Everything Everywhere All at Once is nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture, Lead Actress Michelle Yeoh, Supporting Actor Ke Huy Quan, Supporting Actress Jaime Lee Curtis, Supporting Actress Stephanie Hsu, and Best Director Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert. The movie is about Evelyn Wang who learns there is a multiverse that is in danger, and she is the only one can save it. The film stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Harry Shum Jr., Jenny Slate, & Jamie Lee Curtis.

I saw this in honor of the Oscars that is airing this upcoming weekend. AMC Theaters has been showing the Best Picture Oscar nominated films. This is a unique movie. It is very strange. That is not necessarily a bad thing. I thought it was an interesting movie. It is one that makes you think about things. The multiverse is nothing new and has been a concept that has been covered in Marvel and DC. The Arrowverse on television dealt with the multiverse. Marvel is currently in their Multiverse Saga. Everything Everywhere All At Once handles the multiverse in a different way.

There is a slow build until the multiverse comes into play. Once it gets going, it really ramps up. The film has an absurdity to it. It is not afraid to play with the absurd and it can get absurd sometimes. Through all the multiversal shenanigans the heart of the movie is about Evelyn and her family and her life. Without spoiling too much, Evelyn gets to see the lives she could have lived in other universes. This played into the What If? scenario which is something everyone has asked themselves at one point or another in their life. Evelyn is unhappy in her life and feels she has accomplished nothing. This journey really changes everything for her and changes her relationships with her family.

Everything Everywhere All at Once covers a lot of ground. It clocks in at two hours and twenty minutes. It is both big and small at the same time. When it goes big and when it gets absurd it never loses the heart of the film which is family. The movie explores Evelyn’s relationship with her daughter Joy and her husband Waymond. It never loses sight of those relationships.

Similar to when I saw Elvis, it is hard to say if I enjoyed Everything Everywhere All at Once. It did make me think and it was a strange and bizarre ride. Out of multiverse movies this is definitely the kookiest. It also has a simplistic but powerful message that really hits home toward the end of the movie. In terms of its Oscar nominations, I think it has a good shot at winning some, but we will have to wait and see how it plays out. I don’t know if this will get Best Picture. It may have the edge over Elvis, Avtar: The Way of Water, and Top Gun: Maverick. I don’t know if it could beat the other nominees. I think Michelle Yeoh has a good shot at winning her first Oscar as well as Ke Huy Quan. The only category that is tough is Supporting Actress. If the movie can win Supporting Actress Jamie Lee Curtis is the front runner between her and Stephanie Hsu, but Angela Bassett is still a front runner in the category altogether who is nominated for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Whatever happens, Everything Everywhere All at Once has accomplished a lot.