I am quite annoyed that this movie has such a high rating.

I felt insulted by it's simplicity, it's lack of dialogue, and the dialogue that was there being terrible, it's lackluster character development and the incessant looping of the music. Seriously the music was like seven words just changed around throughout the entire movie. It was two hours of looping of a really bad song with a few lines of horrible dialogue sprinkled in there. The dancing was lots of spinning and arm-waving.

You get to know NO characters in the movie other than Barnum. Every other character is just filler, fodder, empty actors with no story development, who are just there to wave their arms in garish makeup.

I feel like a lot of people were just maybe fooled by the poppy, upbeat tune and the constant spinning and swirling going on that they failed to notice how bad this movie is!

The slap in the face here is that I LOVE musicals. And I hated this one.