I always love seeing people watch this movie for the first time, because it's never what anyone expects it to be, and it just moves you in the most special way.
I definitely didn't. From the little bit I knew from trailers, I was just like, "a neat little indie multiverse flick? I like multiverse films, I'll check it out." Ended up in tears with a new favorite movie of all time. It's amazing how much every bit of this shouldn't possibly work on paper, but somehow all fits together perfectly, with *layers* of thoughtfulness and emotion on top of the absolutely most ridiculous shit 😂
When it was revealed that this movie had a minuscule (by Hollywood standards) budget of only $25 Million, and that all of the Visual Effects were done by 5 guys on their laptops working from home during the Pandemic, I was floored.
The producer said on a Q&A that the actual budget was $14.3 millions. I wonder whether the difference between $25M & $14.3M was compensation for the above-the-line talents, e.g., directors/writers, actors. It's hard to see how they can squeeze talents' pays and production costs into $14.3M.
Yep. And the VFX for the Bagel was literally one of the artists going, "Oh, hey, I just started using Blender and made this with it; cool, huh?" And the Daniels being like, "That's perfect, let's use that" 😂 Who needs fancy industry software when a free 3D modeling program does the job?
I've watched a lot of reactions to it, and sometimes people edit through the "we have to be kind" speech enough that I manage to hold it together. Other times... like this one... they leave enough in that I'm in tears again 😅
This has become one of my favourite movies ever, and every time I see it I find new details. Its really a masterclass in foreshadowing. The first time Evelyn verse jumps she has to tell Deidre that she loves her, because Deidre believes she's unlovable, and that's ultimately how Evelyn helps her in the end. Showing her she's not. When Evelyn stops Gonggong from shooting Joy she talks with Waymond's voice, because that's how Joy is saved. By Evelyn learning to think and fight like him. I also realised that the first guard Joy kills turns into confetti because she switches him with the piñata universe. And I think Gonggong changes his mind about Joy because he meets Becky. Up until that moment he's only known Joy to destroy, but meeting Becky shows him that she can also love.
Thank you for explaining that talking with Waymond's voice part, I never connected that! One thing _I_ discoverd in this latest viewing is that the racoon is another version of Waymond (Alpha-Waymond he refers to it before the racoon scenes).
The directors have confirmed that Evelyn likely has ADHD, in fact one of the Daniels realised he had undiagnosed ADHD while making the film. With that lense, i noticed that in all the universes where Evelyn was successful she had something to keep her on track. Alpha Evelyn was hyperfixated on versejumping, and succeeded to the detriment of everything else, including her relationship with her husband and daughter. In the Opera verse, she's blind, which takes away the extra visual distractions. In the kung fu verse she meets a mentor who constantly keeps her focused, even when going to the film premiere. Also, regarding Alpha Joy, being such a natural at versejumping means she must have been the worst Joy of all the universes.
The little details we didn't catch like she being blind and not having things to distract her are crazy! Amazing little details we can't catch first watch
@@kristywestaway As a fellow ADHD-haver, I find some comfort in just calling myself a sort of "jack-of-all-trades" and find the positives in that title. Like I can't say I've mastered any skill, but I know a little-decent amount about a lot of things. That's helpful in social situations because it's more likely you'll have a common hobby/interest with someone. Things you're interested in or learn will usually stick with you to some degree, and that knowledge may be useful later in life when you least expect it. It's definitely a struggle though.
25:34 - So these two guys are Andy and Brian Le they were found on RUclips (Martial Club) they are two brothers who live with their parents out in California and they choreographed this ENTIRE film. Every fight scene. It is truly incredible. They also LOVE to participate, which is why they are in the film. The directors and producers (The Daniels) are both in the film as well, one of them is the man who likes being spanked and the other is the first person ‘taken’ by the bagel. This film not only was made with an EXTREMELY low budget, but was made by a team of people who committed to the film mostly because they heard Michelle Yeoh had committed. Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t even read the script before saying yes, I can also say I wouldn’t have either, this team was built around commitment and family. It reaches the extent that there are emotional scenes shot with one person in Nevada and the other in Paris, you’d have no idea. 🤷🏻♂️ When they were on set, they all describe papers flying everywhere, quick costume changes, and then cut being yelled, after cut EVERYONE the stars the directors would all be picking up the mess they had just made, so they could make it again. That type of environment is not even 1 in 1000 on a movie set it truly is 1 in a million. That is what made this film work. If someone had an opinion, it was heard and used in the film. This is the direction movies need to head. It shouldn’t cost 400 million dollars to film a movie. $11.4 million during the pandemic that is what this film cost. It won 7 Oscars, and changed so many lives.
Holy shit, thank you for sharing; no wonder the movie felt like such a beautiful whirlwind with all of those creatives throwing their passion into one huge pot and letting it simmer
My thought when Mike says he's out of words @ 12 minutes in: "Oh my sweet, summer child." This movie goes HARD. 50 years from now, it will be taught in film schools.
Michelle Yeoh is an amazing martial artist who’s been doing the majority of her own stunt and fight work for 30+ years now! It’s so awesome to see an actress in her 60s absolutely crushing such a physically demanding role.
Somebody asked her in an interview if it's true that Jackie Chan thinks girls can't be martial artists. Yeoh said "he did think so, until I kicked his ass".
@@migmit Jackie Chan himself acknowledges it. It refers to the filming of the 1992 movie Police Story 3: Supercop. Michelle Yeoh was so extreme with her stunts that Jackie Chan felt intimidated and took on even more crazy stunts himself to outdo her. That film has what is for me the craziest stunt ever, when Michelle Yeoh jumped onto the roof of a coach of a moving train on a motorcycle (I work on the railway so I know how dangerous that was). The backstory is also interesting. Michelle Yeoh started as a ballet dancer, then her mother forced her to take part in a beauty pageant which she won. But this gave her the opportunity to act in Hong Kong movies. She saw that film kung-fu and stunts in general are lot like dancing, that's what motivated her to start doing her own stunts. However, when she married a producer, she stopped acting. Unfortunately for her but fortunately for us, her marriage didn't work out, and after the divorce, she got back into film. Police Story 3: Supercop was her comeback, and she gave it all to succeed.
