I've never been a fan of this show, largely because I'm wholly unmoved by Pasek & Paul's score, and the movie doesn't really help, with Ben Platt being far too old for this role and not being able to garner the necessary sympathy for his character's foolish teenage impulses when he's clearly a mid-twenties adult man. I can see glimpses of what people love about it though -- I'd say two or three times throughout the movie, there's a line or a look or a gesture and I suddenly feel deeply seen. It all fades away a moment later and becomes a muddled mess again, but there are these tiny bits of brilliance, and I can see people latching onto them. Sadly, they're very much drowned out by uncomfortable casting, lackluster songs, bad editing, and a plot that ultimate doesn't say as much as it thinks it does.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Dear Evan Hansen < Sunday in the Park with George
Dear Evan Hansen > Our Idiot Brother
Dear Evan Hansen < Batman: Under the Red Hood
Dear Evan Hansen < Kiki's Delivery Service
Dear Evan Hansen > Kill List
Dear Evan Hansen > The Amazing Spider-Man
Dear Evan Hansen < Marvin's Room
Dear Evan Hansen > Captain America: Civil War
Dear Evan Hansen < SpaceCamp
Dear Evan Hansen < The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Dear Evan Hansen > 12 Days of Terror
Dear Evan Hansen < Luther
Final spot: #2437 out of 3490, or 30%.
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