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Everything Everywhere All At Once Is A Must-See Experience

So many elements go into the movie that there are laughs, awes, and a good cry to be had by some as we watch an unlikely hero's journey back to loving her family.

By Jason Ray Morton Published 2 years ago 3 min read
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It takes a special person or persons to combine elements of the ridiculous, the bizarre, the kinky, the scientific, and the wonderful into one big boiling stew of ingredients and come out with something so “special.” That is what happened in the Michelle Yeoh lead release ‘Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.’

“Everything, Everywhere, All At Once”

If you thought Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness was a bizarre look at the world from the Marvel Universe, this look into the multi-verse is as bizarre and crazy as the idea of a multiverse. When Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) goes to get audited by the IRS, she’s in the middle of an audit being done by Diedre Beaubeirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her world gets a little wild. Enter the multiverse.

For an average person that’s never had any exceptional luck at living her dreams, Evelyn is thrust into an interverse conflict between her world and the Alpha-verse, where her husband is a much better version of him than she has seen. Dashing, forceful, and brave, he leads her to safety until she’s ready to fight off the other-verse version of her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu.)

Using multi-verse jumps Evelyn quickly learns to harness the power and skill of other versions of herself as she starts to see and feel the multiverse. Unfortunately, she’ll have to Kungfu her way past a horde of ridiculously funny opponents. The trick to jumping is doing something weird or bizarre to gain the other versions' powers, a trick that’s done by jumpers coming to fight Evelyn.

From chewing chapstick to eating a frog, to having a rather large butt plug up their rectums the jumpers put on some of the most comical martial arts fight scenes of the decade. When the police arrive at the IRS to take Evelyn and her family into custody, seeing the cop get slapped with a dildo got an uproarious laugh from the crowd.

Jamie Lee Curtis isn’t the only big star to join Yeoh in this raucous adventure into the craziness of a multiverse. We also get to enjoy the long-standing talents of James Hong as Gong Gong. Hong is a force to be reckoned with on-screen and has done such famed movies as Big Trouble In Little China, Tango & Cash (Quan), and starred alongside Chuck Norris in Missing In Action.

They broke through the genres with Everything Everywhere All At Once. This movie is richly layered with deep messages that will affect every viewer as Evelyn comes to grips with the life she’s lived and learns how to again love her family.

As they travel through the different worlds of the multiverse, becoming both cartoon characters and pinatas, there’s a touching scene where they land on a world and are rocks. It’s done with no sound, just the two of them on a cliff, with subtitles. It reminds us how easily we can become detached or estranged from the ones we love, and yet, still love them with all of our hearts.

Conclusion

There’s a reason it scored so highly with the fans and the critics so far. While I didn’t know much about the movie before I saw it, and hadn't watched a trailer, I was familiar with Michaell Yeoh. The movie is a stunningly visual experience, even if you don’t look that closely at the buttplugs, and filled with action, drama, family struggles, and real-life issues that many of us are going through or have gone through.

Without spoiling anything, there’s also the return to American Cinema by one of our favorite childhood actors, Ke Huy Quan, better known as Short Round from Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom. Much like Indy, Evelyn needed to listen to him so she’d live longer.

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Jason Ray Morton

I have always enjoyed writing and exploring new ideas, new beliefs, and the dreams that rattle around inside my head. I have enjoyed the current state of science, human progress, fantasy and existence and write about them when I can.

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  • Paula Shablo2 years ago

    I am so ready to this!

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