Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Everything Everywhere All at Once won a stack of awards. Let’s start with the multiverse. Everything that could possibly happen does in an array of parallel realties. Nothing and nobody is ever lost, even if they are. Overworked and overwrought, Evelyn Quan Wang (Michelle Yeoh) a Chinese-American immigrant, who owns a laundry, while being audited by the IRS inspector Deirdre Beaubeirdr (Jamie Lee Curtis), discovers that she is the multiverse equivalent of Buffy the Vampire slayer. The script was written for Jackie Chan, but then re-written for Michelle Yeoh. So lots of fighting scenes and kung do what you will.  She must connect with (download or verse jump) parallel universe and multiversions of herself to prevent her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) turning the multiverse into a giant bagel with the wrong topping that sucks everything into it. I suppose there’s a joke there about black holes and existential angst. The film also stars, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr. and James Hong in supporting roles. It had me thinking about those old Monkey Magic sagas that the kids used to watch, but with better fight scenes and dubbing. Overlong and repetitive (so like real life?) I’m sure in another universe a version of me didn’t watch it to the end. Although there is no end.