Michelle Yeoh travels between parallel realities in a delusional but exhausting fantasy comedy that has taken the US box office by storm.
The title already warns that we are facing a different film. Even the name of its directors, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, signed by Daniels, indicates the originality of the proposal. ‘Everything at once everywhere’ starts as a comedy of manners to suddenly introduce us to the land of the fantastic. More specifically in the metaverse, that parallel universe that plays so much in Marvel tapes and that here is not so spectacular, although it is much more fun.
Michelle Yeoh, the Asian superstar discovered by the world public thanks to ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ and ‘Tiger and Dragon’, appears very unglamorous as a Chinese immigrant in the United States, who runs a dilapidated laundry and puts up with a father who doesn’t speak a word of English and a lesbian daughter. Her husband, willful but dumb, will ring a bell: it’s Ke Huy Quan, that kid from ‘The Goonies’ and ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’.
The visit to a bitter tax inspector played by an ugly Jamie Lee Curtis will unleash travel through time and between parallel realities. It is advisable to be forewarned and get carried away by a madness in which anything can happen: flashes of lives that the protagonist could have lived, including as a sophisticated movie star, in a nod to Yeoh herself, martial arts fights, fantastic universes , sausage-shaped fingers and two rocks reflecting in the middle of a desert.
“‘Everything Everywhere’ is fast, furious and chaotic,” describes Michelle Yeoh. “It’s like pop art and pop music, where everything happens at the same time. But it’s also very much the world all millennials are used to: with the internet, information overload, constant acceleration. Beauty arises when you leave the cinema and think, look around you and discover that the world is as chaotic as what the story proposes.
The actress is correct in predicting that the younger audience that lives on the internet will enjoy more the avalanche of script twists and scenarios of a film that can exhaust the unannounced viewer, who is simply waiting for a comedy or a martial arts film. Her success at the Yankee box office certifies it.
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