Everything Everywhere All at Once

1 of 1 kind of movie that has some of the most hilarious scenes in any movie in a decade

Para pasar el rato vale, pero en 1 semana no recordaré casi nada. Muy sobrevalorada.

I expected everything, but not this. This movie is 2 hours full of trash. Of course made in a funny way. And there are even some real emotional scenes. I think this is a good movie for teenagers, but as an adult I got bored multiple times, although there is a lot of action.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" is a very quirky and inventive and more elevated sci-fi film but it uses its clever concept as an excuse for what its story is lacking resonance with characters that present itself as what it means to be human when in reality it falls into the tropes of any dull predictable genre film that if take away the weird stuff you're left with basically nothing but a very chaotic thin premise that gets bogged down with too much message. The multiverse story telling tool has been used multiple times in pop culture and sometimes it works in films like the Marvel films but I do think it provides a very interesting vehicle that cuts fundamentally into something profound about what it means to be human or about the human experience and that's only when it's done well. With this film you can see there certainly was an intent to do something differently and push beyond those but it does suffer from a lot of the same things and it doesn't quite land emotionally in the ways that it really wants to. That said as a movie experience it is very jubilant, It's not quite as original as it's being sold but there is true sincerity at the heart at all of it and I think that comes through very strongly in the performances. You can tell that the people who worked on it really believed in it from the very beginning and it's impressive because it's not an easy thing to achieve and it has whimsy to it with zany images and unique things that cut through but tonally its really hard to capture the multiverse cinematically. At times even though it does leave certain things to be desired but when it's working its real zippy and finds a kineticism that breezes by. The premise with this Chinese woman who's living in the United States and she manages a laundromat that's not doing well financially and she has a husband that she's kind of annoyed by, she has a grown daughter and there's some tensions there between them and she often wonders looking back at her life had she made maybe one different decision if she had not married this man or whatever her life could've been completely different and of course through the subversion of the multiverse concept she's about to get major look into that. I do think one of the only strong things about the film is the cast. I'm a huge fan of Michelle Yeoh and have been since "Tomorrow Never Dies" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" she been in so many different films and she's always had such a strength about her and gives a forceful type of performance and that works for this character of Evelyn and it's very meta in its style. they found good actors to balance her out especially Ke Huy Quan from "The Goonies" and it's basically the same character but because she's the conflicted character, the lightness sensitivity and softness for him works so well in contrast to her and they bounce off each other so well. Stephanie Shu who plays her daughter has a great sense of humor but it's subtle with that deadpan type of sarcasm you'd expect from a daughter. I do feel like the humor in this film and quite often the gags fall flat yet Shu saves a lot of those lines just because her delivery was fantastic and each role does serve a very important purpose and its something for different people to relate to. The whole is like an absurdist comedy that belongs in this era of mass consumption and short attention spans and I admire wanting to capture all that energy in this very kaleidoscopic sort of feeling but on the surface level it's just very hollow and it doesn't resonate in the ways everyone think it does. I understand why people are affected by it if you strip away a lot of the dumb gimmicks here and lot of the elements that are intentionally making subversive or bizarre the plot is very thin and generic. You have a lot of gifted performers here who have comedic timing and martial arts training and sequences to put those talents to good use but they leave you wondering what's the point of it and I've seen Michelle Yeoh do much better sequences in the past and a lot of the action sequences this inspired by are much better executed. The humor is not clever or witty overall, this movie has a lot of goals and you can open up those goals but to a certain extent you can get too overwhelmed by the framing device of the multiverse and it doesn't allow for certain plot points or emotional moments are able to grow in a way that feels authentic. Everything is just kinda touched here and there amidst all the calamity and maybe that's the intention but you could maintain that energy and give the audience a break while allowing certain things to be delved into a bit more which is the balance this film desperately needs. The irony is that the Daniels Scheinert and Daniel Kwan are often closing off so many ideas before they can be opened up, the film thinks it's hitting a home run and is with certain aspects but not as a whole.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]