As Deirdre talks, Evelyn's attention is momentarily drawn to her alternative selves, before she grounds herself back in her home universe. Bramesco praised the Daniels for constructing a "large, elaborate, polished, and detailed expression of a vision," [45] Amy Nicholson of The Wall Street Journal wrote, "Over its nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time, the movie's ambitions double, and double again, as though it's a petri dish teeming with Mr. Everything Everywhere All at Once' a playful skip through the multiverses of hot-dog fingers and cooking raccoons".

A quick summary of the plot is that Yeoh plays a laundromat owner who desperately needs to get her taxes done, but finds herself tasked with saving the multiverse from collapsing. The multiverse is threatened by Jobu Tupaki (Alpha-Joy), whose mind was splintered after Alpha-Evelyn pushed her to verse-jump beyond her endurance; Jobu experiences all universes at once and can verse-jump and manipulate matter at will. Spending most of his time watching new movies at the theater or classics on TCM, some of Michael's favorite movies include Casablanca, Moulin Rouge! As Evelyn is about to enter the Bagel with Jobu, she pauses to listen to Waymond's pleas in her universe for everybody to stop fighting and to instead be kind, even when life does not make sense. I don't like to integrate me, Michelle Yeoh, into the characters that I play, because they all deserve their own journey and their stories to be told".Small Movies, Big Profits: An Oscar Winner And Horror Hits Among Overachievers In Deadline's 2022 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament". Everything Everywhere All at Once' Directors Turned Down 'Loki' to Direct Their Own Multiverse Comedy". Describing Jobu Tupaki's modus operandi, Worthington notes "the living contradiction that is the everything bagel: if you put everything on a bagel, what more is left? Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian to win the Best Actress award for her role as Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who must connect with different versions of herself in the multiverse to save the world. A Best Picture champ hasn't won multiple acting Oscars in a long time, but 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' can end that dry spell".

But within the context of the film, it's a breather the audience and characters both desperately need, and the emotions are so heightened that just the sight of rock-Joy and rock-Evelyn sharing a companionable laugh is remarkably heartening and hilarious. Yeah yeah I get the message love can be found in even the worst situations no matter how desperately bad or bleak . language There is use of strong language ('f**k'), accompanied by milder terms ('bitch', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'piss', 'God', 'damn' and 'butt'). This pretty much means it's one of the top movies you absolutely have to see if you've already gotten caught up in the hype. Alpha-Waymond explains to Evelyn that many parallel universes exist because every life choice creates a new alternative universe.

The film is also available to watch on Apple TV and iTunes via the relevant apps on your smart TV, laptop or handheld devices. Filming wrapped in early March 2020, during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. flashing/flickering lights This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. In an emotional speech, Curtis said: “I know it looks like I am standing up here on my own but I am not. Evelyn tells Joy that even when nothing makes sense and even though she could be anywhere else in the multiverse, she would always want to be with Joy.

But if you stay through the credits y'all get some good old fashioned bloopers and outtakes like a classic Hong Kong flick" (Tweet). Stephanie Hsu as Joy Wang, Evelyn's daughter; and Jobu Tupaki, Alpha-Evelyn's omnicidal daughter whose growing nihilism is a threat to the entire multiverse. The universe in which Evelyn and Joy are rocks was influenced by the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969) and the video game Everything (2017). Everything Everywhere All at Once incorporates elements from a number of genres and film mediums, including surreal comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films and animation. In Everything Everywhere All at Once , Michelle Yeoh finds herself reaching out to other universes and connecting with her many selves to draw on their powers.

Everything Everywhere All at Once' Review: 'The Matrix' Meets the Multiverse in Daniels' Instant Classic". Visual effects post-production for the film was done in-house, after the Daniels' negative experience with a dedicated post-production studio for their previous film Swiss Army Man. For Deirdre's appearance, Kwan discovered a picture of a real IRS agent he found online, which Curtis liked and wanted to emulate. In the present day, the laundromat is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Waymond is trying to serve Evelyn divorce papers in an attempt to get her attention so they can talk about their marriage, Evelyn's stern and demanding father (referred to as Gong Gong, Cantonese for "grandfather" [16]) is visiting for her Chinese New Year party, and Joy is dealing with depression [17] and has a strained relationship with her mother, which also includes Evelyn's reluctance to accept Joy's lesbian relationship with her non-Chinese girlfriend Becky.

Kwan described the release of the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), which also deals with a multiversal concept, as "a little upsetting because we were like, 'Oh shit, everyone's going to beat us to this thing we've been working on. Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Quan Wang, a dissatisfied and overwhelmed laundromat owner; and as several other versions of Evelyn in alternate universes. The reaction to the film's Best Picture win was not without criticism, with Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times feeling that the Academy "chose the wrong best picture" and believed that now, as a result, "films that enter the race reeking too obviously of traditional Oscar quality — a group that includes not only The Fabelmans but also two earlier Spielberg pictures, The Post and West Side Story — run the risk of falling by the wayside," and compared its win to that of CODA at the previous ceremony. Principal photography began in January 2020, with A24 announcing that it would finance and distribute the film. Accepting her award, Yeoh said: “For all the little boys and girls who look like me, this is a beacon of hope and possibilities.

Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American independent film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who produced it with Anthony and Joe Russo and Jonathan Wang; the film incorporates elements from a number of genres and film mediums, including absurdist fiction, comedy-drama, surreal comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films, immigrant narrative, and animation. Dissenting reviews include that of Richard Brody for The New Yorker, who dismissed it as a "sickly cynical feature-length directorial pitch reel for a Marvel movie", [105] and that of Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian who described it as "a formless splurge of Nothing Nowhere Over a Long Period of Time". g. a woman uses large dildos in a bloody beating; it is implied that two men purposefully land on pointy objects, which are subsequently revealed sticking out from underneath their clothes). Laura Zornosa from The New York Times elaborates its addressing of intergenerational trauma through healing relationships.