Man, I feel like I must be one of the only people who didn't like this movie. _Everything Everywhere All at Once_ is a fitting name for it because that's what this movie throws at you and for me it just didn't work. It's for the most part a tale of finding family across the multiverse which I think could've worked fine on its own. Instead, it's got this scifi "jumping" element where in order to switch multiverses you have to do a "statistically improbable action". So you go from artsy shots and the protagonist discussing divorce with her husband to some guy sitting on a buttplug in an office or a universe where people have fingers made of hotdogs. I only laughed once or twice during the movie; the overall tone wasn't comedic and the "wacky" bits were quite tame compared to what's been done in _Rick and Morty_ to much greater effect. You're also constantly jumping around, martial arts gets thrown in...it's all a bit incoherent.

I would rate _Eternal Sunshine_ higher for emotional time travel, _About Time_ higher for romantic time travel, _Rick and Morty_ higher for comedic time travel, _The Butterfly Effect_ higher for thought-provoking time travel...in summary; this movie is not more than the sum of its parts; it's more like the average of its parts and each part isn't as strong as it could be on its own.

This is a masterpiece. This movie should be studied, re-watched, and maybe even worshipped. (Okay, maybe not worshipped, but something close to that.)

I've been a long-time fan of absurdist comedy, and this movie was the first I'd seen that was able to perfectly marry that with such an endearing, human story.

For me the whole movie was about the insanity it is to be human. The chaos, the uncertainty, the not knowing fucking anything, and all the feelings that come with those things. I'm pretty much an optimistic nihilist myself, and this movie felt basically like scripture to me. Even at the end of the film, when she says that nothing matters, you still can feel as a viewer, after seeing all of that, that things matter only as much as you want them to.

I've never thought a movie that had a scene with someone wielding two massive, bloody dildos could also make me feel so at peace with the state of all of our existences.

I think that's what I find so delightful and welcoming about this movie and how they made it: the perfect way they joined absurdity and each individual human's desire to find "meaning" in their life.

Overall I think I learned that searching for meaning in one's life isn't necessarily the best way to go about actually finding it. It feels like the movie made a strong argument for the idea of only finding meaning when you've stopped looking for it and have embraced the chaos, absurdity, infinite complexity, and even humor of it all.

Very imaginative movie. I will give it that much.
However, in my opinion this movie is not as good as all the hype. The title made this seem to me like a multi dimensional sci-fi film but the sci-fi elements are just dressing to a core plot that's quite bland. Maybe that's what the film makers were going for. To me though it was just a good movie 7/10.

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"Everything Everywhere All at Once is undoubtedly one of the best movies of the year, finally putting Daniels on the mainstream radar.

With such a low budget, it's almost humiliating that so many expensive Hollywood blockbusters can't even reach the heels of so much originality, imagination, excitement, and emotion. Michelle Yeoh leads the troops in a film that also pays homage to the iconic career of the actress who, at 59 years old, accompanies the fantastic stunt team in truly outlandish fights.

The mother-daughter relationship as the emotional core of the story follows a surprisingly predictable path and needs a few more dialogues to deliver an even more powerful climax, but it still induces tears and a genuine sense of concern for the characters.

Technically, all the elements are so creatively unique that it warrants the clickbait "you've never seen anything like this".

See it in theaters!"

Rating: A

I loved both Michelle Yeoh ("Evelyn") and Jamie Lee Curtis ("Deirdre") in this entertainingly surreal take on the latest multi-verse theme to hit the cinemas. The former is a lady trying to balance the books at her failing laundry who must face the wrath of the latter - an imposing IRS investigator. Add to her woes, she has her hapless husband "Waymond" (Ke Huy Quan); her recently out lesbian daughter "Joy" (Stephanie Hsu) and her imperious and disapproving father "Gong Gong" (James Hong). Frankly, this poor woman does not have her troubles to seek. Then, all of a sudden, there is a rift - and in best Lewis Carroll tradition, "Evelyn" finds herself in not just one, but in multiple realities where she has everything from superpowers to a need to save the world from beings that would permanently unravel all the layers of existence on planet Earth. It's frankly impossible to adequately evaluate the plot - it lurches, veers, wobbles and meanders all over the shop with precious little linear to guide the viewer. It is a tour de force from Yeoh, well directed and scripted - frequently amusingly - that asks just as many questions as it strenuously attempts to avoid answering. It is aptly titled - and you need to have your eyes (and your brain) on wide beam to get the most from this feast of ostensibly nonsensical, but often poignant, series of escapades that search for what could constitute any degree of life-satisfaction for "Evelyn". A second viewing is highly recommended - it has plenty more to give once you've calibrated your senses after the first time, and big screen shows off some great VFX that do not impose themselves on this character-driven movie.