Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

  • Released: 2022-03-24
  • Runtime: 139 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Molinari, Peter Banifaz, Audrey Wasilewski, Jenny Slate, Andy Le, Brian Le, Daniel Scheinert, Harry Shum Jr., Biff Wiff, Sunita Mani, Aaron Lazar, Tallie Medel, Li Jing, Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom, Dylan Henry Lau, Michiko Nishiwaki, Cara Marie Chooljian, Randall Archer, Efka Kvaraciejus, Neravana Cabral, Chelsey Goldsmith, Craig Henningsen, Jason Hamer, Timothy Ralston, Hiroshi Yada, Jane Lui, Timothy Eulich, Boon Pin Koh, Li Jing, Randy Newman
  • Director: Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
 Comments
  • patrik-mueller - 23 June 2024
    It's okay
    So this is that insanely popular, super-imaginative and wholesome movie everybody seemed to be enamoured with.

    Frankly, I expected A LOT more than what I got.

    All actors do a good job, the effects are mostly well-done and the pacing keeps the audience entertained for the most.

    And that's about it, unfortunately.

    All the multiverse shenanigans are just not creative or thought-out enough to amaze anybody or inspire deeper contemplation of the concept.

    Instead, it's mainly just tech-blabla, colourful imagery and mediocre gags.

    Worst of all, instead of flowing with the circus, the attempted heartfelt moments come across as artificial and unearned.

    Maybe if it came out ten years earlier, I'd feel differently, but as things are, I'd much, much, MUCH rather rewatch any given season of "Rick and Morty" than this.
  • markwalsh-61707 - 8 June 2024
    The people that rated this so high are pretentious sadnesses.
    June 2024. I like to wait a fair while to watch so many things, especially so many things that have been hyped. And so it goes with this movie. I went into it mostly blind and hopeful.

    I came out of it with my eyes wide open and thoroughly disappointed. Yes weird yes mental yes full of....full of.....yeah full of lots of things, lots of them not real good.

    Ooh that's happening, ooh that's so random, ooh that's quirky and a half and then some. Oh God seriously !?!?! Why oh why. I wanted to fast forward so many times but stuck with it in case I missed something good or a key point. Those things didn't come.

    All in all a big fat disappointment.
  • bob-1215 - 30 April 2024
    Not another glowing review 😆
    I'm just here to give this movie as many stars as possible. Very early on I told everyone who would listen that this movie was groundbreaking and totally unique. I saw it at a theater and then sat in the lobby afterwards texting the most important people in my life begging them to see it as soon as humanly possible. I compared it to Kubrick's 2001 - not that the content was even remotely similar but that it was equally groundbreaking and mind expanding. After seeing it three times in theaters, I bought it on streaming as soon as it was available and then bought the Blu-ray as soon as it could be pre-ordered. Later, I was so glad that the critics and The Academy agreed with me. I am a fan of classic movies and I am too often disappointed with the formulaic "blockbuster" Hollywood movies and the "look at me, I'm being creative" independents. This movie falls in neither of those categories. Everyone has a movie that they hyperbolize glowingly about but I firmly believe this movie will be on many lists of the greatest movies ever made.
  • jvavoules - 12 January 2023
    Horrible and overrated
    I disliked this movie pretty much from the start. For a movie trying to get across such an important message, this was just not the right way. It was so long and too complex, not for any real cause, that I found myself begging for it to be over.

    I did end up liking the ending, as I like the moral of the story, however, most of the rest of the movie was not necessary, poorly developed, or was super cheesy... I mean, I saw the "villain" from a mile away and even if I didn't, it just can't get any cheesier than that.

    I also appreciate that people in the comments liked the chaos in the movie, but for me, I don't need a movie to give me anxiety.
  • tahnya110 - 11 January 2023
    Put everything on a bagel and smoke some...
    This has got to be the most absurd movie that I have ever seen. It is incoherent, silly and ridiculous. The plot kind of makes sense but each scene is more and more convoluted and ridiculous. The worst part is the movie is not even fun to watch.

    It's made in the backdrop of low budget office sets. The comedy is laughable, meaning I'm laughing at the comedy and not with it. The whole movie is an entangled mess of absurdity and I feel those who gave it a high rating may have actually been high?

    I have never detested a movie this much. Sometimes I feel these days if you make eccentric meaningless movies like the menu and wrap them with some semblance of a themse or moral of the story, people eat it all up. Pun intended. Perhaps people are so desperate to find meaning in their lives that they will endure and celebrate even the least entertaining films if they derive some meaning or message from it.

    For me I watch movies for entertainment and this was far from it.

    Pass.
  • Hammer-Rocks - 7 January 2023
    Well that was weird
    I think I am in the minority when it comes to my thoughts about this movie. As at the time of reviewing this (movie), it had an IMDB score of 8.1 (Jan 2023). I gave it 5 stars, and I was being generous at that.

    For me, the story was confusing, with only limited spots of action here and there. But overall, it's not an easy movie to follow, and was disappointed for the reason given why all the caos is happening. Its saving grace is the suberb cast. The movie is well acted (it's why I gave it 5 stars), but the story pace is all over the place. Very slow in the beginning, then fast, then slow, then even more slow. Some great action when it happened, but nothing new that we haven't seen before, and they (action) come far and few in-between. The interaction between the characters is not great neither. There is no chemistry with all of them. Although it was good to see "Data" and "Short-Round" (aka Ke Huy Quan), all grown up.

    I really wanted to like this movie, but in the end it just left me confused, and the journey to my confusing wasn't really as entertaining as I would have hoped.

