This movie is an acid trip, a fever dream in a multiverse that you were never expecting. Evelyn
Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is a Chinese immigrant who moved to the United States with her husband
Waymond Wang (Ke Huy Quan. Yes he played Short Round and was in the Goonies) This film
with a small central cast is jam-packed with well-choreographed action, clever lines, absolute
hilarity (seriously, be careful when you take a drink during the film).
The movie may at first feel confusing because the audience is feeling what Evelyn is going
through as she travels dimensionally through different universes and various versions of herself.
She had never been good at anything. Everything that she had began as hobbies, interests
have always fallen on the wayside as she has lost interest in every creative endeavor that she
had attempted.
She doesn’t understand her daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) and has no connection to her
daughter’s interests, and still introduces her girlfriend Becky (Tallie Medel) as her friend. Joy
definitely feels that her mother doesn’t see her. In fact, Evelyn doesn’t see much. She deals with
surface issues. The Wangs are just trying to get their taxes done which brings them to the IRS
and Agent Dierdre Beaubierdra (Jamie Lee Curtis) taking a turn as the most exacting auditor at
the IRS.
This movie is an absolute visual delight. The fight scenes are so well done, the slow-motion
movements captured with hilarity. The Daniels’ have made a great movie that is full of comic
turns with each universe becoming more absurd than the previous. The casting was spot on
with all of the characters, from Chad (Harry Shum), the teppanyaki chef, to Big Nose (Jenny
Slate) and Evelyn’s Father Gong Gong (James Hong).
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the story form as the pace becomes a frantic race to save
humanity. It is a definite joy ride through Evelyn’s mind. Go see this in the theaters is very worth
the time!
5 out of 5
