Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

  • Released: 2022-03-24
  • Runtime: 139 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Molinari, Peter Banifaz, Audrey Wasilewski, Jenny Slate, Andy Le, Brian Le, Daniel Scheinert, Harry Shum Jr., Biff Wiff, Sunita Mani, Aaron Lazar, Tallie Medel, Li Jing, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom, Dylan Henry Lau, Michiko Nishiwaki, Cara Marie Chooljian, Randall Archer, Efka Kvaraciejus, Neravana Cabral, Chelsey Goldsmith, Craig Henningsen, Jason Hamer, Timothy Ralston, Hiroshi Yada, Jane Lui, Timothy Eulich, Boon Pin Koh, Li Jing, Randy Newman
  • Director: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
 Comments
  • view_and_review - 18 June 2024
    I'm Supposed to Love It
    Ah yes! An award winning movie. That means I'm supposed to like it. No, more than that-I'm supposed to be nuts about it. Well, this wouldn't be the first "award winning" movie I didn't like.

    "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (Everything) is one of those movies that uses a lot of symbolism and a long runtime to drive home its point. Ostensibly it's about a woman named Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh), her decisions, and the parallel universes each of her decisions create.

    The idea is that with every decision Evelyn made, in a parallel universe she made a different one which resulted in a different life for her. Starting from her earliest decision going forward until the fifty-something-year old she was, that would be millions of parallel universes because the decisions would increase exponentially. If we account for every person then we're talking about infinite universes.

    Evelyn was awakened to these universes by her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan)-or the Alphaverse version of her husband that took over her husband's body. He also explained that she could tap into the skill set of any version of herself just by doing something quirky and out of the ordinary. She'd have to do this to help fight against the Jobu Tupaki, which was a powerful evil woman who wanted to destroy all of the multiverses.

    What Jobu Tupaki really was was Evelyn's angry daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu). And THAT was the crux of the movie in my opinion. Joy was an angry lesbian daughter who didn't get along with her mother who wanted to blame her discontent on her mother. If only her mother had done xyz or hadn't done abc then she would be so much happier. Like most teens, her anger was such that she'd prefer to destroy the world, or herself, to escape it.

    I suppose the movie was supposed to be deep and it probably tapped into the psychological center of many people, but it missed me. As a production, it was cool. I liked the cast: Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, the incomparable James Hong, and Ke Huy Quan who I remember as Data in "The Goonies." The camera shots, the action, and everything cinematic about the movie was enjoyable. The story, however, I couldn't get into and that's big for me.
  • danielsailer - 2 June 2024
    Something you should see
    A true gem when it comes to moviemaking.

    Stunning pictures, top notch acting and a storyline that deals with some current and settled in topics, with such an disarming warmth and well written and heartfelt dialogs, that it should leave even the most grumpy people on oure beloved space rock with a grin on their faces, or at least a lump stuck in theire throats.

    This movie had me feel utterly mixed emotions, from happienes to sorrow and everything in between even if, to stay true here, for most of the time one doesn´t know exactly whats going on rigthnow .... at least on your first watch.

    It beautifully showes you, how often sadness and deligth are just so close together and portrayes the imense importantce of all our lives, decisions and behaviours in this seemingly vast and completly meaningless universe.

    This film for me adds a meaning to some simple things in life in a way, that i can´t find the rigth words at the moment and most likely never will.

    On the way it also, (or instead) takes you on a unique and interseting Sci-Fi adventure, in which you can just let loose of the thougths in your head for a moment to enjoy the journey if you dont want to be all that "deep".

    It doesnt take itself all that serious, has a fair load of humor and at the same time delivers a Variety of profound perspectives on life and our evergrowing excistential crisises with a rarely matched sharpness and approachability.

    In my eyes, it´s an almost flawless piece of craftmanship that i deeply admire and gladly have come back 5 to 6 times over the past 2 years to be enraptured all over again.

    (Please excuse me if the wording seems a little bit off sometimes i´m not a native speaker but just wanted to write a review for this movie so bad.)

    Have a good one and go watch that thing.