Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Not my genre and too long at 2:19 but I did laugh from time to time as Chinese immigrant Evelyn travels between parallel universes. Highly rated, with a high body count and lots of blood and mutilation, it has hints of Inception; The Matrix (1999); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); Kill Bill (2003 and '04); and the Keystone Kops (1912-17), with a dash of family melodrama. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn (she also starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Ke Huy Quan plays her husband Waymond (not a typo), and Stephanie Hsu their daughter, who refers to at least one of their worlds as a “swirling bucket of bullshit.” Also appearing are Jamie Lee Curtis and Jenny Slate, among others, and Randy Newman lends his speaking voice to Raccoonie.

It is directed and written by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who sometimes use the collective name Daniels.

The music by Son Lux (Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia, and Ian Chang) is available on Apple Music and elsewhere, and here is a list of songs.

Yeoh was last blogged for Crazy Rich Asians, Curtis for Knives Out, Slate for I Want You Back, and Newman for scoring Marriage Story (he also scored Ratatouille, which is referenced in the Raccoonie gag). Quan was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), The Goonies (1985), Encino Man (1992), and 27 episodes of Head of the Class (1990-91), among other credits. This is the third feature for Daniels after a bunch of shorts and music videos, and this is Son Lux's second feature as composer, while Lott singly scored Paper Towns (2015), which I apparently forgot to write up back then.

Told ya it was highly rated: 95% from Rotten Tomatoes' critics and 89 from its audiences.

You can take a break at 1:25 with an hour left. I took more breaks than that. Jack did not watch it when I rented it August 1 on Apple TV/iTunes.