I saw it last night and loved it. I expected the over the top but didn’t expect it to be such a sweet heart warming movie. Great job by all the actors and directors. The performances of them as a struggling immigrant family read very true down to the “Chinglish” they were speaking. I was thinking that you could done this moving without the multiverse and crazy action and just as a drama about an immigrant family dealing with divorce, bankruptcy and generational clash and it could be Oscar bait. Combining it with the Multiverse and the action made it much more than just a tear jerker. As someone in middle age and thinking about all the different paths that life could take that message really struck to me. The message that life could totally be different but what matters is the meaning you make out of it is a very important and one that I think a lot of people need that.
This was rereleased to theaters….it’s around for 4 more days. This is worth seeing in theater. Great movie, although I might need to take a break from hot dogs for a year
Holy ****, finally got around to watching this at home. Wish I had gone to see it in the theater instead. What an amazing movie. Never has the title of a movie been so apt. It's just absolutely nuts in the best possible way, and just when you think you've seen the absolutely most absurd thing you could ever conjure up in your own mind, they double down and it gets WEIRDER. But somehow, in the midst of all that weird, is a warm beating heart of a movie that grips you and has you pulling for every single character, even Jamie Lee Curtis' "unloveable" IRS agent...which is the point of the whole damn movie. So, so good. All the actors were great. Michelle Yeoh doesn't surprise me anymore, but she was outstanding. I was today years old when I realized that it was Data from Goonies who was the male lead in this. He was so good as well and serves as a nice anchor throughout even during he weird parts. But really it was the daughter that blew me away. I just looked her up and she's older than I realized (thought she was in her 20s, but she is 31), but she somehow manages to pull off a normal, conflicted asian-american teenager (I think she was supposed to be that young in the movie) who is pulled between two different cultures and feels like she struggles to relate to her mom while also having moments of existential intimidation...but somehow sprinkled with juuuuuuust the right amount of silly. I can't imagine how hard it was to pull all that off, but she and everyone else look like they are having a blast doing it. It's funny, as I was watching I thought to myself multiple times "this is as crazy a conceit as that weird Swiss Army Knife movie that was also beyond bizarre but also heart warming". Low and behold, it's the same guys made both movies. Makes sense. I suggest that one as well if you liked this. It is not near on the same level, but still surprisingly good. I hope it gets nominated for a best picture at this year's Oscars. My wife asked me, "you think those academy award stuffed shirts will nominate a movie that features dildo nunchuks?" I don't know the answer to that question, but I really, really hope the answer is YES. Because if not, they deserve an IRS audit award shoved up their hiney hole.
I highly recommend this movie. There is nothing quite like it to compare it to. There are like 5-10 story arcs (multiverse, ya know) that flow through the movie. The writer(s) did a great job of mingling them all. The writing definitely deserves an Oscar nomination.
If you told me that this was a Terry Gilliam directed Steven Spielberg produced movie written by the Wachowskis and funded by Chinese Venture capitalists I would believe you. Crazy film. I had issues with a few things, but it was still great.
Saw this movie last weekend, the first half of the movie was really great and I loved the characters and the story, just about everything. However at around the halfway point and onward, the story felt unchanged and it was pretty much the same: constant transition between mulitiverse, conflict of relationships with her husband, daughter and father, etc. I kinda got tired of the story by this point and nothing really drew me forward and I just wanted to power thru to see the end. Strictly my opinion, I understand ppl enjoyed the movie, but I just got bored of the movie/story and constant multiverse jumping from about middle to end Really liked seeing Short Round (Indiana Jones) / Data (Goonies) in a movie again
Agree with this. Didn't love the movie like a lot of people. The whole family dynamic was over the top and bored me after a while. I laud it for it's audacity and originality (although multiverse is sort of mainstream now). Glad Short Round won an award, he was great in the movie. Michelle Yeoh is beautiful.
This movie doesn't need to win best picture or anything. Just hope they give the Oscar to Data or Yeoh and I'm happy.
While cheesy, it was necessary to blunt the cold nihilism that the multiverse implies. If all your decisions end up being probablist outcomes, then are you really in control and does it really matter? How does religion or heaven fit into all of it? So they simplify the answers into love and family because that's what it'll take to ground us as we invent and tinker ourselves into obselence and irrepressible complexity.
I thought it started well enough by the end I was tired of The silliness of the HotDog fingers was just kind of disgusting to me - complete turn off The resolution etc was just . . . weak I was entertained but did not love it like everyone else did . . it was not "masterpeice of modern cinema" Rocket River
This movie was terrible. The same people who hate on movies like Avatar love garbage like this. Spoiler
Happy to see this movie get Best Picture and clean up at the Oscars. Glad to see Jamie Lee Curtis get win too. Given that it took me awhile to realize that it was Jamie Lee Curtis when I saw the movie shows how good of an actor she is. As an Asian a lot was made about Crazy Rich Asians and how great it was for Asian actors and Asian Americans, forgetting that there had been other primarily Asian American movies made before, I didn't think that movie really represented Asian Americans well. It was a romantic fantasy set in Singapore and the depiction of Singapore was more like the type of destination fantasy that their board of Tourism likes to promote rather than a real place. Everything Everywhere All at Once on the surface is truly fantastical with a multiverse, superpowers, evil bagel, talking rocks and hot dog hands yet at it's heart is much more about the actual Asian American and immigrant story. The struggles to run a business and the generation clash they deal with rings more true even down to the Chinglish that they speak.
