The buzz on this cultural punching bag suggested this Broadway adaptation might be fun-bad...but no, it's just bad-bad
I feel let down. I was hoping for a fantastic disaster, a pyrotechnical display of ineptitude, an explosion of cinematic diarrhea—something truly memorable in its badness. Instead, Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of the Broadway musical about a biped awkward turtle,Advertisement
and then the frenzied pile-on when the movie premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.and the ridicule it has endured has left some Universal employees feeling “hurt and disappointed at the early response to the film,” the only thing his parents find on him is the letter addressed to Evan Hansen, which they assume their son wrote. They meet with Evan, see that Connor signed his cast , and decide that Evan must have been their dead son’s only friend. Evan tries to deny this, but since he has yet to form a spine, fails,
a speech he delivers at a memorial, and then the inevitable uncovering of his deception occurs and he has to pick up the pieces, learning a little something about...if not life than Connor, at least, in the process. This isn’t a plot, it’s a concept,
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