Everything Everywhere All At Once Puts Marvel's Multiverse To Shame
Warning! This post contains spoilers for Everything Everywhere All At Once.
The daring use of the multiverse concept in Everything Everywhere All At Once arguably puts Marvel's multiverse to shame. The kaleidoscope of a film imagines Michelle Yeoh as a tired wife and mother busy trying to save her failing laundromat business and marriage when suddenly she learns that she is the only person who can save the multiverse. Everything Everywhere All At Once was directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinhart, collectively known as Daniels, who previously directed the Daniel Radcliffe vehicle Swiss Army Man. It's also a comeback film for Ke Huy Quan, who acted as Short Round alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Quan plays Waymond Wang, the husband of Yeoh's character Evelyn. Everything Everywhere All At Once is a tour-de-force for Michelle Yeoh.
Multiverse movies have become extremely popular in the last few years. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, one of the best-received multiverse movies, won the Best Animated Feature Oscar in 2018. Both the DCEU and the MCU are expanding into their respective multiverses, Marvel's next multiversal movie being the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Despite some heavy hitters using multiverse concepts in their blockbusters, Everything Everywhere All At Once outdoes them by creating a multiverse that is whimsical and inventive but still manages to make sense. Evelyn and Waymond own a laundromat and are being audited by the IRS. While on their way to a meeting with an IRS inspector named Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), Alpha Waymond takes over Waymond's body and warns Evelyn about a great evil that is bent on destroying the multiverse, an evil only she
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