DEAR EVAN HANSEN Movie Review **SPOILER ALERT**
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2021
- Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph spoil Dear Evan Hansen - a 2021 American coming-of-age musical teen drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky from a screenplay by Steven Levenson. It is based on the 2015 stage musical of the same name by Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul.
Premise: Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the suicide of a fellow classmate.
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Cast:
Ben Platt as Evan Hansen
Amy Adams as Cynthia Murphy
Julianne Moore as Heidi Hansen
Kaitlyn Dever as Zoe Murphy
Amandla Stenberg as Alana Beck
Nik Dodani as Jared Kalwani
Danny Pino as Larry Mora
Colton Ryan as Connor Murphy
DeMarius Copes as Oliver
Liz Kate as Gemma
Isaac Cole Powell as Rhys
Avery Bederman as Isabelle
Gerald Caesar as Josh
Tommy Kane as Greg
Marvin Leon as Skye
Hadiya Eshé as Cherise
Julia Chen Myers as Naomi
Mariana Alvarez as Mrs. G.
Swift Rice as Mr. Howard
Cinematography by Brandon Trost
Music by Justin Paul and Dan Romer
Keywords: ending explained, reaction video, trailer, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wonder, Toronto International Film Festival
It's so sad, ever since he fell from that tree he thinks he’s still a 17 year old
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Who comes to these reviews in hopeful anticipation that Joseph will call someone out for being "elderly"? ....meeeeee! 🙌🏽
In the book it is revealed Connor's back story and was bisexual. It's sad that in the movie they totally ignored the book
Interesting
Interestingly, the composers Pasek and Paul initially intended this to be a darker story critical of grief performance and based on an experience of Benj Pasek had at school where everyone pretended to be friends with a person who died. The book writer, Steven Levenson, is the one who came up with this story and made Evan the “hero” despite his actions. I would have liked to see their original story but it may not have been a hit.
Yeah cause we already had heathers, but I agree, DEH should’ve definitely been a black comedy where Evan just gets eviler and eviler (I mean, Evan does get more and more unrootable to the point that it’s ridiculous that he’s basically the hero of the musical) and ends up being either severely punished or just accepts his sociopathic tendencies. We would’ve gotten a much better musical. And by a much better musical I mean a musical that isn’t bad.
Actors who are almost 30 and playing a teen is ok in theater where your 50 feet away from the actor’s face. But in film, when the cameras right in your face, you can’t pull that off. It’s so distracting and takes you out of the movie. It’s like, that actor should be cast as a high school teacher about 6 years into his career.
20:52 this is almost a middle-age man. Wtf, he's not pulling that 92010 shit like Luke and Jason at the time😂
The problem is that they didn't cast older actors for the other high schoolers. It's odd when he is the only one that looks older.
@@raaid22 Exactly. If all the high school cast looked the same age, he would have blended in. However, the film makers decided to not only cast younger looking actors, but made his hair look like an old lady perm and added so much makeup that his skin looked too smooth and almost rubbery
SCREAMING at the braids comments 😂😂 so basically...."This movie was some bullshit"
Thanks for the review, guys! I had no intention of watching this movie anyway but appreciate the way you two do what you do!! 👍🏾😘
Giiiirl, I THINK I caught Joseph saying "he's not a handsome man", but I am cackling at the beeped out speech! LOL Thank you both for the honest review, I'll avoid this film!
he said: “young and better looking”. I. AM. DECEASED. 😂
I was wondering what that was lmaoooo
The movie sounds dreadful. In the trailer, it looked like the lead actor was wearing some weird makeup that made him look even older. I think a lot of people who didn't see the musical thought it was about a gay teen. Thanks for the review and a shame you had to sit through it.
I relish everytime Joseph calls someone elderly lol
You make bad movies fun! Found you while in a wormhole. You guys are hidden gems! Keep it up!
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It's like in Brideshead Revisited: Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews were supposed to be eighteen, nineteen, twenty- year old boys. Both were _well_ into their mid-to-late late thirties!
Great review as always! Joseph, the box braids comment had me rolling! Also, it's funny that you mentioned The Greatest Showman because the songs were written by the same team.
When I finally saw this on Broadway I was completely disgusted by how out of touch the story was. He committed all types of fraud but it's okay because he's socially awkward? Give me a break!
I mean, no one said that it's okay& it's not that he's socially award; he has social anxiety. There's a difference.
@@nia.j Actually, he has anti-social personality disorder. He is predatory and a pathological liar. People with just social anxiety don't go around manipulating people and creating elaborate lies. This movie is miseducating the public on mental illness.