Michelle Yeoh is NOT a martial artist. Never was. But she was a great dancer till she hurt her back. She repurposed her dance skills into parts in kung fu movies. Her background as a dancer enabled her to learn and perform sophisticated martial arts choreography quickly on the movie set.
My favorite movie before this was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, which has a similar vibe but this pushed it further. Both absolutely wild, one second funny then the next second you're tearing up. This beat that out thought. I knew it was going to be good, but it was even more than I ever could have expected.
This movie is SO deep, and hard to grasp on the first watch. It takes 2-3 watches to REALLY get it and get over the absurdity and catch all the little hints and tie-ins. This is my favorite movie of all time.
Awesome. Thanks for an unexpected delight, guys. I wasn't expecting another EEAAO reaction, thought the film had been played out for a while. If anyone ever asks what EEAAO is about, the best answer I've heard so far is "It's about the weirdest IRS audit you'll ever see."
(french here who adores EEAAO) So great to see your reactions specially at 35:00 when you are all very moved by Waymond's words. I think this movie are for the most empathic people. And you know as a star wars fan, I just realized that the Daniels (who are big fans too) used the reverse sentence (I'm your father/I'm your mother) in their movie. Love this movie, can't get tired to see eveyone reacted to it and be as amazed as I was. Take care, keep the good work. p.s : sorry for my english
Amidst all of the silliness, there is a movie with a profound foundation in how an ordinary person living an ordinary life can plod on nevertheless (and never enter the bagel). Optimistic nihilism is the ability of a person to create his own meaning after fully accepting that the universe is a large place of meaninglessness. A person can choose to be Jobu, or choose to be like Waymond, and in that choice that person creates meaning for their otherwise meaningless lives.
I'd heard a few hard-core movie buffs I know say this film was amazing so I decided to see it in a theater without knowing anything but the main actors and it blew my mind. It crushed at the Oscars this year: "“Everything Everywhere” took home seven Oscars on Sunday night, including best picture, director, original screenplay, lead actress, supporting actress, supporting actor and editing."
Great reaction! I saw this in the Theater and cried my eyes out. Normally this type of reaction to a movie would keep me from going back to watch again where everyone can see me get so emotional, but with this one I didn't give a shit, I went back and watched it 2 more time (3 total) and then bought it as soon as I could. A couple fun facts you might appreciate: 1) The budget for this movie was a tiny $25 Million - Freaking Insane!! 2) They filmed this movie in only 38 days due to the COVID lockdown that occurred. Also unbelievable but true. 3) OFC it won every Oscar, but some ppl are pretty pissed Best Supporting Actress went to Jamie Lee instead of Stephanie Hsu (the daughter). The explanation is that the Academy was doing a 'make-up award' type situation since they've never given Jamie Lee an Oscar. I also agree it should have gone to Stephanie. 4) Not sure if you realized it, but Ke Huay Quon (Waymond) was the actor who played Data and Shortround in Goonies and Indiana Jones respectively. He gave up acting for about 40 years due to a lack of roles for Asian actors in Hollywood. His Oscar acceptance speech is worth watching. 5) The S&M guy who gets spanked is played by one of the Directors (Daniels). The 2 'butt plug' actors are actually the stunt coordinators in the movie. Anyways, great reaction and thanks for reading if you've made it this far!!
Absolutely amazing film. Saw it twice in the theatre and many times on video. It reallly gets even better on rewatch. Nothing else like it! It changed me. Havent been the same since
Immediately became my personal favorite movie of all time. I watched it with my brother and mom and we all stared at each other in shock for about 5 minutes and then had an hour long discussion that would have gone longer if we all didn’t have to work in the morning lmao.
A very good review, you were really unsuspecting reactors! I don't see others mentioning it, so I add this one detail: the bagel and Waymond's googly eyes are inverses of each other (black dot in white vs. white dot in black).
No, the alpha verse Joy- Jobu- did not go into the black hole bagel in the end. At the last moment we see her arm _reaching out of_ the void, and Evelyn pulls her back out. The detail is important because it shows that- as she admits to Evelyn in the rock universe- she did in fact want to be saved
I think this my favorite movie ever! It was such a treat watching you react to it, with no preconceived notions. I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I love watching people watch this movie. And ... here is something to think abut - That scene where Evelyn is shown in all the places, especially the one where there is the Crazy Rich Asian's universe - my thought is that we are NOT in the universe this story is at....but in the one where Michelle Yeoh is the actress....THAT is where we are at. We are sitting here, watching a movie that occurs in another universe!
Its about all those things, but also inter-generational trauma, and healing inter-generational trauma. Its about the daughter losing herself to depression and despair and the whole family overcoming their issues and healing them to help draw her back to hope.
Not just hope, but the daughter was trying to commit suicide. My favorite scene is when the rock rolls off the cliff and the mom goes after her and they collide in a hug. She saves her daughter with love. I'd never ugly cried / bawled SO HARD in my life and this was in theaters into a COVID mask drenched with tears!! Only wish my asian mom could understand the movie so I could share this with her. I'm a HUGE movie buff and this was the best movie I've ever seen. UGH.
