Everything Everywhere All At Once is Absurd!
From the
moment Key Huy Quan’s character Waymond Wong eats an entire stick of lip
balm, in order to access the martial arts abilities of one of his counterparts
in the multiverse before he absolutely dominates in a fight scene against some
IRS security guards using only his fanny pack as a weapon…. Absurdity comes to
mind. If felt like a fight scene straight out of a Jackie Chan movie. Shanghai
Noon to be more specific. If was awesome and funny and oh so weird. But
wait there’s more… the Protagonist Evalyn Wang a little while later while still
trying to make her way out of the IRS building ends up trying to prevent a bad
guy from shoving a butt plug shaped trophy up his butt, so that he can’t access
the fighting skills from His counterpart. Yep, you read that correctly…this
film takes what we think of as absurd and pushes it to another level. I think
this is a movie you watch with other people just to see each other’s reactions.
I totally agree when I watched the fighting scenes in the IRS office I was either cringing, laughing, or oh so confused. My husband even watched it with me and we just kept looking at each other and laughing (him more than me). But this movie is sooo absurd that when I did the reading for this week I was really confused on what I was even going to be writing about until I watched this film.
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