Excellent scenes and sets and costumes strung together with lies and boring cliche nonsense.

A couple of nice moments try and alter the generic material, but the end result is the same, the same broad beats you always get in one of these feel-good poppy modern musicals.

The music is excellent and the lyrics are solid and memorable, it's just all in service of a complete lie about the fraudulent PT Barnum and the utterly rote story; I mean there's literally a song called From Now On where Barnum agrees to change his ways in the most cloying and obvious and awkward way, at least other films have the good sense to make the third act turn a little more subtle.