As movie titles go, this was a
pretty accurate one.
There
is A LOT in Everything Everywhere All At Once (I would have loved to
have reviewed this movie for the newspaper because repeating the title every
now and then would have easily gotten me to the five hundred word minimum), and
I’m not talking about all the multiverse shenanigans. This was a long one, with
tons of emotional moments and themes, and I am certain that they did not need
all of it. This could have been a perfect movie, but what it ended up being instead
was a super good movie that left me feeling unnecessarily exhausted by the end.
What
surprised me the most was how funny Everything Everywhere All At Once was.
I knew going in that it was a universe-hopping adventure with lots of Kung Fu
action, and that was about it. I was not ready for the surrealist brilliance of
hot dog fingers or Racacoonie, and every time the mood went from serious to goofy
and back again it was a delight. Michelle Yeoh proves for the billionth time
that not only is she the world’s greatest action heroine but also an incredible
comedic force, and equally as fun to watch was Ke Huy Quan as her eternally
optimistic husband.
Superbly
written and brilliantly directed, Everything was rightfully hyped up at
the time of release as an award-winning tour de force, but I wish it was one
that didn’t try to do, well, everything.
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