THANK YOU! I relatively recently got into Broadway musicals and DEH was always on my list to see because it got so many awards and people were always saying good things about it. I walk into this movie thinking this would be an adequate way to kind of experience the show and 90% of the movie was me wanting to pin Evan to the ground and punch his face repeatedly. He's such a terrible person, anxiety or no anxiety! Then through the power of the internet, I find a "slime tutorial" of the musical and while you do get additional time with certain characters and learn more things, I feel it's actually worse than the movie because Evan doesn't even do (what I thought was fine) the bare minimum to atone for his horrific actions; use the power of social media and his gift of writing to actually learn more about the true good side of Connor and give his family/the community a good memory to hold onto. In the musical, he just comes clean about exploiting a classmate's suicide for attention, a surrogate family that gives him nice things, and the girl of his dreams and...people are just slightly miffed and let him go? I don't even think you could call that a slap on the wrist!
Once again, a great review. I saw the movie at an advanced screening last week. I had seen the play so I already knew the story, but it didn't translate that well on screen. Singing on a stage and then signing when the camera is all up on your face are two completely different things. I can see how those unfamiliar with it would see it as manipulative, shallow, and awkward. Unlike the movie, Evan doesn't try to redeem himself in the play. After the fallout, he accepts his fate and it ends at the orchard. I never got why so many young kids loved the play because Evan is basically the villain in the story. It's supposed to show how lying and social media are bad, but no one really learns anything at the end. Only diehard fans will probably love the movie. Also, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote the songs, also wrote the songs for The Greatest Showman and La La Land. Dear Evan Hansen came out first. So if the song style sounded familiar, now you know.
I just exited the movie and have seen the play. I think this movie is too "watered down". The tension in the movie is no where close to that portrayed in the movie. They left out the sexual tension between Evan and Zoe. The tension between Alana, Jared, and Evan was practically non-existent, the tension with his mother is downplayed. Had they not cut "Good for You" people would have under stood. Jared was no where near as funny as in the play. Very loud- mouthed, sarcastic and cynical. "Does Anyone Have a Map" sets the tone for the tension in the Murphy family and between Evan and his mother. Jared also was not gay in the musical and I guess they were too afraid of NAMBLA since they cut a portion of "Sincerely Me".other than too much make-up for Ben regardless of age, I think they did a good job with what they had. Yes, what Evan did was bad, but I did not get the feelinng of the stess Evan was under other than he cries a lot. In addition to the power of soci media, we cannot forget that teens today are medicated with anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications. They feel they can't live up to what they see on Facebook and Instagram, they are lonely, and do have feelings of suicide. That's is why it is popular among teenagers and younger adults.
I know I’m late to this review, but Ben Platt’s father was the originator of the broadway story where Ben played himself for several years where he wasn’t as old. By the time he made the movie, he wanted to keep Ben as his character in the movie, and even used a lot of CGI to make him appear younger in the movie, but failed completely. Hence, the “creepy” looking parts and scenes when he’s singing. I think they could’ve done a better job at making Ben Platt looking younger, but I am glad they kept him as the character, bc of his talent and voice in general that made the Broadway show so popular.
Where I think it failed miserably for me and how Joseph mentioned “out of touch”, is the songs vs. the story surrounding them. The songs were supposed to be deep, meaningful, relatable, all the feels, but the story surrounding the inspirational songs was terrible! This kid (Evan) basically benefited off of someone’s suicide, ran with it bc of the attention he was getting, not only from people at school, but also the attention he was getting from connor’s family (connors mom, the dad he wish he could’ve had, and especially connor’s sister who he had an extreme crush on - it’s all gross!) a sense of the type of family and things he’s never had…I mean, c’mon. It makes Evan’s character a terrible person whether or not he thought he was initially trying to help Connor’s family move on, felt pressured by Connor’s mom (Amy Adam’s), whether or not he didn’t know how viral the story would eventually become. That’s where the writing failed miserably. It’s literally like the songs were made to be beautiful, inclusive and show other people that they’re not alone in dealing with certain mental issues. Like, tf?! I basically like the movie just for the songs and not the terrible story surrounding it.
Andrew Barth Feldman should’ve been casted as Evan. I think the only reason Ben Platt got the role is because a lot of people just correlate Ben Platt with DEH so he was like an obvious pick. A wrong obvious pick.
ben IS evan.
nothing against any of the other evan's but no one can play him as well as ben. let's not act like he didn't earn the title.
@@nia.j Every Actor who plays EVAN is Evan. Using your logic, they should have just shut it down after Ben Platt left.BTW Andrew Barth Feldman was absolutely brilliant. He most assuredly embodied Evan in every way possible.
