Story is way off the real P T Barnum, but.... forget about him and see the film for what it is, everyone has a fallen into the trap of trying to fit inmore than ever, especially teenagers of today watching this I find that people can enjoy who they are for a little while until they go back into phone zone! 10/10 feel good family film, music was surprisingly enjoyable!

The story of a trickster P.T Barnum The man who is behind sucess which means money.Even though he was acheiving them through various tricks of him, he didn't realize that he was really doing something worthy for all the mankind.

This is my first written review of a movie on IMDB though I'm using it few years ago. This movie is so catchy and keeps you with it all the time. The beat and musics are great and better than that the dance and the show! Just amazing! Loved the show and I would rate it 8-9! That's what it deserves. Sadly, I rated it 7. At the beginning it was going really perfect in the regards that it wasn't using, i.e. promoting the use of animals, in circus. I imagined what a great show that not a great movie let alone but also showing us that shows and circus can be great and even greater with humans only! Horses and dogs are ok cause they can adapt without being tortured. So until the last show loved it till I saw the elephants and lions in the last "greatest" show. This promotes the using of wild animals in a circus and this is really bad! We can't imagine the suffer of those poor animals! So hence I would liked to share my idea and why rated it below its deserved rating!

I'm going to make this review short and sweet. The actors here did their best to tell the story and sing the story of PT Barnum. My problem with this production is they used music from our time now (the style) for times that were happening in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Why not use period music? Totally didn't get that. Even when Jenny Lind sang... she was supposed to sing opera music...she sang a pop flavored ditty. The music did not work...at all. Acting was good and above par...but whoever figured music styles from now would fit into a story back then...