Young Sammy Fabelman is taken to the cinema by his parents to see 'The Greatest show on Earth,' the film has a major impact on him, and inspires him to take up film making, a deep family secret threatens to end his dream.
I wanted to love this movie, I really did, but I just found it too slow and long, overall it's not bad, a nice movie. As always I'll start with the positives, how nice to see a film that isn't action packed, with tonnes of CGI, villains and explosions, this is an engaging story, a sunday afternoon movie to curl up on the sofa to.
The acting is excellent, Dano and Williams are excellent, sincere performances, Seth Rogen is pretty good too, he's surprising me as he's maturing.
The downside, it's way too long, I fell asleep twice, and had to rewind back, it needed to be shorter, as there's nothing punchy happening, it's hard to remain focused, there's measured, and then there's slow, this was definitely more towards the latter.
Not sure I'd watch it again, but glad I did.
6/10.
I wanted to love this movie, I really did, but I just found it too slow and long, overall it's not bad, a nice movie. As always I'll start with the positives, how nice to see a film that isn't action packed, with tonnes of CGI, villains and explosions, this is an engaging story, a sunday afternoon movie to curl up on the sofa to.
The acting is excellent, Dano and Williams are excellent, sincere performances, Seth Rogen is pretty good too, he's surprising me as he's maturing.
The downside, it's way too long, I fell asleep twice, and had to rewind back, it needed to be shorter, as there's nothing punchy happening, it's hard to remain focused, there's measured, and then there's slow, this was definitely more towards the latter.
Not sure I'd watch it again, but glad I did.
6/10.