Thanks for the fantastic reaction, very glad you all loved it. Watching Mikey with the paper cuts was great fun! The more I've watched this movie and think about it, the more I love it. For all the silliness and WTF moments, it packs such a powerful emotion punch. And, at least for me, for a movie dealing with serious subjects like depression and regret, it still makes me feel good albeit exhausted emotionally. What is the saying: If nothing matters, everything matters. There are lines in this movie that just choke me up like "I Would Have Really Liked Just Doing Laundry And Taxes With You." Another remarkable thing about this film is that the special effects team consisted of only 5 people. Lastly, who would have every thought a movie with butt plugs, talking rocks, and hot dog fingers would win best picture at the Oscars. Very glad it did.
Oh, I also wanted to say, regarding the Hot Dog universe ... if you go back and watch it, whenever Dierde (Jamie Lee Curtis) shows up, a version of Clair De Lune is playing. And, as she is playing the tune with her toes....she is actually hitting the correct keys on the piano.
I'm a piano player and I fell off my chair laughing when Dierdre's toes started accurately playing the starting notes of Clair de Lune on the keyboard! Oh my god......hahahahahahaha
I've only seen one reactor join me in not realizing what Jamie Lee Curtis' awards actually were. "I'm sorry. It's a girl." This is related to the Chinese one child policy. People wanted male children to carry on the family name, etc. This movie is the most batshhit crazy thing I've seen yet actually loved. Racaccoonie is voiced by Randy Newman, ironically, as it was one of the Pixar films he didn't do the music for. In the actress universe, she does say, "Of course" in English. Unstated is that Evelyn has ADD. The Daniels wrote and directed the film. One of them was the ball gag guy. I think the other one was the guy who was being torn apart by the bagel. The return of Short Round/Data to acting after decades. There is so much in this, you can keep rewatching and it loses nothing. The budget was only $25 million and "a total of six digital artists led by Zak Stoltz, who doubled as a supervisor and producer, created nearly 500 shots." It won 7 of 11 Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress (2 nominations with Jamie Lee Curtis winning her first Oscar), and Best Editing, This is a small family drama spread across the entire multiverse.
China's one child policy began in 1980. Evelyn would already have been born. But you are right, China is a patriarchal society so having a boy is preferable to having a girl.
@needsleep2 I thought the policy was older, but I only turned 11 in 1980, so I would have learned about it later and probably wasn't taught when it began.
Yea it's from before the policy. Chinese culture has always preferred males. My dad is in his 80s, his mother had 3 children only him being a boy. She treated her daughters like shit until the day she died. It's so incredibly sad. My aunty is the most amazing person I've ever met, I have no idea how she dealt with all the hate and disrespect throughout her whole life from people who were supposed to love her.
I mean, I feel like that universe probably doesn't make or eat hot dogs for food, so the pets would treat the hot dog fingers the same way IRL pets treat human fingers 😁 ...and now I'm imagining puppies with little cocktail wieners for toe-beans, and it's kind of adorable as hell 😂
“She needs to make her bagel”. That’s actually SUCH a good way of putting it, as her bagel is the googly eye, the ying-yang to Joy’s bagel. They even fit in eachother! It’s the two different types of nihilism. So good!
Saw the Daniel's documentary and when they said the movie had almost no cgi, I had to do a double take and rewatch it. The cgi was pretty much just like the bagel.
my best experience in a cinema was during this movie, during the rocks scene: everything was silent, but everyone was laughing. It was sucha profound experience... it was amazing!
Amazing movie. Like why and how does this movie work?! How is it so ridiculous and so emotional at the same time. Great reaction. I love Mike and Mikey bitting their lips trying not to cry. HA.
had so much fun watching this with y'all! this movie is such a clusterfuck but y'all really kept up pace with it which i love to see. i tried watching it with my mom and she checked out as soon as waymond ate the chapstick😭
I saw it with my mom at home. As soon as they started talking about the multiverse in the elevator, she checked out and left the room. She came back around the time of the final conversation between Evelyn and Joy, said it looked great, but that she didn't understand it. And I was like, "....well, yeah, because you missed 2/3 of the movie!" 😅
Great Video Guys! This movie also overloaded me the first time I watched it lol. Watching it again I was able to find SO MANY MORE THINGS like how the guy who dies to the bagel and the guy who is spanked ARE THE DIRECTORS lol.
You can tell when some guys have never watched /read any science fiction before. Not a criticism, just an observation. But still, thank you for the reaction. Enjoyed it.
Best movie. The guy in the middle noticed a surprising amount of details on first viewing. Watch it again. It's air tight and only gets better. Deidre had a brace around her wrist because she drove her Kia Forte through her husband's kitchen. Evelynn's "bagel" is the googly eye. It's the opposite of the bagel, a white circle with a black center.
You saying this makes you feel the same things as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is so shockingly real … like obviously this is the better film, but Walter Mitty was also an often absurdly silly movie that struck an emotional chord and left me with a deeper appreciation for being alive … what a great comparison that never would have occurred to me.
Love this movie. It's so silly one second and then extremely emotional another. Wonderful writing, wonderful premise, and wonderful execution. Reminds me of Jett Li's The One mixed with Sense8, which you should watch both if you haven't ;P
Such an amazing movie to cover a huge range of emotions and philosophical concepts, in the context of a science fiction(ish) action film. Unlike most people who I talk to about the film, I love the hot-dog fingers universe, because once you get past the admittedly off-putting visuals, the themes addressed in that world are so powerful. Almost as strong, in my opinion, as CEO Waymond and Action Star Evelyn and the Rock scenes. Those two worlds are my favorite by far.
@@732ReviewCrew I think it was a big step along the way. First, she is herself in a lesbian relationship in that world. And then she does experience the love, as you say, for someone who is "unlovable". I really like that after she comes to understand this in the hot dog world, she and Jamie Lee are sitting on the bench and their interactions are so different from up until that point. Smoking some cannabis, commiserating about failed marriages, discussing whether Jamie Lee is "unlovable", hugging it out. It's a rather subtle element in a film that is not subtle in so many ways.
