The Greatest Showman – UK Region
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
Our family went to watch this movie on Christmas Eve. We hate musicals, and I hadn’t seen any previews, so I had no idea what I was getting the family into. Imagine my surprise when the previews ended and Hugh Jackman sang, “Ladies and Gents this is the moment you’ve waited for.” I cringed, and looked over at my husband. He gave me the, “You’ve gotta be kidding me! We paid $40 to see A STUPID MUSICAL!” look. I shrugged, and mouthed SORRY. We only pony up the money to see movies in theaters, maybe three times a year. If that. Frankly I was mad that we just wasted a ticket.
I sat back, and made up my mind to hate it. But truth be told, I didn’t. I liked it. We all liked, but didn’t want to admit it out loud to each other. We walked out and all agreed it was better than we thought it would be. Then a funny thing happened. We all kept singing the songs. So… we bought the album. After listening to the songs over and over, we all agreed we needed to go see it again. We loved it, and all agreed it was an awesome movie.-
Dawns Early Light
Like Johnny Appleseed, Annie Oakley, and possibly Harry Houdini, P.T. Barnum has become less a figure of history than a giant of American popular folklore. And since Barnum himself never pretended to possess more than a passing relationship with the truth, it’s richly appropriate that “The Greatest Showman,” the new movie which uses as its foundation the life of the father of the circus, does not even bother to use the usual opening gambit, “based on a true story.” Because it rarely is.
Instead, before the opening credits even hit the screen the movie throws the audience by the seat of its pants into the most foot-stomping, pulse-pounding, show-stopping entertainment since the circus came to town. The picture grabs the viewer by his nose and doesn’t let go from the first frame of film until the last. And after the show is over, the viewer leaves with a song in his heart, a smile on his face, a spring in his step, and a tear in his eye.
“The Greatest Showman” follows the tried-and-true formula of Horatio Alger and dozens of motion pictures biographies, from “Rhapsody in Blue” to “Night and Day” to “Yankee Doodle Dandy”: Through hard work and dedication, the hero rises from poverty to the pinnacle of success, falters for a moment, and then through faith and love achieves an even more lofty and soul-satisfying conclusion.
But “The Greatest Showman” continues the hallowed entertainment tradition to the beat of a percussive and pounding drum-driven hip-hop tempo of street music, accompanied by the most jaw-dropping breakdance moves you’ll ever see in an ensemble performance.
During the opening scene the world explodes into a panorama of vivid colors embracing in its entirety the world of the circus—flying acrobats, prancing horses, fire-breathers, elephants, and clowns. When the song ends, it’s all you can do to stop yourself from jumping to your feet to applaud. And then the movie tops itself, over and over and over again.
Anyone who’s seen Hugh Jackman appearing on an interview show—and he’s doing a lot of them in support of this movie—knows that his signature role as the caustic and violent Wolverine in eight “X-Men” movies are the real stretch for the actor.
– Carl Schultz
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya
Directors: Michael Gracey
Writers: Jenny Bicks, Bill Condon
Producers: Peter Chernin, Laurence Mark, Jenno Topping
Format: PAL
Language: English
Region: Region 2
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 – 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: PG
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: 14 May 2018
Run Time: 105 minutes
ASIN: B077Y87PPF
