Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dirs. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
Reviewed by Matt Adcock (@Cleric20)
"When I Choose To See The Good Side Of Things, I'm Not Being Naive. It Is Strategic And Necessary. It's How I Learned To Survive Through Everything."
We've all been there I'm sure. You know, when an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, and you find yourself as an unlikely hero who must channel newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance?
Michelle Yeoh is Evelyn, a Chinese-American woman who runs a 'seen better days' laundromat with her husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan).
Evelyn's life is complicated as her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) is trying to come out to her family and introduce her girlfriend Becky (Tallie Medel), grand Gong Gong (James Hong) – who might not approve.
Things go supanova when Evelyn gets audited. IRS Agent Deirdre Beaubeirdra (Jamie Lee Curtis), tells her “From a stack of receipts, I can trace the ups and downs of your life. - And it does not look good.” Queue fights, dimension jumping, soul searching and
Everything Everywhere All at Once exists in the fantastical outer wilds of the imagination. If you're looking for trip into the realm of lucid dreaming and liminal spaces - this is the film you've been looking for!!
Like The Matrix by way of Dr Strange and his Multiverse of Madness mixed with the oddities of Michel Gondry and some superbly puerile humour including some very amusing butt plug shaped office awards...
Let's hope there is more of this madness to come!!
öööö1/2
(4.5 - high-class multiverse madness)
Awesomeness öööö – Sausages for fingers you say?
Laughs öööö – Very funny oddness going on
Horror öö – Some violence
Spiritual Enlightenment öööö - Love for life exists
Imagine a world where the earth is becoming hell?
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