We are very familiar with vapes, cannabis vs nicotine, as we live in a recreational state (NJ) and Mikey worked at a vape shop in college (nicotine vapes) . We could be wrong but it looked like a nicotine vape.
🤣 I've watched this film quite a few times, and with allot of reactors. There's always at least one person in the group who keeps saying, "What is happening."
I’m the second part of the movie where she had the party that is not Evelyn’s original universe. Remember alpha Raymon said that she had two choices either she can stay and fight or go home. Evelyn’s universe is if she stayed and fight. The universe she was in the beginning of second part was the universe if she just went home and finished her taxes and had the party.
This movie always makes me think of this specific quote from (wildly enough) a D&D show; "The first rule of existence is: as above, so below. People are fractal images of the universe. You are as we are. Bad things happen to good people because things happen all the time, and it is up to people to determine whether they are bad or good. In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you mortal beings are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares, and if you don't, then it doesn't."
I love this movie. It makes you wince at papercuts, laugh at buttplugs, and cry at rocks... ❤ Also, if Mikey wants to hug and make out. I am very cool with that. #LetsWatchWRECKITRALPH&beDudes #TaxesAndLaundryWithMikey
This was at the theaters the same time as Doctor Strange 2: Multiverse of Madness... and this did such a better job with the Multiverses... Made Doctor Strange 2 look like hot dog water...
I hate to admit it, but I've never seen this film from beginning to end, on my own. I've only seen a couple of reactors reacting to it. I do hope to get a chance to watch it all, though. I would like to watch it with my sister, but I'm afraid she might not "get it" and just think it's a pile of doodoo. She's really not a very empathetic person. She's a good person and has compassion, but she's not so empathetic or observant. But I might try anyway. I pretty much enjoyed all of your reactions to it, but reservedly, at first, because I find it a little confusing. At first, I thought Joe didn't like it because he looked so sullen, like the movie just jumped the shark too much for him. And Mike and Mikey were laughing at everything but seemed more confused by it all than anything else. But at the end, I realized that you were all just feeling the emotions that the film was making you feel. And Joe was all weepy, kind of. Which was really cool. I really do need to see the whole movie before I can pick a favorite part. I'm leaning toward the conversations between Michelle Yeow's character and her father character, and by extension the conversation she had at the end with her daughter. Anyway, great reaction, guys! See you soon!
In the end, Evelyn was pulled out of her 'noise' and learned how to live in the present rather than dreaming about an alternate life that she could have lived. She learned to appreciate the good that she had in her life and realised that in any lifetime, there are always difficulties and no path is entirely 'better' than the one you are on. You just have to make the most of what you have and not forget to live and be grateful for your life and blessings.
This movie caused me to have an emotional response to a rock...an F-ing rock.
We're right there with you...
Same! I couldn't believe it!
And to cry from sadness and laughter simultaneously.
In another universe, the rock won Best Supporting Actress
"Just be a rock" - such a simple message that means so much.
One of the sweetest lines in the movie that hit me was "you need to grow your hair". She's got two daughters now.
Thank you, this just made me cry again!
I always love seeing people watch this movie for the first time, because it's never what anyone expects it to be, and it just moves you in the most special way.
No one would ever expect that such a deep, moving film would also feature Laurie Strode drop-kicking Short Round 😂
I didn’t know what to expect. It’s just A Lot. …but not in a bad way.
I never expected to get emotional over 2 silent rocks talking to each other.@@lilkat42
All of this.
I definitely didn't. From the little bit I knew from trailers, I was just like, "a neat little indie multiverse flick? I like multiverse films, I'll check it out." Ended up in tears with a new favorite movie of all time. It's amazing how much every bit of this shouldn't possibly work on paper, but somehow all fits together perfectly, with *layers* of thoughtfulness and emotion on top of the absolutely most ridiculous shit 😂
The universe where they were both successful was the saddest because there's no Joy in it.
And how the whole movie was fearing and fighting Joy when all was needed instead was to embrace Joy in whatever form it took.
That's our universe. And we are safe because JoJO can't reach us
When it was revealed that this movie had a minuscule (by Hollywood standards) budget of only $25 Million, and that all of the Visual Effects were done by 5 guys on their laptops working from home during the Pandemic, I was floored.
Well damn we didn't know that awesome fact
Fancy cast requires big budget. They *REALLY* saved on vfx since the Daniels were involved 😂
The producer said on a Q&A that the actual budget was $14.3 millions. I wonder whether the difference between $25M & $14.3M was compensation for the above-the-line talents, e.g., directors/writers, actors. It's hard to see how they can squeeze talents' pays and production costs into $14.3M.
Yep. And the VFX for the Bagel was literally one of the artists going, "Oh, hey, I just started using Blender and made this with it; cool, huh?" And the Daniels being like, "That's perfect, let's use that" 😂 Who needs fancy industry software when a free 3D modeling program does the job?
"Where did he get a gun?"
Gong Gong is strapped in EVERY universe.
I’ve seen this movie like 10 times and I still cry like a baby every time. So fucking good
I've watched a lot of reactions to it, and sometimes people edit through the "we have to be kind" speech enough that I manage to hold it together. Other times... like this one... they leave enough in that I'm in tears again 😅
This has become one of my favourite movies ever, and every time I see it I find new details. Its really a masterclass in foreshadowing.
The first time Evelyn verse jumps she has to tell Deidre that she loves her, because Deidre believes she's unlovable, and that's ultimately how Evelyn helps her in the end. Showing her she's not.
When Evelyn stops Gonggong from shooting Joy she talks with Waymond's voice, because that's how Joy is saved. By Evelyn learning to think and fight like him.
I also realised that the first guard Joy kills turns into confetti because she switches him with the piñata universe.
