Quick and Dirty Review of “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
It’s pretty rare that a movie comes along that really takes your breath away, but EEAAO is such a movie. This film finds our main character, Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), stuck in a boring life, working at the laundromat she owns with her mousy husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and dealing with an IRS audit headed by sassy IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis). She’s also juggling a judgmental father and a daughter with a new girlfriend.
But things take a turn when another version of her husband appears, pulling her into a madcap multiversal adventure where Evelyn can take on the skills and abilities of the various other versions of herself that exist. I won’t spoil it for you, but she’ll need those skills to defeat a menace that, while somehow connected to her, is hellbent on destroying every universe.
A much better take on the concept of multiple universes than this summers’s tepid “Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness,” this movie shows you what filmmakers can do when they’re thinking outside of the box — or the bagel — instead of trapped in Marvel’s monsterous movie making machine that stamps out movie after movie of prepackaged “entertainment” but refuse to take chances.
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is well worth a viewing or two, in this universe or any other. 9 out of 10, easily one of the top films of 2022.
Also, if you are interested in behind the scenes stuff, here’s a great article from Filmmaker Magazine on the filming of “Everything” and the thinking behind some of those iconic — and crazy — shots. Raccacoonie!
