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Here is my full reaction to Everything Everywhere All at Once!

This movie was incredible! It was imaginative, well paced, and had quite an emotional message. I'm so impressed with the editing since there were so many versions of reality all blending together so seamlessly. In a world full of endless distractions, it's so important to be focused on the here and now.

Watched on: HBO Max / Runtime: 2:19:20

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(Full Reaction) Everything Everywhere All At Once

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Michael Kemmet

Yes yes yes yes yes. Rarely clicked faster. One of my favorite films of all times, and the movie that got me hooked into reaction channels. It won ALL the Oscars. ;) Picture, Director, Screenplay, Editing, Actress, Actor, and Supporting Actress(Curtis). Also nominated for Supporting Actress(Hsu), Original Score, Original Song, and Costume Design. It's one of those films that has to have a second Wikipedia page just for the awards and nominations.

Paulo

I love this movie i happy you enjoyed it. I think this movie did a good job disarming the viewer making them think that it’s going to be a silly fun movie and at the end it catches the viewer off guard and hits it with a semi full of emotions.

Joe

I loved this movie. There was so much meaning and emotion behind such a crazy premise. I will never look at an everything bagel the same way again. One of the craziest things is that despite all the amazing and award worthy performances by the actors in this movie, the scene that hit hardest was between two rocks in a universe where nothing happened. Wow, those rocks can act.

Michael Kemmet

Just a handful of movie tidbits(there will be chapters written about this movie in film study coursework, if not entire books): On one level, it's a film about nihilism vs. existentialism using absurdism as a medium. But it's also a film about generational trauma, specifically in Asian-American families. But it's also a story about su!cidal depression. But it's also a love story. But it's also a sci-fi fantasy. But it's also... One of the writer/directors chose to have Evelyn be ADHD to partially explain her behavior. While doing the research to be accurate, the writer/director realized HE was actually ADHD himself(got an official diagnosis to confirm and sought help/treatment). This movie got Ke Huy Quan back into acting. He started as a child actor in the 80s, but left acting by the 90s after realizing Asian-Americans were getting no good parts. The success of Crazy Rich Asians got him to reconsider, and this film project won him over. Not only did it net him a(well-deserved) Oscar, it completely reignited his career and led to one of the great Oscar presentation moments. (His former co-star Harrison Ford(Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom - 1984) was the Best Picture presenter the year EEAAO won it.) The special effects were done by a team of nine(five core), mostly self-taught, visual effects artists. Done on a total production budget of about $15M-$20M. The emotional whiplash is intentional for a very good psychological reason. Feeling humor opens us up feeling sadness, which opens us up to feeling humor. By whipsawing back and forth, the movie breaks down our emotional callouses and cynicisms, which opens us up to the emotional climaxes of the film. The extreme weirdness(dildo weapons, hot dog fingers, butt plugs, etc.) are there to shake us up for the same reasons. There's some amazing language stuff going on that only Mandarin/Cantonese speakers(I am not) get right off the bat. When it's Evelyn, Waymond, and Joy speaking Chinese, they're speaking Mandarin. Joy's not great at it, but she can get by. Evelyn and Waymond also speak Mandarin when they're alone together. But when Gong Gong speaks, it's always in Cantonese, which is what was likely spoken in the household as Evelyn grew up. And Joy is very bad at Cantonese. Here's the thing: When Evelyn gets stressed during conversations with Joy, she often reverts to Cantonese, a language Joy can barely understand. It's another subtle level to their communication difficulties. I could go on and on(and on), but that's enough from me.

Mike Smith

This movie is so inventive and entertaining, but I find its philosophical framing deeply unsatisfying. It keeps circling back to the idea that nothing matters, so be nice anyway. Supposedly an uplifting message. While I’m grateful the movie rejects full-blown despair, its answer, choosing love and kindness in a meaningless universe, feels like a cop-out. It’s like a person who numbs their depression with SSRIs without ever asking why existence feels so unbearable in the first place. The film itself keeps circling this tension. Waymond sees Jobu Tupaki as dangerous because she has collapsed into the belief that nothing matters and acts accordingly. But if nothing matters, what basis is there for calling her dangerous, and why would it matter? The film treats her as clearly mistaken in a way that’s hard to square with its own premise. I suspect the filmmakers sense this tension but don’t resolve it directly. The “everything bagel” is the clearest expression of it: once everything is treated as equal, meaning collapses. Existentialism doesn’t really answer that problem; it just reframes it as something you live with while still choosing connection. At the same time, the movie’s emotional force is real. Evelyn’s shift toward connection, especially in contrast to Jobu’s detachment, lands because it treats certain relationships as genuinely worth holding onto, not just arbitrarily preferred. That is where the film is strongest, even if it doesn’t fully account for why that strength feels binding rather than optional. We instinctively know nihilism doesn’t hold up in real life; we still treat meaning and goodness as real, even when we try to deny it. The movie wants meaning, love, goodness, and sacrifice to matter, without fully grounding why they do. Meaning is not something we invent to cope with existence. It is something we discover. It is not subjective. It is objective. Reality is not random or self-made, and neither is the meaning inside it. We don’t make meaning, we find it.

Darren P

easily one of my favorite reactions to this movie! a lot of people get thrown off by how chaotic it gets, but you stayed locked into the story and the emotional core the whole time. really impressive for a blind first time reaction. i feel like your thoughts at the end were spot on with what the movie was trying to say too. loved watching this!

Minibeast

Okay, how was she more unaccomplished than the rock version?

Ed Scoglio

First time watching and I see why it won all the awards it did!!! Very well deserved! I appreciated that it gave us a rather complex idea, but it never felt like it went over our heads or was too complicated to follow!

Phillip Arthur

This film was amazing!!! Late response apologies!!! This was amazing!!! I couldn't believe that this movie shed a few tears. Great reaction Mrs. Jax ❤️❤️