The Reel Rejects - EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Movie Review!!

Episode Date: June 19, 2022

ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING! Never saw the Everything Everywhere All At Once Trailer (on this timeline), but here's my Review (immediately following the Reaction) to the movie everyone has been talking about in 2022 - starring Michelle Yeoh, Andy & Brian Le from Martial Club, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie lee Curtis, and Stephanie Hsu. REACTION HIGHLIGHTS on YouTube & FULL LENGTH (Sync-Up) WATCH ALONGS at Patreon.com/TheReelRejects!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Depending on which timeline you're on, you know, who knows what this introduction is going to sound like. I'm not, depending on what timeline you're on, maybe I'm in this reaction. But it is not so on this timeline because it's time for Greg's immediate review, reaction to everything, everywhere, all at once. The film of 2022 at the moment. This was a movie I was so excited to see his reaction to. it's my favorite movie in a long time and I think he would probably say the same it's a really really special one so if you haven't seen it

stop what you're doing go watch it come back and then listen to this review but yeah if you want to catch the highlights those are over on YouTube you can catch a bunch of a big medley of moments and reactions and comments and whatnot over there YouTube.com slash the real rejects or if you want to sync up with your own copy it's at least on demand I think or by the time you're watching this it might even be on home video listening to the...

You get what I mean. Anyway, however you're experiencing this on your particular timeline, yeah, come on over to patreon.com slash the real rejects and sync up and join along, have a ball, and it really is a ball of this movie, among many, many, many other things. And it's one that I have not tired of talking about, nor have I stopped thinking about. So I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as we did. And without further ado, here is Greg's immediate review. of everything everywhere all at once from the Daniels starring Michelle Yell and

Kikwan and Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Shoo here we go also shouts out to Marshall Club hell yeah Marshall Club good for them we did an interview with Andy Lee back in the day which you can also check out on the channel it's a lot of fun anyway on to the review The fucking Russo brothers produced this shit. I have not seen Swiss Army, man. God damn, that was... I need to...

I need to stand. I'll be right back with you guys. I'm just going to stand around this room for a second. Oh, boy. I keep an ice pack on my lower back when I... Oh, boy, holy shit. That was a fucking experience right there. I've never...

Oh. Christ. Recoop. Recoop. Love how I put this mic up here, and I... really fucking talk to all I did was just get lost in this film. So, it's for sure. Of the beginning, I was like,

that looks like Jamie Lee Curtis. And it is Jamie Lee Curtis. And I never clarify that I realized for sure it was Jamie Lee Curtis. So I bet there's a lot of comments of people saying, Greg, it is Jamie Lee Curtis. Oh, how to just... It's not the credits for him. That is...

so overwhelming I was not expecting that I had to know what to expect I thought I was gonna get like a cool it was that was like a cool experimental multiverse movie you know and then hearing the uh just ran to the mic and hearing that uh you know like brand anywhere in this movie like okay it's probably like a fight scene I don't I had no idea I don't think anything could have prepared me for this uh that the amount of hype i've heard about this film the amount of insane hype did not do it justice for me this was so wow that was um it's like i need to rewatch this i need to go again i need to watch this in the theaters i'm glad i got to experience this the first time with all of you i was

not expected to fight choreography by by them oh sweet they did the fight choreography fuck yeah i didn't know that glad i'm sticking around for the credits uh yeah i need to process this for a little bit i guess the one thing i would say while the credits are rolling is this is the kind of movies you know like i'm not going to try to sit here and try to sound all like intellectualize everything because there's so much here on every front from the from the writing directing the set pieces the performances the themes uh there's there's so much and it moves at such a incredible pace this really could have been a movie that could have been frustrating and

annoying and yet for me it wasn't it's just one of those movies you feel that's that's what it is. You just feel this experience. Don't overthink it. You know, you just go with it. You either go with it or you don't. I have never experienced a movie like this ever. This is originality at its finest. And I do not blame anyone who saw this first and then watch multiverse madness. And then, because I've heard that so many times. I'm not believe, I'm sure many of you have to, people that I have talked to who usually tell me their opinion about this movie. And I don't dive into it because I'm like, no, I just want to watch. I don't get details other than the fact that I hear people love it.