And I think Gonggong changes his mind about Joy because he meets Becky. Up until that moment he's only known Joy to destroy, but meeting Becky shows him that she can also love.
Thank you for explaining that talking with Waymond's voice part, I never connected that! One thing _I_ discoverd in this latest viewing is that the racoon is another version of Waymond (Alpha-Waymond he refers to it before the racoon scenes).
The directors have confirmed that Evelyn likely has ADHD, in fact one of the Daniels realised he had undiagnosed ADHD while making the film. With that lense, i noticed that in all the universes where Evelyn was successful she had something to keep her on track.
Alpha Evelyn was hyperfixated on versejumping, and succeeded to the detriment of everything else, including her relationship with her husband and daughter.
In the Opera verse, she's blind, which takes away the extra visual distractions.
In the kung fu verse she meets a mentor who constantly keeps her focused, even when going to the film premiere.
Also, regarding Alpha Joy, being such a natural at versejumping means she must have been the worst Joy of all the universes.
The little details we didn't catch like she being blind and not having things to distract her are crazy! Amazing little details we can't catch first watch
I have ADHD and that line about being good at nothing always hits me
@@kristywestaway As a fellow ADHD-haver, I find some comfort in just calling myself a sort of "jack-of-all-trades" and find the positives in that title. Like I can't say I've mastered any skill, but I know a little-decent amount about a lot of things. That's helpful in social situations because it's more likely you'll have a common hobby/interest with someone. Things you're interested in or learn will usually stick with you to some degree, and that knowledge may be useful later in life when you least expect it. It's definitely a struggle though.
25:34 - So these two guys are Andy and Brian Le they were found on RUclips (Martial Club) they are two brothers who live with their parents out in California and they choreographed this ENTIRE film. Every fight scene. It is truly incredible. They also LOVE to participate, which is why they are in the film. The directors and producers (The Daniels) are both in the film as well, one of them is the man who likes being spanked and the other is the first person ‘taken’ by the bagel. This film not only was made with an EXTREMELY low budget, but was made by a team of people who committed to the film mostly because they heard Michelle Yeoh had committed. Jamie Lee Curtis didn’t even read the script before saying yes, I can also say I wouldn’t have either, this team was built around commitment and family. It reaches the extent that there are emotional scenes shot with one person in Nevada and the other in Paris, you’d have no idea. 🤷🏻♂️ When they were on set, they all describe papers flying everywhere, quick costume changes, and then cut being yelled, after cut EVERYONE the stars the directors would all be picking up the mess they had just made, so they could make it again. That type of environment is not even 1 in 1000 on a movie set it truly is 1 in a million. That is what made this film work. If someone had an opinion, it was heard and used in the film. This is the direction movies need to head. It shouldn’t cost 400 million dollars to film a movie. $11.4 million during the pandemic that is what this film cost. It won 7 Oscars, and changed so many lives.
Holy shit, thank you for sharing; no wonder the movie felt like such a beautiful whirlwind with all of those creatives throwing their passion into one huge pot and letting it simmer
And the effects were done by five people basically on a laptop and learned how with RUclips videos.
The middle guy GET it.
My thought when Mike says he's out of words @ 12 minutes in: "Oh my sweet, summer child." This movie goes HARD. 50 years from now, it will be taught in film schools.
Michelle Yeoh is an amazing martial artist who’s been doing the majority of her own stunt and fight work for 30+ years now! It’s so awesome to see an actress in her 60s absolutely crushing such a physically demanding role.
Somebody asked her in an interview if it's true that Jackie Chan thinks girls can't be martial artists. Yeoh said "he did think so, until I kicked his ass".
@@migmit Jackie Chan himself acknowledges it. It refers to the filming of the 1992 movie Police Story 3: Supercop. Michelle Yeoh was so extreme with her stunts that Jackie Chan felt intimidated and took on even more crazy stunts himself to outdo her. That film has what is for me the craziest stunt ever, when Michelle Yeoh jumped onto the roof of a coach of a moving train on a motorcycle (I work on the railway so I know how dangerous that was).
The backstory is also interesting. Michelle Yeoh started as a ballet dancer, then her mother forced her to take part in a beauty pageant which she won. But this gave her the opportunity to act in Hong Kong movies. She saw that film kung-fu and stunts in general are lot like dancing, that's what motivated her to start doing her own stunts. However, when she married a producer, she stopped acting. Unfortunately for her but fortunately for us, her marriage didn't work out, and after the divorce, she got back into film. Police Story 3: Supercop was her comeback, and she gave it all to succeed.
Michelle Yeoh is NOT a martial artist. Never was. But she was a great dancer till she hurt her back. She repurposed her dance skills into parts in kung fu movies. Her background as a dancer enabled her to learn and perform sophisticated martial arts choreography quickly on the movie set.
No shame in tears bro, I cry everytime i get to part two.
My favorite movie before this was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, which has a similar vibe but this pushed it further. Both absolutely wild, one second funny then the next second you're tearing up.
This beat that out thought. I knew it was going to be good, but it was even more than I ever could have expected.
This movie is SO deep, and hard to grasp on the first watch. It takes 2-3 watches to REALLY get it and get over the absurdity and catch all the little hints and tie-ins. This is my favorite movie of all time.
Awesome. Thanks for an unexpected delight, guys. I wasn't expecting another EEAAO reaction, thought the film had been played out for a while. If anyone ever asks what EEAAO is about, the best answer I've heard so far is "It's about the weirdest IRS audit you'll ever see."
"It's a movie about laundry and taxes"
"Rock dogs, depression, and love."
(french here who adores EEAAO)
So great to see your reactions specially at 35:00 when you are all very moved by Waymond's words. I think this movie are for the most empathic people.
And you know as a star wars fan, I just realized that the Daniels (who are big fans too) used the reverse sentence (I'm your father/I'm your mother) in their movie.
