Everything Everywhere All At Once

Year:	2022
Country:	USA
Language:	Multilingual
Genre:	Action, Adventure, Comedy
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	5 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	Dan Kwan
	Daniel Scheinert
Selected Cast	Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang
	Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang, Jobu Tupaki
	Jamie Lee Curtis as Deirdre Beaubeirdra

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Everything Everywhere All At Once - Lionsgate - USA (2022)

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zabadak 13th Mar 2023		Review WhyNow review :read: ✔︎ Helpful Review?



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zabadak 28th Jan 2023		Review Independent review :read: ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Magic Marmalade 26th Jul 2022		Rated 10/10 Absolutely Batsht crazy brilliance! The title is apt, in that it seems to be a collage of a movie, made mostly from bits and pieces of scripts and ideas, all stitched together to make something new and highly original... ... Like, all those things which might have been rejected or culled from other movies, have all been chucked in the pot, given a stir and this gloriously weird movie came out the other end. In general, I've gotten off the "Multi-Verse" bus already, as it just seems like the latest lazy device used by Marvel and the like as a convenient way of rebooting, or prolonging a franchise and some bankable characters. Just as they used to use (and continue to use) time travel: ("Oh no, we've used up our one idea fort this character arc... quick... do-over! / reboot / time travel this franchise, so we can wring more cash out of it for another decade!") The "multi-verse" / "many worlds" idea, just the latest one movie makers have latched on to from desperate, aptly named theoretical* physicists who invent this crap as a way of plugging holes in their knowledge; Not actual science, or in any way, scientific.. But here, it's put to good use, and is very self aware of the ludicrousness of this concept, and doesn't try to sell it by taking itself too seriously. It's an idea only, used to tell a story, and make it's point, about the real story. And that real story is this probably the only time I can think of that has addressed what's going on in the real world around us right now: The growing gulf, and schism that exists, between generations, with those of previous generations (up to, and including my own) feeling like the younger generations (millennials, gen-z-ers etc.) are increasingly alien, and incomprehensible, while they themselves, increasingly feel themselves dis-inherited culturally, and socially, and falling into a nihilistic despair... the chasm, this creates leading to an inter-generational warfare of sorts... here, actually realized. As Michelle Yeoh, a mother in a family consisting of a very sweet, and optimistic husband (Short-round, from Indiana Jones!), staunch traditionalist Chinese father, and a young angst ridden gay daughter, struggles to balance these opposing forces and tensions within her family all the while, trying to keep the laundry business afloat, and deal with the taxes. So there's a strong thread here that any struggling mother will recognise too. But it's at the tax office, where it all goes completely sideways, and absolutely nuts... as, in the face of a gruff tax official (Jamie Lee Curtis, being brilliant :), her family members' consciousnesses are commandeered by other versions of themselves from other universes, in order to recruit her to help save the multi-verse from a malevolent omni-versal being, who is intent on destroying everything. It's a martial arts movie, a sci-fi, a family drama, a social and cultural commentary, and a deeply personal story of a mother and her daughter with hot-dog hands (you must see to believe!), stick on googly eyes ("Google-eyes"), weird unsettling, even disturbing events (not for kids) that ends in the middle, and then keeps going until it's finished! This is the kind of thing Philip K. Dick was great at writing... a wild apparently incomprehensible mess, from which the strongest and most powerful impression and idea is lodged in your mind, in a way more conventional writing fails to do, and for the life of you, you can't figure out how they did it. I might mention Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and the kind of movies they make, to give you an idea of what you are in for, but nothing will prepare you for this... (Russo brothers produced this - Avengers Infinity War / Endgame directors) ...But once you start watching, you will be sat riveted on the edge of your seat, open mouthed, until the end. But that's not to say it's all swirling dazzle, there's real substance, and warmth, heart, and bags of that pathos stuff. I feel have seen something refreshing, and entirely new here, in a way I haven't since Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse, which knocked me cleanout of my shoes! Although still early, it's easily the best film of the decade so far. (They'll have to go some way to bettering this in the coming years) 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 6th Apr 2022

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