Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) Review

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Everything Everywhere All At Once follows Evelyn Wang, whose mundane life is interrupted to learn that the multiverse is on the brink of being destroyed and that only she can stop it. 

To sit here and actually try and review Everything Everywhere All At Once has been like trying to describe a half-remembered dream while on at least a million different hallucinogenic drugs. Because while absolutely blown away, god damn, what a fucking insane, mind bending experience this was. Never has a film made me laugh so hard, cry so much, bewilder me with such absurdity and chaos, and leave me in literal disbelief at it’s visuals, fight choreography, and performances, while still magnificently weaving together a sincere and beautifully crushing story of generational trauma and regret. It’s truly something that can only be seen to be believed. There’s not enough characters in the world to fully describe what an all around, multiversal masterpiece this is.

In a day and age, where every other superhero film is tackling the multiverse and it’s endless possibilities and avenues, nothing could even possibly come close the story of Evelyn Wang and her journey to save her misunderstood daughter through acceptance, love, and repentance. Seeing as her mind is expanded, shattered, put back together, and reborn again is such a giddy fucking trip of kung-fu fighting, multiverse hopping, hot dog finger-ing fun, while somehow still managing to make me completely ball my eyes out at it’s efforts to right the wrongs of the past. 

Everything Everywhere boasts a phenomenal cast too, starring Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., Jamie Lee Curtis, James Hong, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, and Michelle Yeoh. My god, this movie was absolutely made for Yeoh, who just puts it all out there, making me laugh, cheer, worry, cry, and every emotion in between. And alongside her, Quan is just spectacular, and quite honestly the beating heart and soul of this film. 

Everything Everywhere All At Once, directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, is a passionately unhinged modern masterpiece, that is chaos exemplified, blowing my mind is ways I couldn’t imagine were possible, though never once leaving the realm of relatability and honesty in it’s efforts to make one family care again. 

10/10