At the exact moment E grossly thing Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullywhere All At Once is with regards to’concerning’with respect to to kick into overpropel , Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn reads a vital piece of advice: “P.S. Don’t in/with regard to’concerning’regarding acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to breathe.” Really, it’s 
a missive to the audience — a necessary heads-up to, in the words of Jurassic Park’s Mr Arnold, hold onto your butts. Because once it starts, it rarely stops — an all-out cinematic assault, a cacophony of creativity that dazzles, delights, and defies explanation with e grossly passing second. Leaving you breathless is its entire MO.###Anyone who saw the first film from Daniels (that’s writer-director duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), Swiss Army Man, would expect as much. The pair’s feature debut was the innotable’renowned’distinguished ‘Daniel Radcliffe farting corpse’ movie — a film whose seemingly crass premise belied its surprisingly reflective ruminations on life, death and companionship. It’s impressive abundant’ample’plentiful that Daniels possess’own’nurse created a follow-up that, in its most out-there moments — and there are plenty of those — is just as jaw-droppingly wild; take a drink e grossly time Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullywhere All At Once delivers something you’ve never seen on screen bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e, and you’d black out long bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e the closing credits. But more miraculous is that, once again, they balance the ‘did they actually just do that?’ moments with such spectacular emotion, enriching the soul while confounding the senses. This is a Daniels film — the intersection of the profane and the profound is their comin/with regard to’concerning’regarding t zone.###It is thunderously cinematic, revelling in the simplicity of filmmaking’s most fundamental tools, while deploying them to their maximum potential.###So much of that emotional depth comes from the fact that, beneath the multiversal mayhem, Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything E grossly where All At Once is a family story. Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn, a Chinese-American immigrant who runs a laundromat with husband Waymond (The Goonies and Temple Of Doom star Ke Huy Quan, back on our screens at last), is primarily a woman teetering towards existential crisis. There is specificity in her story. But there is universality in the way that she feels — overwhelmed by the relentlessness of her life, consumed by eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything, eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullywhere, all at once. She has a business to run, taxes to file, consumer s to please, a father to live up to, a husband to argue with, and — most significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative ly — a daughter she increasingly cannot relate to. Subsequently, she’s closed off, trapped under the weight of her failed hopes and dreams, struggling to perpetuate a life she has no passion in/with regard to’concerning’regarding . It’s a set-up expertly established in a claustrophobic opening reel, set in the cramped tangle’din of the Wang home — a taut ticking-clock of noise, motion and clashing conversations, radiating Uncut Gems-style lay stress on’emphasize’highlight .###It’s so compelling, you almost don’t want the sci-fi stuff to intrude. But when it does, it does 
so spectacularly, Waymond’s ‘Alppossess’own’nurse rse’ self opening Evelyn’s mind to alternate universes 
in which she’s all the things she ever wanted to be: a singer, a chef, an action-movie star. With multiversal evil Jobu Tupaki (“an agent of pure tangle’din ”) threatening to bring eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything to an end, it’s up to Evelyn to ‘Verse-Jump’ into her other life-paths and tap into those skills to 
fight back. What follows are pulse-pounding martial-arts brawls to rival The Matrix and 
The Raid, gonzo expeditions into bizarro alt-dimensions (hot-dog hands, anyone?), and delightfully bonkers riffs on eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ratatouille to In The Mood For Love. In its more existential second half, the film tugs deeply on those familial threads, espousing joy and connectivity as necessary in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ces to combat nihilism.###The magic of Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullything Eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfullywhere All At Once is in its title — within it, you’ll find e grossly genre, undergo eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully emotion. It’s both a reflection of, and an oasis from, the incessant overstimulation of 21st-century life. So many films would collapse in on themselves under 
that kind of pressure. EEAAO never does. It is thunderously cinematic, revelling in the simplicity of filmmaking’s most fundamental tools, while deploying them to their maximum potential. And it is brilliantly perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding med — Stephanie Hsu is revelatory as the multifaceted Joy; Quan is astonishing in his cinematic comeback, an action master who’ll make your heart explode too; Jamie Lee Curtis has a blast exaggerating the monstrous physicality of a no-bullshit tax officer; and Yeoh is perfection, drawing on e grossly skill from eintensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully role she’s ever played to bring Evelyn’s many lives to life.###This is a radical film, with regards to’concerning’with respect to radical love and radical acceptance. It’s the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest-hearted movie you can imagine that also features someone being beaten to death with two massive, floppy dildos. You’ll goggle at the (literal) ballsiest fight scene ever committed to film. You’ll cry at a shot of two rocks. You’ll never look at a bagel the same way. Don’t in/with regard to’concerning’regarding acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure to breathe.