'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is an extremely difficult film to kind of boil down into a brief description. It's about the multiverse, and family relationships, and taxes, and hot dog fingers, and 'The Matrix', and misunderstanding the titles of Pixar movies. Writer directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert come form a music video background and their one previous film project together was 2016's 'Swiss Army Man', in which a marooned Paul Dano rides Daniel Radcliffe's farting corpse back to civilization. So think surreal going in.
Like their previous film 'Everywhere' can be a bit much, and I found it kind of grating early on. It was a 'where the hell is this going' film viewing experience. But as it developed and I started to get more of an idea of what the director/writers were trying to do I came to apricate it more. It is extremely strange, very creative, and sublimely surreal at times. There's a lot of showiness to this whole thing, but ultimately there is a point behind it, and more of a point then 'Swiss Army Man' had.
The whole construction of the piece, which at times feels hap hazard, I would have to describe as intricate. The central performances by Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, and Johnathan Ke Quan are all good, and Jamie Lee Curtis is a national treasure. Not for everyone, but I'd give it ***
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