To get straight to the point, The Greatest Showman is not quite up there with La La Land - it curiously does not hit the same level of emotional connection with the viewer - but overall it is an immensely effective and well-staged movie musical. It is a curious mix of typical Broadway narrative and musical tropes with an excellent (if anachronistic) modern score and bravura technical use of cinema that enables some pleasingly ambitious choreography in the musical numbers and some impressive transitions of time and place. The ridiculously attractive lead cast is terrific: Hugh Jackman's superb musical theatre skills are employed to the max here, Michelle Williams and Rebecca Ferguson are (as usual) magnificent whenever on screen, Zac Efron shows that he can shine when given decent material, and Zendaya again proves to be one of the breakout stars of 2017 with another engaging performance. This story is stagily but sumptuously mounted and extremely well-delivered, and Never Enough is likely to become female auditionees' new Let It Go.
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