But yeah, when they compare this, yeah, I imagine I would like multiverse of madness less if I watch this within the same week of going. Now, there's so much more they could have done, though, because this just gets you in every way. I feel like I just fluctuated between it being exciting and it being like emotional, you know. This was a great character study and they utilized the multiverse traveling for this character, Evelyn, to truly grow and discover things about herself, learn things about herself. And to have a story that's so massive and so expansive and so wild and experimental and trippy, but to really just have it be about, like, at its core, it's such a simple, story at its core. You know, it's a story about a mother and a daughter, essentially, is about Evelyn and the pain she's held on to and how it's affected her appreciation and her treatment towards her loved ones. And then living in the shadow of her dad, like at its heart, there's just a damn good Asian fan.

family drama and then really but then the backdrop it's this crazy multiverse world of you know because it's like resentment begetting resentment generational trauma familial trauma i mean if you go my did my 23 me test and all kinds of Asian and then Italian European stuff but growing up my identity association was always Italian there's no post credits going up my identification was always a Italian in Filipino, but I 100% like primarily grew up with my Filipino side, seeing a lot of the family stuff and especially my mom, my mama always talking to me about taxes all the time for years about taxes, especially when I started living off a YouTube channel, always about taxes. Yeah, there's like definite things that I've, not just in my own, you know, immediate family,

but being surrounded by a lot of Asian American friends who, and then be. being privy to their families, and then seeing some of, you know, a lot of that is very much reflected here. But they just told such a beautiful story at the end of it all. It's hard. It's just such a, it's such a beautiful story conquering through the power of love. That's why I think it's so great because as wild as it is and as, as heady as it is, it's really so simple. and it's amazing they managed to make a movie that's so easy to the so easy for audiences to to grasp on to it's a lot to keep up with but i'm never but and it's overwhelming in in the ways that feel right you know because you just got to you kind of got to get swept up in the tone and the music

and its style and the surprising relationship with with the irs auditing lady jb lee curtis and how that forms and learning to put your walls down and and and just be learning to be vulnerable like this brought out something so vulnerable out of me, like a movie about learning to be more in tune with how you feel underneath and just to be honest with yourself and be honest with the ones you love, but also to appreciate, like such great, simple values, you know, told in this like poetic way. And I loved how this Evelyn character, I guess I was going to go out to the kitchen and grab a piece of bread, but I guess I'm talking right now. I love how this Evelyn character, as she's explores the universe is every version of Evelyn. Let me adjust this a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, right up in my

fucking mouth. It's really really so much of what she was experimenting with so much of what she was seeing with like the other versions of herself were these people who were, you know, kind of dead set and sort of like had a calling, you know, not every one of them, but most of them seem to have like a specific kind of purpose and a calling. And then with Evelyn being the one who just kind of rejects the plans and rejects her true desires conforms and doesn't actually, like in every universe you start to see reflections of who she is. Like I thought that was really cool. Like even in her blossoming scene career, her dad is still hovering over her shoulder and

watching her. Our Evelyn that we're watching, you know, because she's the one who ultimately kind of failed at so many things and not going after what she really wanted to be. And she's able to sort of absorb and become everything, you know, because she kind of feels like she's nothing. She can become everything. She's like the wild card. I thought that was so beautiful because so much of this inspirational message is about learning to let go.

And, yeah, like, and talking on a universe, on a universe level, my fiance is obsessed with, like, astronomy and all that space trash. She's even tried getting me to listen to this audio the other day. but my mind was caught up in all its own and all the things that I had to get done that day and she wanted me to listen to this. I know what the speech was, but they're really popular, like one of the most famous speeches about space. The bits I was able to eventually get lost into is like, yeah, you really do realize that if we get caught up in so much shit on Earth. But really, you know, our time is so finite. It's so limited here.

Yet we get so caught up in circumstances and the immediacy and everything about, you know, society and satisfying this, satisfying that. Yet, you're just a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of the universe, not even a fraction. Like, the universe is so massive and expansive that we might as well just kind of try to enjoy our lives. And as easy as to say that, I do not live by that. I just, I don't. I don't live by that. I get caught up when this is done rolling. I'm going to be caught up probably most likely.

And, you know, having to, like, import this footage and get everything, and get to work on editing. like it's just going to immediately be caught up in that instead of just like let me slow down a little bit and try to appreciate and tell someone I love them but maybe I'll take that lesson with me because this was one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen you know as someone who loves to write myself is one of those films that it feels like kind of daunting in a sense of god will I ever I could I don't know if I could ever write something this this great this grandiose because this was beautifully written everything was just so fucking thought out like everything is so thought out and they do not have the Marvel budget. Like I get it. I don't want to make this video just comparing this to

multiverse of madness, but I get it. I get why people do it because yeah, there's a lot of very similar plot-driven thing. Even the fucking villain of the movie is a scorn, scorn woman. The nuances they bring and the performances are so powerful, so effective everyone. Michelle, yo, yo! She killed it. She was amazing. She was everything everywhere all it. She was amazing. Holy shit balls, man. It wasn't catching the names of the actors, but, you know, the ones played Joy and Weyman. Wow.

