Music Monday: The Greatest Showman

Happy Labor Day!

Today I'm doing the Music Monday linkup over at Lauren's blog. Lately I've caught myself humming "A Million Dreams" from The Greatest Showman. That seemed like a good song to share, along with a (brief) discussion of the movie.

First, the song:

This is my favorite song from The Greatest Showman. Enjoy!

Now for a Very Important Question: do you like this movie??

Because I don't.

I love the songs! I will happily listen to them all day long! But the movie itself was not worth the twenty dollars I spent on it.

Sorry, Hugh.

For one thing, it went waaaay too fast. It actually went so fast that I got bored. There was no character development to reel me in. My sister and I watched this together and we were talking about the characters' wants. The question, "What does this character want?" is arguably the most important one you can ask about a character. So, what does P.T. Barnum want? To be famous? To have an interesting job that will support his family? To be with Charity? And what does Charity want? Umm . . . to be in love with P.T.? This just did not work for me.

When I saw the trailer, I was so excited! I wanted to know the story behind Zac Efron and Zendaya's characters, especially. And then I watched it. And I found out that pretty much their entire relationship was in the trailer. I would even argue that the trailer was better than the movie.

And I don't think they even tried to make the movie authentic/compatible with the time period.

And I looked P.T. Barnum up on Wikipedia and he was actually a kind of horrible person.

So.

Now that I'm done ranting, please tell me what you think! Do you like The Greatest Showman? This was just my own personal little diatribe and I will not hold it against you if it's your favorite movie ever! I'm just curious!