😂😂 okay
whatever you say 😂
The plot is eerily similar to the 2019 netflix show "The Politician" in which Ben Platt plays a socially awkward rich teenager who sings a lot and is in love with a closeted jock who commits suicide. Then the jock's vengeful girlfriend runs against Ben Platt for student body president and they both exploit the suicide for political gain. I would be shocked if the show wasn't crafted to capitalize on the Dear Evan Hansen Broadway hype
😳😳😳 Are you serious? Wow
The Politician was so cringey. It put me off Platt forever.
@@samadler3 same! I liked him in Pitch Perfect, never paid attention to his Broadway career. The Politician was just awful, clearly shooting for the E in EGOT
@@wellergurl yes. Go watch it
Another long review, I love it!!!
I always cringe when someone is singing to someone else.
I appreciate Joseph pointing out when people look ancient, or when people's faces are a bit too frozen.It's distracting and takes me out of the movie or show.
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Love the long reviews!
I literally watch ur videos just to watch u 2 cause u both r just awesome !!!!!
I did learn one thing from this film… Julianne Moore can’t sing. Good review though! 👍
The original story by the playwrights was specifically about the exploitation of tragedy not just suicide awareness.
Oh gosh I wish I could have experienced Joseph laughing during the serious moments w/ the tragic box braids 🤣 The play didn’t garner my interest let alone this movie. But this review is so funny I might watch to view as a dark, overdramatic comedy
Honestly whenever I feel down I come to your channel to snap out of my funk and laugh and get entertained so thank u both.. also I love the way u both describe the movies and ur honest opinions... so again thank you 😊 🙏 ☺ 😘 🙂 💕
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Honestly, I thought the thumbnail had this character playing dodgeball and losing...badly😂 Almost in a Napoleon Dynamite way lol
People keep saying, "they don't think Evan is as bad as everyone says he is" and "it's understandable that he got caught up in people pleasing". However, I strongly disagree. I can more so understand if he had just said they were friends for a short time and that was the only letter he received. Evan goes from 0 to 100 and makes a mountain of fake emails after one dinner with the family. I cannot understand how anyone trying to people please to go that far with it. Then, he completely throws the memory of Connor aside by not attending the meetings because he starts benefitting from the lie. Then after the lie is out and everything is said and done, what repercussions does Evan face? He can't go to college right away and no one talks to him at lunch. Okay, well if he hadn't lied in the first place, that's the same place he would have been in. Evan Hansen just came across as such a gross character and Ben Platt looking 30 doesn't help
That thumbnail has me nervous 😧
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From the trailer of the film I wondered if the movie would be exploitative of "suicide", and it looks like it partly was. That, along with the creepiness of Ben Platt's portrayal of a teenager, I thought very little of this movie. It was great fun watching your review though. And I appreciate the consideration of my suggestion for saying yay/nay at the beginning. Love you both.
It tried WAY to hard to be feel good which feels so grossly forced. At one point during Evan's speech, they start showing thousands of clips of people reacting to the message and it forms Connor's face. Because this memory is all a lie, it feels creepy and manipulative that they are trying to make this moment uplifting.
This review saved me 2H 17M, this is a long movie.
Who knows, maybe this was written by a Glee fan who made a serious musical
about suicide instead of a comedy. Most recent good movie can think of about characters
in high school is Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl. Great movie, especially for film lovers.
I think I will skip this one. It doesn’t matter if it’s gay boy or if a little girl who has a crush. If you are a lousy person; you are not to be the hero in the story. I sometimes enjoy musicals and sometimes I don’t. This just sounds like a story that would be frustrating. Ben Platt has a lovely voice. But, this story doesn’t interest me. I enjoy y’all’s reviews so much.
I was 50/50 on whether to watch this movie, which to date I still haven't watched it because something felt suspiciously off about this movie. But after watching your reviews, it now confirms my suspicion - it's definitely 'clickbait'! The movie's trailer portrayed this movie to be about a popular teen boy (Connor) who soon dies after befriending Evan Hansen, a socially awkward shy schoolmate. But after Connor's family and the school community mistakenly find out that Evan & Connor were close friends from a letter allegedly left behind by Connor, Evan immediately inherited the recognition & popularity of Connor. The trailer further portrayed about Evan's personal growth by learning to overcome his social awkwardness, his inability to make friends, to explore beyond his comfort zone and lastly, Evan learning to accept & love himself. Meanwhile, the movie's use of its trailer was just a form of manipulation by using clickbait methods to pull on the people's heartstrings - exactly what Joseph mentioned early in his review. I'm so glad I watched your review beforehand; thank you for same!
