5.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Evan Hansen, a high school student with social anxiety disorder, takes advantage of the suicide of a classmate for his own emotional gains, after accidentally letting a letter he wrote to himself be taken by the classmate, whose family mistakes it for being written by their son to Evan.
Starring: Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams, Danny PinoMusical | 100% |
Teen | 33% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Spanish: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
Digital copy
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Director Stephen Chbosky's (The Perks of Being Wallflower, Wonder) Dear Evan Hansen is based on the Tony Award-winning stage play of the same name and the book adaptation written by Steven Levenson, who also penned this film's screenplay. A story of despair, loss, hopelessness, and hope in a contemporary high school setting, Dear Evan Hansen explores the worlds of anxiety, depression, suicide, and the darkest human mental recesses through music and keen observations of the human condition.
Universal brings Dear Evan Hansen to Blu-ray with a fundamentally solid 1080p transfer. The picture hits the usual high points for a good looking, contemporarily captured, digital image. The picture is clean and efficient. It's never lacking crispness or wanting for more detail. The picture reveals environments, from high dollar homes to school hallways, from various natural exteriors to bedrooms, with practically impeccable definition and detail. Likewise, faces are tack-sharp and wonderfully revealing throughout, capturing skin details, makeup, hairs, and other characteristics with faultless definition. The picture reveals expert color reproduction, offering bright, bold primaries that are well saturated and hold to a neutral contrast. Black levels are solid, whites are crisp, skin tones are excellent, and the entire palette is dialed into, practically, perfection. The image is free of any serious source blemishes, like noise, and the encode is free of any troubling artifacts, like macroblocking. This is an A-grade Blu-ray image from Universal.
Dear Evan Hansen's Dolby Atmos soundtrack carries the film's musical numbers with delightful detail. The instrumentals are exceptionally clear and very widely engaging, offering both front side stretch as well as engaged and balanced surround activity. The height channels are not used discretely here, or elsewhere really for that matter, but the sense of seamless stage saturation within its musical bubble is very welcome. Lyrics are likewise clear and center focused, as is dialogue a product of the center channel while holding solid clarity and prioritization. The track offers some decent environmental fill, notably in school hallways and other busy locales, but these are never prominent effects, content to linger about to create an authentic background fill din.
Dear Evan Hansen includes four featurettes. A DVD copy of the film and a Movies Anywhere digital copy code are included with purchase. This
release ships with an embossed slipcover.
Dear Evan Hansen teeters on the verge of something special. It offers genuine characterization and an interesting plot, supported by a handful of solid performances, even if some of them are necessarily a bit quirky. Universal's Blu-ray is very good, delivering high yield video and audio in addition to a handful of worthwhile extras. Recommended.
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