‘Everything is everywhere at once’ ★★★
Address Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
interpreters Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis
premiere June 3, 2022
who knows the first movie Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, ‘Swiss Army Man’ (2016) – Starring Daniel Radcliffe as a corpse bloated enough to function as a jet ski – you won’t be surprised at the levels of eccentricity and creativity the latter displays. ‘Everything is everywhere at once’ It is a fantastic tale of personal acceptance and family reconciliation, in which its characters use butt plugs to acquire superpowers and giant dildos like ‘nunchakus’, embellished with spectacular martial arts circling the world. spectrum of the multiverse to encompass almost the entire history of mankind. To do so, she focuses on a Chinese immigrant embittered by both a job she hates and a husband she no longer connects with and a daughter she doesn’t understand. An epic journey through all the alternative lives one can live confronting an evil agent of chaos who threatens to destroy everything.
Based on this premise, daniels That’s what the duo call themselves – taking their protagonists to wander through office complexes that have been turned into violent battlefields, universes where people eat hot dogs for fingers, parodying ‘Ratatouille’ substituting rats for raccoons, and many other Chinese references to Hong Kong, Kong and American films and in the process make him alternate with a Chinese opera singer, a ‘kung fu’ student, the star of the ‘Wishing to Love’ (2001), an anthropomorphic piñata and even a stone with feelings. Meanwhile, directors edit scenes, lines of dialogue, and images with camera movements and A fast-paced montage that packs what could have been fourteen movies into a single 140-minute movie. In other words, ‘Everything Everywhere’ does justice to its title.
All in all, it’s an incredibly creative film that’s utterly dazzling and at times captivating, but often tiring and even boring. What contributes to creating this feeling is Kwan and Scheinert’s desperation to influence their show, their disinterest in giving their characters personality—even their protagonists lack more substance by default than the identity of the actress who represents them provides, Michelle Yeoh-, the relatively low percentage of funny moments that work, and the hypersensitivity to which the movie insists, trying to convince us of the importance of valuing the love and beauty that surrounds us. In short, the Daniels have too many ideas and are madly in love with all of them, failing to understand that if they brush aside the bad, the good will seem even brighter.