Everything Everywhere All At Once is a sci-fi, comedy, and action film that thrusts some of the planet's most famous actors into a truly surreal multiverse. In an era where superhero movies have shone a spotlight on the concept of the multiverse, Everything Everywhere All At Once is a refreshingly unique take on alternate realities. Unlike in the MCU's multiverse concept, the cast of Everything Everywhere All At Once is alone in playing the various alternate versions of themselves.
The result is a universe-jumping supernatural comedic drama that's absolutely bizarre, even for 2022 standards. Not surprisingly, the movie was written and directed by the creative duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, also known as the Daniels – the same minds behind the surreal 2016 comedy Swiss Army Man. While Everything Everywhere All At Once is undoubtedly a unique take on the now-overplayed concept of the multiverse, the movie is, at its core, about defeating a great evil and reconciling with family.
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Everything Everywhere All At Once wears its unorthodox cinematic storytelling on its sleeve. Through its alternate realities, the movie pays homage to the Matrix franchise, the MCU, and even Wong Kar-Wai's tragic romantic films. In order to bring this ambitious narrative to life, the Daniels brought on a crew of both world-famous and relatively unknown actors.
Evelyn Wang is an aging Chinese-American immigrant who finds out that she exists across multiple universes. The role is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges for actors Michelle Yeoh, who plays different versions of Evelyn throughout the character's arduous journey of discovery. Today, younger
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