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  Review by BRAT ★½ 15

  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

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  Review by Lucy ★ 22

  a movie about a circus and the strangest concept was michelle williams smiling and being happy the entire time

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  Review by David Sims ★★★ 15

  The worst movie I ever liked

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  Review by gaby ★★★ 12

  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 😂💯

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★½ 11

  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.

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  Review by dylan ★★★½ 4

  i, too, would fall in love with zendaya at first glance

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  Review by kai ★★★ 4

  high school musical, but make it historically inaccurate

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 6

  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…

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  Review by caro ★★★½ 5

  the prestige’s gay cousin

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  Review by kevinyang ★★★½ 28

  ...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…

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  Review by sree ★★½ 2

  this movie is complete cheese and i'm lactose intolerant

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  Review by Jay ★★★ 2

  rewrite the stars is just boneless gotta go my own way from high school musical 2