Love this movie, can't get tired to see eveyone reacted to it and be as amazed as I was.
Take care, keep the good work.
p.s : sorry for my english
Your English is more than fine! Do not worry. Thank you so much for your kind words
Amidst all of the silliness, there is a movie with a profound foundation in how an ordinary person living an ordinary life can plod on nevertheless (and never enter the bagel). Optimistic nihilism is the ability of a person to create his own meaning after fully accepting that the universe is a large place of meaninglessness. A person can choose to be Jobu, or choose to be like Waymond, and in that choice that person creates meaning for their otherwise meaningless lives.
Creating meaning in a meaningless universe is philosophical suicide. I recommend you look into absurdism, I think it describes this movie better
I'd heard a few hard-core movie buffs I know say this film was amazing so I decided to see it in a theater without knowing anything but the main actors and it blew my mind. It crushed at the Oscars this year: "“Everything Everywhere” took home seven Oscars on Sunday night, including best picture, director, original screenplay, lead actress, supporting actress, supporting actor and editing."
Best decision you could have made! I will never forget seeing this for the first time in a theater with a packed crowd.
Great reaction! I saw this in the Theater and cried my eyes out. Normally this type of reaction to a movie would keep me from going back to watch again where everyone can see me get so emotional, but with this one I didn't give a shit, I went back and watched it 2 more time (3 total) and then bought it as soon as I could.
A couple fun facts you might appreciate:
1) The budget for this movie was a tiny $25 Million - Freaking Insane!!
2) They filmed this movie in only 38 days due to the COVID lockdown that occurred. Also unbelievable but true.
3) OFC it won every Oscar, but some ppl are pretty pissed Best Supporting Actress went to Jamie Lee instead of Stephanie Hsu (the daughter). The explanation is that the Academy was doing a 'make-up award' type situation since they've never given Jamie Lee an Oscar. I also agree it should have gone to Stephanie.
4) Not sure if you realized it, but Ke Huay Quon (Waymond) was the actor who played Data and Shortround in Goonies and Indiana Jones respectively. He gave up acting for about 40 years due to a lack of roles for Asian actors in Hollywood. His Oscar acceptance speech is worth watching.
5) The S&M guy who gets spanked is played by one of the Directors (Daniels). The 2 'butt plug' actors are actually the stunt coordinators in the movie.
Anyways, great reaction and thanks for reading if you've made it this far!!
$25m was the estimated budget in an early report. The actual budget according to the Daniels and producer Jonathan Wang is $14.3m.
@@goofrider That's unbelievable, thanks for the correction! There are commercials that cost more than that!
Also I believe the stunt coordinators started out as RUclipsrs
Something like SIX* PEOPLE edited this film lol
Only 6? Wow.... Such amazing skill
Absolutely amazing film. Saw it twice in the theatre and many times on video. It reallly gets even better on rewatch. Nothing else like it! It changed me. Havent been the same since
Immediately became my personal favorite movie of all time. I watched it with my brother and mom and we all stared at each other in shock for about 5 minutes and then had an hour long discussion that would have gone longer if we all didn’t have to work in the morning lmao.
A very good review, you were really unsuspecting reactors!
I don't see others mentioning it, so I add this one detail: the bagel and Waymond's googly eyes are inverses of each other (black dot in white vs. white dot in black).
OH
Yes like the ying/yang thing ! I love this movie so much 🙌
No, the alpha verse Joy- Jobu- did not go into the black hole bagel in the end. At the last moment we see her arm _reaching out of_ the void, and Evelyn pulls her back out.
The detail is important because it shows that- as she admits to Evelyn in the rock universe- she did in fact want to be saved
I think this my favorite movie ever! It was such a treat watching you react to it, with no preconceived notions. I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for sharing it with us!
I love watching people watch this movie. And ... here is something to think abut - That scene where Evelyn is shown in all the places, especially the one where there is the Crazy Rich Asian's universe - my thought is that we are NOT in the universe this story is at....but in the one where Michelle Yeoh is the actress....THAT is where we are at. We are sitting here, watching a movie that occurs in another universe!
It's crazy and I absolutely agree. This is our head cannon
Its about all those things, but also inter-generational trauma, and healing inter-generational trauma. Its about the daughter losing herself to depression and despair and the whole family overcoming their issues and healing them to help draw her back to hope.
Not just hope, but the daughter was trying to commit suicide. My favorite scene is when the rock rolls off the cliff and the mom goes after her and they collide in a hug. She saves her daughter with love. I'd never ugly cried / bawled SO HARD in my life and this was in theaters into a COVID mask drenched with tears!! Only wish my asian mom could understand the movie so I could share this with her. I'm a HUGE movie buff and this was the best movie I've ever seen. UGH.
Thanks for the fantastic reaction, very glad you all loved it. Watching Mikey with the paper cuts was great fun! The more I've watched this movie and think about it, the more I love it. For all the silliness and WTF moments, it packs such a powerful emotion punch. And, at least for me, for a movie dealing with serious subjects like depression and regret, it still makes me feel good albeit exhausted emotionally. What is the saying: If nothing matters, everything matters.
There are lines in this movie that just choke me up like "I Would Have Really Liked Just Doing Laundry And Taxes With You."
Another remarkable thing about this film is that the special effects team consisted of only 5 people.
Lastly, who would have every thought a movie with butt plugs, talking rocks, and hot dog fingers would win best picture at the Oscars. Very glad it did.
the guy on the left only focusing on the world building and the guy in the middle only caring about the actual point of the movie is so funny
It's so hard to try and follow it all in one watch!
Oh, I also wanted to say, regarding the Hot Dog universe ... if you go back and watch it, whenever Dierde (Jamie Lee Curtis) shows up, a version of Clair De Lune is playing. And, as she is playing the tune with her toes....she is actually hitting the correct keys on the piano.
