Review everything everywhere at once: charming, expansive and utterly ridiculous

Probably the weirdest thing Everywhere and everything at onceA film that includes a remarkable storyline riffing 2001: A Space Odyssey Explaining the alternative reality that humans have created hot dogs for fingers, sometimes No. Feeling weird. Directed by Daniel Quan and Daniel Schneider, it features a frantic music video marathon, a slapstick martial arts comedy and a meeting of surrealist science fiction. But it was compiled into a serious family drama that was elevated by a series of excellent performances, especially by central star Michelle Yovin.

A lot is going on inside Everything everywhere, But the basic essence is straightforward. Evelyn Wang (Yov) is the owner of a failed laundry worker and a chaotic, unsatisfying life. Her husband Weymond (Ke Hui Quan) has filed for divorce, her father (James Hong) is in poor health, and her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) is frustrated by Evelyn’s own conflict. Deirdre Beaubeirdra (Jamie Lee Curtis), a ruthless IRS employee, claims the karaoke machine is a tax expense and censors her for numerous other dubious results.

Then, as Evelyn makes her last attempt to save her business, Wymond’s body is suddenly occupied by an adversary of one of infinite alternative realities. He tells her that she is the only person who can save Multiverse from the threat of destroying reality. She still has to finish her lines.

As Alt-Waymond acknowledges, the exact dynamics of multiverses are complex and not always logical. “Verse-jumpers” can use earpieces to transform the bodies of their alternative talents into puppets, and they can osmosis skills from peers in other worlds by performing important actions that set their lives on different paths. (For unexplained reasons, most of these jobs are painful or bulky, such as picking up paper cuts or eating soapstick.) The possibilities could lead to a catastrophic existential crisis.

The system offers Kwan and Schneider the opportunity to pinpoint between several short stories and truly mesmerizing colorful costume transitions, and justify a series of strange martial arts that work primarily on dream logic. Everything is everywhere Fight scenes are more entertaining, creative and a better shot than many full-length action movies. Most cinematic rights It is clearly drawing. (They’re more fun than almost any of the Marvel films created by the Russo brothers who worked as producers here.)

Yo’s main character is a bitch-perfect chaotic woman who can suddenly pull off incredible acrobatic feats triggered by silly body humor, while her other personalities express her effortless charm. Kuan becomes fluid between his unhappy primary-cosmic self and his highly-capable alternative-ego. Even Curtis, who was introduced as a snide officer, gets a menacing twist on many of his personalities.

Everything everywhere Full of intricate connections and Chekhov’s guns, it combines on an aesthetic level rather than a story. It goes back and forth to create multiverse vignettes that extend from the previous small details of the film, including jokes ranging from mild to very bad. (This is a good time to mention that it was also directed by Quan and Schneider Swiss soldierThe film stars Daniel Radcliffe as a gassy corpse.) Some of these calls feel alien, and are based on a question-and-answer session following the film’s SXSW premiere. Then At least one supply cut room was left on the floor. But they also help to sell cinematic hints of cinematic hints and throwaways – whatever you do Everything In a bagel, man – in Tedphone shots with visual prowess.

Dramatic elements still do not always add up. Everything is everywhere Science fiction series can be written as a reference to the time between absurdities, and elsewhere incorporated with expressive dialogues that do not have very stressful and natural exchanges. The script as a whole has a monopoly on life and humanity, which sounds good in solitude, but blends in abruptly like the costumes of a movie, confirming well-established character motivations before that moment.

Still, the relationship between Evelyn, Joy, Waymond and (unexpectedly) Deitre is sweet. Just A hair without hair. Everything is everywhere Although archeology is not often found in primary science fiction films, individuals are often archetypes. But the film sees them as complementary features of a complex individual rather than an abundance of individual entities. There’s no cheap ambiguity as to whether any of the film’s events take place – the multiverses are, of course, and the fingers in it definitely have people who are hot dogs – but the sequence of its worlds has a vibration of imagination that highlights the main features of the characters. Makes them more than tricks or quirks for its own reason.

This may be due to less script than the actors who bring consistency to the most goofy scenes. Kwan gives Weymond a flexible impact that even occurs when Evelyn is dragged into the multiverse. Although Hsu gets less screen time as his original-universe character, he balances the loss of one of Joy’s alternative egos with bad nilistic and hopelessness. Deirdre is legal, but – like many real world fools – capable of compassion and affection.

In a film that sparks countless previous films about disgruntled losers, Joh reveals a fierce and magnetic field, discovering that they are secretly heroes. Her protagonist is frustrated with life but still active, surrounded by deficient but ultimately decent people as a mature man. Evelyn is immersed in diversity, and her way of leading a multilingual and multilingual family is foreshadowed by her rapid conversion between Mandarin, Cantonese and English. One Everything is everywhere What drives the comedy is that its protagonist is actually a less talented version of herself, but the gaps between Evelyn’s selves never seem to be confusing – you can trust that a few results separate a chaotic laundry owner from a master chef or opera singer.

For all the weird stuff that is thrown away Everything, anywhere Kwan and Schneider’s risky move is to deliberately choose a running time of almost 140 minutes for comedy built around the tonal whip, the polarizing style of comedy and the weary pace. Everything everywhere A big twist ball of a movie, if it doesn’t work for you, that feeling will last for a very, very long time. If so Will do Work, however, may be one of the most glamorous ridiculous movies you see this year.

Everywhere and everything at once Debuts in theaters on March 25th