    VERDICT: If you're a fan of Michelle Yeoh and like multi-verse type movies, then this could be your cup of tea.
  • oskarsvaren-36531 - 5 January 2023
    Best movie in 10 years atleast!
    I went into this movie with zero expectations. Went out with a million questions and as an emotinal wrack. The begining is quiet and you get to know the charachters, but as the movie builds up you get more and more action. Its funny original and think worthy. I have never experienced a movie that explain a persons emotinal life more than this.

    Loved every second of it! But this isnt one of those movies you can sit with your phone scrolling and glaring at the TV once in a while. You need to be focused and let your self be captured in this movies wricked world. I found my new favourite movie and i hope you do too.
  • person-97881 - 3 January 2023
    beautiful.
    Best movie i've ever seen in my entire life. Not exaggerating. You could analyse this movie so thoroughly only to find ur bot ever half way through all the themes and emotions depicted !! In loooooooooooove. Like wow??? Please watch. You will not regret it. Ps: probably for ages 13+ though, there is a couple of graphic scenes. Also another thing i love about this movie is how it depicts a chinese immigrant household, as it doesn't include nothing but stereotypes, but uses so many creative aspects to create the movie. As an immigrant from china this movie is such a masterpiece. Another thing i love is the lgbtq representation and inclusion. Love this movie 10/10.
  • I_Ailurophile - 2 January 2023
    Absolutely exemplary, truly brilliant, difficult to even put into words
    Let's be frank: It's not possible to overstate how brilliant this film is. Filmmakers Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert have given us a movie that is, truly, everything and everywhere, scattered and all over the place, nothing and all simultaneously. There is no stone left unturned, no inclusion to outlandish, far-fetched, and absurd to lump together, no idea that isn't thrown at the wall. Kwan and Scheinert have given us a hodgepodge mishmash smorgasbord as outrageous as 1967's 'Casino Royale,' 'Beyond the valley of the dolls,' 'Attack of the killer tomatoes,' every most preposterous B-movie, every most senselessly pompous and grandiose blockbuster, and every hopelessly overcooked blend of genres all smashed together into one picture. By all reason, this should be a horribly sloppy, nonsensical, blustery low-grade fancy of the sort we'd expect to see from Jim Wynorski, Charles Band, J. R. Bookwalter, The Asylum, Uncork'd Entertainment, or gods know what else. Instead, it's one of the most singularly imaginative, ingenious, flawlessly well made, stunning, captivating, entertaining features that has possibly ever been made. 'Everything everywhere all at once' is an instant modern classic, a true masterpiece.

    There's no reason whatsoever why any of this should work as well as it does. Absurdism, surrealism, profundity, major drama, martial arts, science fiction, action-comedy, parody, satire, obscenity, racism, homophobia, animal cruelty, love, abject cartoonishness, family, universality, morality, kindness and cruelty, weakness and strength, nihilism and hope, unreserved bombast, art film loftiness, warmhearted sincerity, fierce violence - all this and much, much more, in a bizarre, kaleidoscopic cacophony of 139 minutes. Such far-flung notions apply to every single last aspect of the feature, even the aspect ratio. Sound effects, sound design, cinematography, direction, editing, lighting, costume design, props, effects, hair, makeup, production design, art direction, characters, dialogue, scene writing, the story, plot development, mechanics of the multiverse, music, choreography, pacing, comedy, messaging, tone, and more are all subject to the same wild whims wholehearted earnestness and indulgence, flipping in an instant from one mood or concept to another perhaps multiple times in the same scene. This is to say nothing of the acting, with everyone in this amazing cast giving extraordinary performances of arguably greater versatility than has ever been required of anyone in one other particular title. Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, Tallie Medel, and all others involved turn in displays wholly unlke anything else they've ever done. I'm simply astounded.

    To discuss anything about this film, any one single element, would require a vast quantity of words far exceeding the space one is typically allotted. To discuss the picture at large, in substantial detail, almost seems like a Herculean task. All that I can say is that the title speaks as much to the content, and every small facet represents, as it does to the unremitting, all-consuming panoply of ideas that informed the work of the filmmakers, the cast, and the crew. From top to bottom, left to right, and inside-out, 'Everything everywhere all at once' is both overwhelming and not enough, wonderfully satisfying and rewarding but never leaving us sated, farcical and sensible, haphazardly kluged and precisely calculated - too much, and not enough. In recent years there have been multiple highly acclaimed and very popular movies that have played with the idea of the multiverse, and it's at best questionable if any of them have struck a chord of originality, a spark of genius, in the way that this has. While I heard nothing but good things about EEAAO and anticipated enjoying it before I sat to watch, never in my wildest dreams could I have been prepared for what it actually is. It's so over the top that I can't imagine it will appeal to everyone, yet crafted with such extreme passion and care, and bound up with such welcome, heartfelt authenticity and humanity, that it speaks directly to everything that audiences love about the medium in the first place. This is the type of picture that, love it or hate it, everyone needs to see at least once. I'm blown away. 'Everything everywhere all at once' is absolutely incredible, and isn't to be missed.
  • mikamschaffer - 31 December 2022
    Feels like a punch in the face-but in a good way-
    Well, the movie started out as some sort of a drama, and then drastically changes into the most creative piece of art I've seen this century.

    From the moment in the ensurance-building, the entire tone of the changes, and just becomes a better version of "Doctor Strange 2", since its just so much more creative.

    Michelle Yeoh is acting her soul out, and the rest if the cast does as well.

    This has propably been the most creative movie i have watched in my life, and i dont think that is ever going to change.

    However, a few friends of mine said, the movie was "too much", which is understandable, but cant overshadow, how fun it is, if you do enjoy it.