Everything Everywhere All at Once
Year: 2022
Rating: R
Length: 139 minutes / 2.32 hours
Multiverse stories are all the rage right now. While most of them seem to be relegated to comic book adaptations (like Loki, Spider-man: No Way Home (2021), and Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness (2022)), by far the best one to emerge from this pile of parallel universes is Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). It is the most bizarrely funny movie I’ve seen in some time, which just goes to show how films released by A24 are of a higher caliber than anything else.
Most multiverse movies play it pretty safe when exploring branching paths of the known universe. Everything Everywhere All at Once throws literally everything at the audience, and the result is hilarious. Office equipment mechas, Human Ratatouilles, Rocks, Bagels. I honestly can’t come close to describing the rapid-fire series of absurdist realities. Some moments were straight laugh-out-loud funny to me, and others were…a bit more adult in their ridiculousness. I definitely suggest going in sober for this film, as you’ll need all your mental faculties to absorb it.
At its heart, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a movie about family. Mothers and daughters. Spouses. Grandfathers. The only reason I don’t give this movie a full five stars is because the core of the movie is a little lost by the end. After all the weird stuff thrown on the screen in two hours, coming back to a semblance of a normal reality felt hollow, even if it was necessary to tie everything from everywhere back to the plot that started the movie. Yes, it is a heartfelt ending, but it’s difficult to take it seriously after dildo fights and hot dog fingers.
The best multiverse movie to come out in ages, I give Everything Everywhere All at Once 4.5 stars out of 5.
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