Holy crap, like the, you know, especially the guy plays Wayman. The different portrayals he had to do, like going in and out of the corkiness, the strong, determined fighter of a husband who's inspired by his universe is Evelyn Alpha version, right? The Wayman who looks like he is from a certain perspective. looks weak, but you realize he's not really weak. That love and kindness is his strength in learning to accept that and be supportive, you know? I thought it was such, like, everyone does such a beautiful job in that, the character, Joy, I forget the villain name, but her performance too. They ask a lot of everyone here because everyone here does not have to just do emotionality stuff,

but everyone has to be so physical. And I'll just mean in terms of like the fight scenes, but even like the littlest quirks they have to be so physical about when switching in and out of these characters, you know, whatever they're being affected by multiverse wise. Everyone's required to do so much in this film. And they all deliver. The dad, another great one. Like, everyone brought so much depth in humanity and so much more. Like, this is across the board for everyone here. And they all brought something deeper underneath the eyes. If that make, I feel like that makes sense. Yeah, they all brought something deeper underneath the eyes. And I'm like, how do you

direct a film? Like my mind is spinning right now because I'm like, how do you direct a film like this? How do you get the actors on board? How are the actors absorbing this while they're making this movie? The set photography, the production design was, was wild and like there's things in here where I'm like, God, I got to see a YouTube video that goes frame by frame on all this, all those crazy like match cuts between all the universe. I got to see how that all works. It's like the kind of movie you want to like study and and and revisit because yeah this was transportive you know it's really it's you know as part of the the weird part about doing the reaction stuff you have to make commentary especially because this is that's how you make it more fair use and of course it has to be

cut up but at the same time you know like the the main goal when you're when we're covering like a show or movie is just to do our best to get lost in it but I'm always like kind of aware there's a camera there and this was probably the first movie I've seen ever with on the maybe I don't know actually it certainly feels that way though I've never been that like lost in a in a film before with a fucking camera pointed at me that really put me in a whole new level you know like I forget about the lights and and all that because yeah I was just lost in it when I bring people on here I'm like yeah the main thing is you know just experience it and just you know whatever

you're feeling internally let it out you know whether that be through commentary in between when characters are talking or when uh or just show it with your actual emotions that was happening so subconsciously without me like aware of it at all like this was breaking me internally sure there's some shit with me with identifying like because my my with like anytime i see old asian people i think of my family that's just where my mind goes i think of my family There's parts of Michelle Yo's character that definitely reminded me of my mom. It's not a one-to-one comparison, but there were enough shades of it that were reminded me of my mom.

Beyond that, I don't even think if that was the case, I still would have been just as moved. You know, I was, I was insanely moved by this film. And I wasn't expecting to walk into a movie that I was, I was going to be that emotional about because it's also a love story at the end of the day. It's like, it's this love story. It's a, it's a, it's just a story about relation. Like, how do they do that? how they make something that was just so goddamn personal and about relationships that was so

intimate but bigger than marvel's multiverse of madness like how do they do that and it's also like a filmmaking movie you know working with the the four by three dimensions when it's just like this frame black borders on the side and then going from widescreen and kind of be like we're an action movie mode and then knowing when to go full screen like it looks like they experimented with different lenses throughout this. Yeah, the amount of insane creativity on board without making you lose sight of the heart at the end of the day. End of the day, heart. That was wild. I've never experienced something like this before. I don't see any movie getting better than this this year. I want to watch it in the theaters. That might be one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

Wow. Wow. It's ethereal. The sweeping. It was adventurous, ambitious, creative, innovative. I think Michelle Yo should definitely be considered for, I think all of them should be considered for Oscar consideration, even though I do think Oscars are bullshit. I think it's just going to be a big reality show. I do think in terms of performances, I know it's so early on in the year. but god damn please do not forget about Michelle yo's work here because she was phenomenal like wow like there's so many different genres spliced into here god my mind just flashed like how the fucking like the way they managed to make like craziness and then go to like the talking like the rocks and make the rocks feel like such a tender sweet moment damn this was a movie that creates passion it's like the simple story just like I don't want to live my parent shadows anymore That's what it all really comes down to. And if I don't do that,

live under that rule and forgive and accept thyself, you can have a more loving, grateful life. Like, that's really what it's all about. This is the kind of move I want to call people up and talk to them about whoever's seen it because no one, I'm glad everyone did not kind of, a big thing is something about me is a lot of times if I go to screen screenings or premieres,

I don't really talk to people too much afterwards because a lot of times it feels like it's a competition for who can give out their, review to me right away. You know, that's what everyone wants to do. It's like, they'll, they'll ask, like, what do you think of the movie? But 99% of the people who are asking that are just waiting to give their review of the film. So I just kind of give like one or two sentences. And with this, I'm glad that everyone I know did not review the movie for me. They just kind of gave me like a quick opinion, but just heavily encouraged me to see it. I got to watch it again. I got to watch

it again. You pick up all the details because this was magnificent and beautiful. I thought it might I've been overhyped. I thought it was actually at the end of it, I thought it was underhyped. That was a revelation of an experience. Holy shit.

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