Saying that this movie is a terrible representation of the real P.T. Barnum is a huge understatement. It would be like if they made a movie about Robert E Lee treating his slaves like family. However, setting that aside, this movie is just bad. It's filled with tons of unintentionally funny moments that are supposed to be taken seriously. It fails to make me feel anything for these characters. I'd say the best scenes in this movie are the musical ones, and even then I only enjoyed one of these scenes out of the multiple the movie offers. The scenes themselves aren't that bad, but the music is such cold, calculated, paint-by-numbers garbage that I really can't fully enjoy any of them. The acting is pretty bad, mainly from the children and side characters. This movie did NOT "bring back the musical" and I wouldn't pay to see it again(or even at all, but I did so oh well).