Gosh the details...
I'm a piano player and I fell off my chair laughing when Dierdre's toes started accurately playing the starting notes of Clair de Lune on the keyboard! Oh my god......hahahahahahaha
OMG I love this movie and I love you guys as a review crew! Settling in before the show with an early like and comment for ya!
Thanks for joining us! This movie was perfect
I've only seen one reactor join me in not realizing what Jamie Lee Curtis' awards actually were.
"I'm sorry. It's a girl." This is related to the Chinese one child policy. People wanted male children to carry on the family name, etc.
This movie is the most batshhit crazy thing I've seen yet actually loved.
Racaccoonie is voiced by Randy Newman, ironically, as it was one of the Pixar films he didn't do the music for.
In the actress universe, she does say, "Of course" in English.
Unstated is that Evelyn has ADD.
The Daniels wrote and directed the film. One of them was the ball gag guy. I think the other one was the guy who was being torn apart by the bagel.
The return of Short Round/Data to acting after decades.
There is so much in this, you can keep rewatching and it loses nothing.
The budget was only $25 million and "a total of six digital artists led by Zak Stoltz, who doubled as a supervisor and producer, created nearly 500 shots." It won 7 of 11 Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress (2 nominations with Jamie Lee Curtis winning her first Oscar), and Best Editing,
This is a small family drama spread across the entire multiverse.
China's one child policy began in 1980. Evelyn would already have been born. But you are right, China is a patriarchal society so having a boy is preferable to having a girl.
@needsleep2 I thought the policy was older, but I only turned 11 in 1980, so I would have learned about it later and probably wasn't taught when it began.
Yea it's from before the policy. Chinese culture has always preferred males. My dad is in his 80s, his mother had 3 children only him being a boy. She treated her daughters like shit until the day she died. It's so incredibly sad. My aunty is the most amazing person I've ever met, I have no idea how she dealt with all the hate and disrespect throughout her whole life from people who were supposed to love her.
@NQQ613 I'm sorry she was treated badly, but coming out the other side a great person really says something about her.
one of the best reaction to this movie. just discovered ur channel wow! i like the whole crew, i hope u grow fast in this community!
Watching the three of your brains absolutely shatter is hilarious!! 🤣🤣🤣
Top 3 theatre experiences I’ve ever had
The "Hotdog Universe" could NOT have had cats or dogs for pets... they would not have any hotdog fingers left!
I mean, I feel like that universe probably doesn't make or eat hot dogs for food, so the pets would treat the hot dog fingers the same way IRL pets treat human fingers 😁
...and now I'm imagining puppies with little cocktail wieners for toe-beans, and it's kind of adorable as hell 😂
Hey all! Here's the November winner sorry for the delay! Tried a new style for this one too! Let us know if you enjoy it and see you for December!
i recommended this one and I’m so glad y’all enjoyed it. great reaction btw!! this film is also in my top ten lol
“She needs to make her bagel”. That’s actually SUCH a good way of putting it, as her bagel is the googly eye, the ying-yang to Joy’s bagel. They even fit in eachother! It’s the two different types of nihilism. So good!
Evelynn's "bagel" are the googly eyes. This movie rewards multiple viewings. There's no possible way to catch everything on the first viewing.
@@koryeasterday5164 exactly!
So are you saying it's the... Eyeverything Bagel?
Saw the Daniel's documentary and when they said the movie had almost no cgi, I had to do a double take and rewatch it. The cgi was pretty much just like the bagel.
It was a lot of practical effects and just great camera work! This is the movie we recommend to everyone who asks!
The BEST reactions from the dude on the left.
my best experience in a cinema was during this movie, during the rocks scene: everything was silent, but everyone was laughing. It was sucha profound experience... it was amazing!
Amazing movie. Like why and how does this movie work?! How is it so ridiculous and so emotional at the same time. Great reaction. I love Mike and Mikey bitting their lips trying not to cry. HA.
We cry a lot okay! Men can cry 🫡. Glad you joined us
had so much fun watching this with y'all! this movie is such a clusterfuck but y'all really kept up pace with it which i love to see. i tried watching it with my mom and she checked out as soon as waymond ate the chapstick😭
I saw it with my mom at home. As soon as they started talking about the multiverse in the elevator, she checked out and left the room. She came back around the time of the final conversation between Evelyn and Joy, said it looked great, but that she didn't understand it. And I was like, "....well, yeah, because you missed 2/3 of the movie!" 😅
Great Video Guys! This movie also overloaded me the first time I watched it lol. Watching it again I was able to find SO MANY MORE THINGS like how the guy who dies to the bagel and the guy who is spanked ARE THE DIRECTORS lol.
Easter eggs galore in this movie! So many references to things I noticed when I was editing like the bagel
I love that it seems Daniel Scheinert wrote that into the script just so he could get spanked by Michelle Yeoh 😂
You can tell when some guys have never watched /read any science fiction before. Not a criticism, just an observation.
But still, thank you for the reaction. Enjoyed it.
Joy is lactose intolerant that's why she eliminated all of the cattle.
Same directors made Swiss Army Man. Seriously underrated. Also crazy, also moving.
No one said shit, but we all felt it. That laundry & taxes line hit hard.
Beautiful movie. Great reaction.
Best movie. The guy in the middle noticed a surprising amount of details on first viewing. Watch it again. It's air tight and only gets better.
Deidre had a brace around her wrist because she drove her Kia Forte through her husband's kitchen.
Evelynn's "bagel" is the googly eye. It's the opposite of the bagel, a white circle with a black center.
You saying this makes you feel the same things as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is so shockingly real … like obviously this is the better film, but Walter Mitty was also an often absurdly silly movie that struck an emotional chord and left me with a deeper appreciation for being alive … what a great comparison that never would have occurred to me.
