Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 13 Mar 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

Obscene on a par with its presumptuousness. What good is a musical when the music has been replaced by power hits identical to each other and rejects even for Disney family movies? What is the use of displaying the Radiohead poster when they too have replaced, in the turn of the millennium, guitars with synths and the band with solo careers? What is the use of listing any form of diversity dear to SJWs? Why such a horrible miscasting? Julianne Moore is 60 years old, the age for roles as a grandmother, not as a mother, Amy Adams is at least 10 kilos overweight, Kaitlyn Dever is not credible as a charming girl, Ben Platt's fragility is of a unique dislike. The adolescent discomfort was extraordinarily described by Van Sant in his "Trilogy of Death", long before Chazelle who is as much overrated as Chbosky.