The self-described “maximalist filmmakers” rose to fame directing such sublimely insane music videos as DJ Snake’s “ Turn Down for What” (a twerking odyssey starring Kwan) and the Sundance Directors Award–winning surrealist dramedy Swiss Army Man (in which Daniel Radcliffe stars as a farting corpse). Um … yeah!ĮEAAO’s writer-directors, Daniels - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - cram in a truly absurd number of outside cinematic references, visual allusions, non sequiturs, in-jokes, and cultural flotsam harvested from distant fringes of the internet because, as they put it, “This movie is about everything.” The pair single out Hong Kong cinematic sensualist Wong Kar-wai (for whom Everything Everywhere All at Once co-star Ke Huy Quan formerly served as as an assistant director) for special appreciation, along with the chef-protagonist of the animated rat romp Ratatouille (who is chopped and screwed by Daniels into a deliciously bizarre anthropomorphic animal called Raccacoonie).
The vehicle for that destruction: an obnoxiously literal bagel created by Evelyn’s nemesis, the nihilistic god-queen Jobu Tupaki (Stephanie Hsu), imbued with the power to suck everything into its black-hole-like vortex of nothingness. Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn, a scatterbrained laundromat owner with mounting debt and a crumbling marriage, who finds herself unwittingly thrust into the multiverse: literally tripping and kung-fu kicking her way across multiple dimensions, tapping into the power of alternate selves via “verse jumping” and, incidentally, trying to prevent the destruction of reality as we know it. In the mind-bend-y, meta-narrative, sci-fi/comedy-drama/martial arts extravaganza Everything Everywhere All at Once (which arrived to ecstatic reviews in theaters nationwide Friday), it is perhaps fitting that an everything bagel - of all things - should be deployed as a doomsday device. Warning: Spoilers! Moreover, this post won’t make a ton of sense if you haven’t seen the movie.
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