I am screaming at the extended bleep around 15 minutes
I have zero interest in seeing this film, the lead looks so miscast as a teenager - and its very distracting, also a little bit creepy - but I am so glad I watched this review cause I literally LMAO through most of it. Thank you for the deep belly laughs friends.So grateful.
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Great review! I think the reason the age is such a huge contention point is that he’s the only actor that actually looks out of place. Plenty of defenders of his casting try to bring up grease as an example of casting older actors but at least in Grease, EVERYONE looked old, so nobody was singled out and halfway through the movie, you forget about their ages. I understand Ben Platt was similar in age to his other actors but they at least believably looked like teenagers, he does not.
Also in grease most of the plot wasn't too questionable, just typical rom com stuff. This movie is too serious for that type of casting.
Alex Boniello who played Connor on Broadway explained pretty well the casting issue for himself as a 30 year old in entertainment "[he looks] too old to play teenagers and [he looks] too young to play a parent of a teenager". They are both I think in that weird age where they have grown out of a type and not into a new one yet.
Ben Platt was in the Broadway version and this film.
Honestly I think they should have hired someone else like Ansel Elgort or some unknown actor as Evan Hansen. I read that the film is full on nepotism since Ben Platt's famous dad Marc Platt was involved with this film
Heck cast a younger Evan from Broadway (most fans say Andrew Barth Feldman).
I adore your reviews!
Thanks for saving me from seeing this in the theatre. I’ll wait til I can watch it from home. I predict that will be a few months based on this review 😂
Well, I don't know what your review will say before the start of the show, but for the purpose of your review and my entertainment I'm going to give it thumbs up👍👍 like always😊
Lol what's the the bleeps? It was hilarious
Thanks for watching this so that I don’t have too. :)
The way I read Joseph's lips lol
I have a feeling that this movie will age very poorly...kind of like Ben Platt.
Dayum
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Well, this review was BEEEEEEEEEEEEP, it really makes me want to BEEEEEP at the Theater.
Just came from the movies. I have mixed feelings about this film. I cried, laughed at the unbelievable parts, and annoyed about the fall out. The video of Connor playing the guitar at the end was a sweet touch. The best thing about the film is this was the first time I saw a movie in the new IMAX format. Anyway the film wasn't too bad and as always love your review.
Yea any movie that makes me cry ( or intense other feelings) is a win in my book ! I loved Ben in the broadway show tho so might be pre-bias.
I liked it.
I loved this discussion!
love watching your reviews you two! Umm,... I think I will pass on this one. Thank you :)
What was bleeped out?
The book is based on the Broadway musical. The musical came first
“Generation defining”….your can’t help you face. 😂😂😂
Ben Platt is actually openly gay. So Joseph was unknowingly accurate with his gay reference at the beginning haha. Julianne Moore always delivers a solid performance.
Whats with the massive bleeped out section... can someone please explain to me what was so bad it needed to be bleeped out for like 10 secs???
Thanks for the review!. Always love them. I was not planning to watch and now I definitely will not!!
I LOVE that you are going to give the movie a thumbs up or down at the beginning now!! Brilliant! Thank you! I was watching your reviews to see what movies to go see and what to skip ... and this helps tremendously! You both are awesome!
Well...we just filmed three videos and forgot to do it, so it's going to take some getting used to.
@@fishjellyfilmreviews hahaha! Still love that someone suggested it and you are trying it!
Très intéressant. J’adore votre critiques.
What was up with the bleeping noises around 13:50...?
I probably said something crazy.
This film was pure cringe & painfully bad 🥴 So glad you guys hated it too 😂
Y’all the same writing team wrote the music for Greatest Showman. Lol
So this is the closest I'll come to watching this film. The main actor is as convincing as a teen as the cast of Grease was. Sounds out of touch and being a musical doesn't help as spontaneously breaking into song is disjointing to me anyway. And yes, God Bless Julianne Moore! Just in general! Great review--thank you!
Grease was campy and fun, so you can forgive the age issue. This movie tries to tangle a serious topic and takes itself too seriously. It's just absurd.
Whats with the censoring?
See, hear, speak no evil
I gotta know what he said.
You two are the best.
Evan looks like a senior citizen, makes it hard to believe the story. Also the exaggerated faces he does is very theatrical and awkward.
He looks like he is a senior in college 😂
The depressing part is that the girl who plays Zoe and the actor who plays Evan are actually really close in age. 😂
Time will NOT be kind to Ben Platt. He looks like he's well into his 30's.
