 bias point :DD
Script was bad BUT songs and dances are whole another world 😍 I'm gonna listen the songs on repeat. 🧡🧡🧡
Act 1 felt long and it took a sec to really get to where I wanted to be in the story but once I was there it was fun and I had a great time.
Tied with HSM for most superior musical
Update: just keep making musicals with Zac Efron honestly
If your drink three glasses of wine, this movie is very fun to watch.
If you drink wine AND are a TikTok user, it’s even MORE fun to watch.
Esse musical "sacode" os meus sonhos, as músicas são perfeitas e atores tem raiz! A mensagem dele é bem clara pra mim e em alguns momentos de desesperança eu gosto de ouvir certas músicas só pra sentir aquela sensação boa que eu senti quando assiti e ouvi as músicas pela primeira vez! O rei do show é impecável desde os figurinos até a fotografia, eu gosto muito dele!
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