everything everywhere all at once
Everything Everywhere All at Once was a bit too much.
That's both a pun and my actual assessment of the movie. There are some things I loved about the movie. There are some things I very much didn't like. Overall, it does a couple fun things, does a bunch of obnoxious things, and makes a point or two that have been made elsewhere.
The premise is that the main characters are able to jump from universe to universe by doing absurd things. It starts harmless - a man eats his chapstick. This is sufficiently unlike his "self" in this universe that it causes him to "jump" to another dimension. The things that the characters do in order to jump get stranger and more disturbing as the film continues.
The "strange" dimensions that they jump to range from delightful (like the universe where they're just rocks talking to each other, or the dimension where instead of Ratatouille, they've got a real life Racacoonie with Raccoons sitting on their heads controlling them) to unpleasantly grotesque (like the universe where they have hot dogs for fingers so they use their feet to do everything).
The overall message is: we can be anywhere doing anything, but we choose to be here with the ones we love. Be kind to one another and stop fighting. Nothing matters.
There's a lesbian relationship at the center of the storyline and one of the major resolutions in the movie is when the older characters learn to accept that "love is love".
There is no unpixelated nudity, the violence is mostly stylized, and the language is pretty tame. I don't recommend it because it uses dildos, butt plugs, and phalluses throughout the film and the writer seems to think that's hilarious. I found it very off-putting. I feel like it was very creative, but was a little too weird for me to really enjoy it.
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