Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) A24 📢 Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. 💰 Producers: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo, Mike Larocca, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang. 👫 Cast: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis. 🏆 Awards ceremony: -94th Academy Awards: March 12, 2023. Dolby Theatre, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. 🎭 Other films nominated for Best Picture this year: -All Quiet On The Western Front. -Avatar: The Way Of Water. -The Banshees Of Inisherin. -Elvis. -The Fabelmans. -Tár. -Top Gun: Maverick. -Triangle Of Sadness. -Women Talking. 📕 Plot summary: I just sat through this film for the project and I can honestly say I have no idea what it was about! I'm being totally serious. So, I copy/pasted this from Letterboxd (and I'll just take their word for it!): An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes. 💥 Standout scene(s): -When Big Nose launches her dog at Evelyn, swinging it around windmill fashion above her head and throwing it across the room. -The apes from Kubricks' 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - attacking each other with sausage fingers! -Joy attacking the guards with two gigantic rubber dildos! -Evelyn's incredible flashback sequence with lightning fast editing when she is in the laundromat later on in the movie. 🔑 Facts: -The 95th Academy Awards. -Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, it won 7: Best Picture, Director(s), Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Supporting actor (Ke Huy Quan), Supporting actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), Original screenplay, Editing. 🙂 Personal opinion: Where do I start? My 16 year-old daughter Emily and I spent the entire film just turning around and looking at each other with bewilderment and randomly bursting out laughing. I'm sitting here writing this and I honestly just don't believe what I just watched. After 30 minutes I found myself completely befuddled as to what the hell was going on and after 1 hour I just gave up trying to understand any of it and decided to just be entertained (for lack of a better word) by the whole spectacle of the bullshit flashing up on my screen. Every single person, with the exception of the editor, needs to give back their Oscar trophy to the Academy. The editing was uniquely interesting but as for the rest of it? The set decoration in Evelyn's apartment is filled with clutter that looks great on screen, resembling one of those "hidden objects" games you see. Jamie Lee Curtis walks around with an enormous gut and amplified breasts (surely can't be the same beautiful woman from Trading Places?), and wins a generous Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her troubles! Without a doubt, this is one of the most unusual, most bizarre, most confusing and most random films I have ever seen in my entire life. I have honestly never seen anything like it before - ever! Talking rocks, giant dildos, a pet dog being used as a weapon and being launched across the room on its leash, and that raccoon! There is a line in the film where Evelyn says, "It doesn't make any sense?" - sums it all up perfectly in my opinion! Did it deserve the Oscar? ❓QUESTIONABLE. 🦝 5/10

Review date: 16 August 2025