Great reaction, guys! Y'all could have had a "what" counter for the number of times y'all said "What?!?" or WTF or "What is happening?" LOL
Love this movie. It's so silly one second and then extremely emotional another. Wonderful writing, wonderful premise, and wonderful execution.
Reminds me of Jett Li's The One mixed with Sense8, which you should watch both if you haven't ;P
Such an amazing movie to cover a huge range of emotions and philosophical concepts, in the context of a science fiction(ish) action film.
Unlike most people who I talk to about the film, I love the hot-dog fingers universe, because once you get past the admittedly off-putting visuals, the themes addressed in that world are so powerful. Almost as strong, in my opinion, as CEO Waymond and Action Star Evelyn and the Rock scenes. Those two worlds are my favorite by far.
Did she learn to accept Joy in the hot dog world? Because she experienced the love herself?
@@732ReviewCrew I think it was a big step along the way. First, she is herself in a lesbian relationship in that world. And then she does experience the love, as you say, for someone who is "unlovable". I really like that after she comes to understand this in the hot dog world, she and Jamie Lee are sitting on the bench and their interactions are so different from up until that point. Smoking some cannabis, commiserating about failed marriages, discussing whether Jamie Lee is "unlovable", hugging it out. It's a rather subtle element in a film that is not subtle in so many ways.
@@cobbycaputo3332 wait that was cannabis and not a nicotine vape?! Lol! Interesting
@@732ReviewCrew I thought that's why Jamie Lee says she feels like she's 14 again.
We are very familiar with vapes, cannabis vs nicotine, as we live in a recreational state (NJ) and Mikey worked at a vape shop in college (nicotine vapes) . We could be wrong but it looked like a nicotine vape.
All the feelings, all at once.
🤣 I've watched this film quite a few times, and with allot of reactors. There's always at least one person in the group who keeps saying, "What is happening."
At first it's so confusing!!
I’m the second part of the movie where she had the party that is not Evelyn’s original universe. Remember alpha Raymon said that she had two choices either she can stay and fight or go home. Evelyn’s universe is if she stayed and fight. The universe she was in the beginning of second part was the universe if she just went home and finished her taxes and had the party.
It was also made for $25 million. Yep thats it.and made $141 million worldwide
My wife kisses me just like Michelle Yeoh kisses him at the end. Moves me everytime.
This movie is something thats for sure
Thank you.Really.Thank you.
Thank you for joining us!!!
Yeah, this is hands down the trippiest movie I've ever watched! It wasn't at all what I expected after watching the trailer! 🤣
This movie always makes me think of this specific quote from (wildly enough) a D&D show;
"The first rule of existence is: as above, so below. People are fractal images of the universe. You are as we are. Bad things happen to good people because things happen all the time, and it is up to people to determine whether they are bad or good. In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you mortal beings are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares, and if you don't, then it doesn't."
That's a great quote, but there's a better one: "Magic is real, and so is my frog." 😂
this movie is a masterpiece because its runs the gamut of laughter and tears all at a high level
Secret life of Walter Mitty! Such a good reference great movie
Yes. The remake IMO is better than the original.
I love this movie. It makes you wince at papercuts, laugh at buttplugs, and cry at rocks... ❤
Also, if Mikey wants to hug and make out. I am very cool with that. #LetsWatchWRECKITRALPH&beDudes
#TaxesAndLaundryWithMikey
this is the best action comedy drama kung-fu sci-fi softcore pornography Ive ever seen.
Her bagel was already made. Its the family.
why the middle guy looks like Pedro Pascal?
Michelle has never taken any martial arts classes in her life.
Really?! Wow but she's been in so many movies. Fast learner
“What is happening?” 🥴
30:08 - I mean she looks a little like a white teletubby but I can dig it 😂
KE!!!
This was at the theaters the same time as Doctor Strange 2: Multiverse of Madness...
and this did such a better job with the Multiverses...
Made Doctor Strange 2 look like hot dog water...
20:20 that outfits is supposed to be modeled after a covid strain
I hope you guys like a new sub y'all watched my fav movie, seen my fav show, the expanse, and you've seen my favorite star wars show andor
Hell yeah welcome!!
I hate to admit it, but I've never seen this film from beginning to end, on my own. I've only seen a couple of reactors reacting to it. I do hope to get a chance to watch it all, though. I would like to watch it with my sister, but I'm afraid she might not "get it" and just think it's a pile of doodoo. She's really not a very empathetic person. She's a good person and has compassion, but she's not so empathetic or observant. But I might try anyway.
I pretty much enjoyed all of your reactions to it, but reservedly, at first, because I find it a little confusing. At first, I thought Joe didn't like it because he looked so sullen, like the movie just jumped the shark too much for him. And Mike and Mikey were laughing at everything but seemed more confused by it all than anything else. But at the end, I realized that you were all just feeling the emotions that the film was making you feel. And Joe was all weepy, kind of. Which was really cool.
I really do need to see the whole movie before I can pick a favorite part. I'm leaning toward the conversations between Michelle Yeow's character and her father character, and by extension the conversation she had at the end with her daughter.
Anyway, great reaction, guys! See you soon!
It's such a good movie. Worth it. Every moment will have you going from laughing to crying to emotional all on repeat!
the guy on the right probably didn't watch any marvel movies related to multiverse
In the end, Evelyn was pulled out of her 'noise' and learned how to live in the present rather than dreaming about an alternate life that she could have lived. She learned to appreciate the good that she had in her life and realised that in any lifetime, there are always difficulties and no path is entirely 'better' than the one you are on. You just have to make the most of what you have and not forget to live and be grateful for your life and blessings.
The guy in the middle looks so pissed off to be watching this movie with these two jackasses.