@@blackalien6873 Ehh, I don’t know. Some people have always looked old and the older they got, the more they grew into their age. Samuel L Jackson comes to mind.
@@Sharpe1502 Not to be blunt....but black skin is very different.
If I remember correctly the book was really good
The more I hear about this movie the less sure I am how it even got made 😂 and with Amy adams!!!
...was that "young as-a-m*****f**r" 🤣 16:12...if not I have told on myself..well love the review anyway
I havent seen the film yet, but from what I’ve gathered, they didn’t show that Evan felt a lot of guilt for everything and how suicidal he truly was. I mean his letter about his day could be mistaken for a suicide letter!
The whole Connor and family thing was more of a distraction from his deep depression, and a glimpse of what he could have, and once he got a taste of that he couldn’t let it go.
”Good for you” showed all the guilt he felt for everything, but they cut that song smh
Are you saying the characters are too privileged to have mental health issues. You do know that cis gender white men are the ones who are committing suicide. And cisgender white women are the ones who are mostly committing or attempting suicides.
Oh, Ben Platt played on the politician. It was rather weird to see him sing in that show, too. And, yes, he sings great, though. He played a rich teen in the politician and already looked old in that, years ago.
I’ll see this some day … thank you. And, yes, old people always play teens, and it’s always off.
Wonder is genuinely great!
I know this video has been out a while but I think I was one of the only people in my friend group that didn't like Dear Evan Hansen. To me most of the songs (if not all) are super cheesy or corny or extremely preachy (the song You Will Be Found just really sounds like a church song to me and I hate it). That being said considering I don't like the musical I very much doubt I'll ever watch the movie
I’ve heard of the movie that’s it. Let’s do this.
Maybe you can do the stars in the beginning for those who don’t want spoilers …
That lead is one poor unfortunate soul looking like a 40 yr old man in a terrible wig and his character is a total creep extortionist liar with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Thanks for this review bc I am not watching this. Just throw the whole thing away
To start off, The Greatest Showman was NEVER on Broadway 😂 Everything you all said are problems I had with the Broadway show. And the whiteness of it as well. It seemed like he did it to get into Zoe's pants as well. I'm definitely not risking Covid-19 and wearing a mask to see this film adaptation. You guys were spot on and this was fun to watch. Also, that is the way Ben performed the songs on Broadway and it seemed ridiculous for him to perform it that way in a film. I also agree this story is clickbait. Thanks for making me laugh guys!
What do you mean by the whiteness of it?
@@lisah8438 The original cast had like one black character.
Perks was very good. Well written.
Eyeroll this movie
I saw it on stage last weekend. I don't plan to see the movie. I sat shaking my head through the whole thing. Pure trash on so many levels. I was conned by the marketing of this as inspirational and uplifting.
That dude is just creepy, however old he is 😬
The broadway musical was not based on the novel. It was the other way around.
the psychic thing is perfect. Also thank you, everyone seems so off, that you hope for a better movie....but only for a little bit. Your realize it's just bad, and expecting good. Also Ben is just not, likable, even just physically as he is acted. Ben doesn't grow, and it's sad that one thinks that just being popular is the cure for anxiety and depression.... not the therapy and medication and such that his mom has been getting for him. Hey anxious and depressed people, only when you get attention and popular will you feel better.
Lol they are gay. Omg , I got signals too and yeah lol lame. Do you think they should have expanded on their closeted natured awkwardness?
This movie wasn't that bad even though in one scene he looked like he was 40 years old. He should have relaxed his hair to look younger so it'd be softer.
I saw the musical and it was fantastic. I had also listened to the soundtrack and was aware of the premise of the show. I think it was the producers and director's fault for Ben Platt's look in the movie. A number tv and movie characters are played by actors in their 20s. I was worried that the play wouldn't translate well. It sounds like it didn't.
Manipulative character no thanks
I agree that the story just didn’t translate well to film. Too much of it was filmed via close-ups which made it feel overly awkward and over the top melodramatic. I really wish we had just gotten a Hamilton-style recording of the original cast doing the stage version.
I'd heard of this, however I didn't believe it was more than another teen drama, high school corny stereotype BS. I now see there's way more than that. I feel that the teen suicide is conducted in a cliche manner...?
The actor was 26 when he filmed the movie. There was many kids in my high school who looked much older then him. It did not bug me. I just thought the story could have been much better.
Maybe they aren't kids lol just saying😉 This actor looks old. I'm sorry.
It's World's Greatest Dad but much less interesting
He’s not a very handsome man
I think you guys might be dead inside then! Maybe because I love the broadway show but I loved it !
Yeah, that’s it.