If you love the circus The Greatest Showman is the next movie you want to see.

Starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, the movie features a star-studded cast that includes Zac Efron as Phillip Carlyle, Michelle Williams as Charity Barnum, Zendaya as Anne Wheeler and Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lynd.

The movie also introduces Keala Settle, who stars as the bearded lady Lettie Lutz.

The movie was directed by Michael Gracey and released on Dec. 20. So far, the movie has accumulated $231.3 million.

The movie follows P.T. Barnum’s dream of creating a show that would attract people to different characters. It’s a circus show, with all different types of people coming and auditioning for their spot.

Barnum is faced with criticism from members of New York City protesting the show. It also doesn’t help that Barnum’s “foe” is James Gordon Bennett (played by Sam Humphrey), who writes bad reviews about the show in the New York Herald newspaper.

The movie is a musical, and its soundtrack features Golden Globe-winning original song “This is Me,” performed by Settle. Other popular tracks include “The Greatest Show,” which features the entire cast, “Rewrite the Stars,” sung by Efron and Zendaya, and “Come Alive,” performed by Jackman, Settle, Efron and Zendaya.

The movie is easily one for all ages, and 20th Century Fox even released a sing-along version of the movie to theaters. Jackman, Settle post regularly on their respective social media fan drawings, sing-alongs and costumes. The reception to The Greatest Showman has been large, with the movie drawing a dedicated fan base.

The soundtrack, as it should be mentioned, hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, and has also featured No. 1 in Australia, the United Kingdom and Scotland.

There have been different responses to the movie. Originally, it was given a 55 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Peter Travers backed up the rating, and even gave the movie a 1.5 out of 5, saying that the movie fell flat, despite the casting of musical veteran Jackman.

However, writers from the Huffington Post, Variety and the Chicago Sun-Times gave the movie positive reviews. In her review for the Huffington Post, Jackie K. Cooper wrote that the movie will leave viewers “overwhelmed by the music and magic that explode on the screen. The film has a message that should resonate with today’s world concerning acceptance and courage.”

For myself, I give the movie an 8/10 rating. The songs were memorable, and I’m not afraid to admit that I normally listen to them on the hour-long commute back to Beaver County on the weekends.

Jackman has always been one of my favorite actors, but his portrayal as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables never quite impressed me. To be fair, I couldn’t stand that entire movie, so to see Jackman as such a likable character as P.T. Barnum, singing a nice flux of songs that were meant for his range and voice, worked.

In an interview with Playbill before the movie’s release, Jackman even said that he didn’t care for the style of music in Les Misérables, but found that he liked his voice again in The Greatest Showman.

“I find it really difficult to listen to myself sing,” Jackman said. “I’ll be listening to the Broadway channel sometimes and they’ll announce me and I immediately turn it off. But with this I can actually listen to myself.”

Trust me, if you go see The Greatest Showman, you’ll love Jackman’s voice too, along with so many others.