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The "laundry and taxes" line is an absolute killer.

This movie is a true gem that has so much depth and texture that you'll enjoy revisiting it from time to time. The part I appreciate so much is that the absolute randomness isn't just put in for laughs but actually used thoughtfully. The put in hot dog fingers but it's also a universe where Dierdre and Evelyn have a relationship that is also on the rocks and even little tidbits like Dierdre's hand brace is in her foot in that universe.

I love how the googly eyes and the bagel are yin and yang. The bagel is death (or in Jobu's case, suicide) and misery, while the googly eyes represent life and, well, joy. There's a method to this movie's madness and it's nothing short of brilliant.

This movie is so weird but so beautiful. I like most people have been through some really heartbreaking stuff, my girlfriend passed away over a year ago now and I shut down completely and withdrew from most things in my life and felt as though I couldn't love anyone again. I met a new friend that I started to develop feelings for around the time of this movie, Watching this movie changed me deeply, I wanted to live and love again.

Canada tissues definitely should come in bags like the milk This was such a fun movie and another great reaction video as always Vero!

You won't find too much (recent) stuff from Ke Huy Quan, unfortunately. He retired from acting for awhile because he kept getting offered bad or stereotypical roles, so moved into stunt coordination and fight choreography. Prior to this he was best known as a child actor with Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies being the things he's best known for. Both are definitely worth a watch, though ToD is probably one of the lesser Indiana Jones movies. The good news is that he'll likely be appearing in a lot more stuff in the future given the success of the movie and how well his performance was received...

There are a few layers to this movie - and it’s one of my favorites of the last decade for sure. At least three of these layers / themes I personally find very relatable. There’s the theme about the human condition - our need for connection, how hard it can be to really relate to the people we love, the need for kindness and understanding, and how overwhelming our lives can be. On another level, it’s (semi-deliberately) a quite apt artistic representation of what (severe) ADHD can feel like almost all the time. You’re unmoored in time - overwhelmed by the flood and diversity of impressions, thoughts - and especially tasks… to a degree where you feel alone and separated from everyone around you. You become very aware of the absurdity of it all - how very simple tasks that you are physically perfectly capable of doing and perfectly aware of why you should just do them and how to do the are just …impossible. You see all these possibilities of what you could do and could be - but you'll never live up to that potential. Finally, there’s the philosophical themes. As a philosophy grad, I was quite intrigued by how Nietzschean the plot-progression and the character-development for Joy and Evelyn are: Nietzsche describes many themes - but there is a central epistemic and pragmatic progression that he tells about, where traditional certainties like god, individual creation, providence, objective meaning, objective ethical values, or assuredness and safety in one’s personal and communal identity (including family) no longer can be just believed in with good conscience. Then comes disappointment, desorientation, despair, horror and moral outrage at the actual state of the world. Then a growing awareness of the absurdity and randomness of it all - nihilism. A cynical resignation that it’s all meaningless and useless because nothing is objective and none of the traditional certainties of life hold up. But then - and perhaps most importantly to Nietzschean thought, those that can will take a step further - look at the world and human life in all its arbitrariness and absurdity… and then say “yes” to that - embrace it. Recognize the opportunity to exert creative power and construct meaning and value ourselves. To Nietzsche, nihilism was like a ladder to discard after having ascended it. The later existentialists and nihilists differ from Nietzsche in that they don’t really take this last, positive, affirmative step. Of course, the specifics of all this and especially Nietzsches’s thought are fathoms deeper than I can represent here (and are sometimes quite radical in several uncomfortable ways). But the progression I sketched is definitely a central theme both in Nietzsche’s work and in this this movie… I was quite taken with how the movie incorporated and represented all these themes in one story.

A movie this absurd has no right to be so emotional, but dang it works so well. (nice ad placements by the way)

I'm glad the movie made as big a splash as it did. It would have been easy to be remembered as that wacky movie where people do crazy things and nothing more. Instead it is remembered for its solid core and the wackiness, while awesome in its own right, is just the cherry on top.

Great reaction! The old "Laundry and taxes" gets me every time.

I love Ke Huy Quan in this, he's always been one of my favorites ever since the days of Short Round and Data :D

Sunshine (2007) is a very underrated movie featuring Michelle Yeoh. If you want to see more of Jamie Lee Curtis work, you can't go wrong with True Lies! I just realised today that our own respective computer rooms are the same color 🤣

Nominated for 10 oscars, won 7. As much as I'd love to say Ke Huy Quan carried this film with his phenomenal performance every single person did an amazing job.

39:22 I love how your nose turns red when you cry. It's adorable! 🥰

45:55 That version of _Freaky Friday_ is a remake of the 1976 version that I grew up on, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster.

If you think about how "big" this movie is, all the scenes and the set pieces, It's really great that there was only 2 major locations. The Tax office and the Laundromat.

As a child, the actor playing Waymond was in two fairly well known movies: 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (as Short Round), and 'The Goonies' (as Data).

“Yes, please do. I like universes.” 😂

I finally got to watch this a couple days ago when it became available to rent on KZfaq.

When the topic of "best movie you've ever seen" comes up, I have a very short list of films I think have to be in the conversation. For over 20 years (since Mulholland Dr. in 2001), there were five movies on my list. Now there are six. 🙂

To see your genuine excitement over the verse jumping makes your reaction enjoyable

i love how you weren't too weirded out, or like, of course weirded out because how could you not with this movie:D but in the few reaction to this i've seen people were quite uncomfortable or disgusted with all the weirdness (e.g. trophy fight scene lol) and i like how you're just smiling and enjoying everything because this movie is meant to be like that and it's just a wild ride from start to finish:D

My thought coming out of the theatre the first time I saw this: This will win all the awards.

This is the best movie from, at least, the last 10 years. It's pretty much brilliant!

Great reaction as always , Ke Huy Quan (Weyland), took a break from Acting for a while but he was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom as Short Round and he was Data in The Goonies!

No other film brings tears by talking about doing laundry and taxes.

So glad you had tissues when you started. This movie is a good example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. You can dissect it and see 2 big pieces/segments and several small short films that are quirky and have their own subplots. But the Daniels weaved them masterfully giving us the multiverse movie we never knew we've always wanted.

I will continue to shout from the rooftops how amazing this movie is to anyone who will listen. I don't care if sounds like hyperbole, but this movie literally cured my depression! I've always been a bit of a nihlist who believed that nothing we did matters. I was Jobu without the cool powers. I believed that, eventually, the human race will end, the sun will explode, the universe will collapse in on itself, etc... so why bother? What is the point of life and living, if nothing we do matters. This movie taught me a different way to view that same nihilism: if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. We can profoundly effect the world we live in just by being kind. Whether you believe in "religion" or "god" or "a higher power" or just that we are a giant coincidence created by billions of things going EXACTLY right to create a living being that can perceive the universe which created it. None of that matters. What matters is what we do with the time that we're here. That's all. Nothing else. It doesn't matter if our efforts are appreciated, or even noticed, because we control how we perceive the universe in which we live! This movie is a modern miracle that spoke to my soul, and no matter how many times I watch it, I'm exhausted from crying at the end. This movie is..... EVERYTHING. And to top everything off, they win seven of the eleven Oscars they were nominated for! I don't think I've ever actually cheered aloud at an award announcement, but I sure as heck did for this movie! Louder and louder each time they won and literally stood up and danced for the Best Picture! Thank you for sharing YOUR reaction to this movie with the world.

FUN FACT: The raccoon is voiced by frequent Disney/Pixar composer, Randy Newman. :)

This movie was a true multiverse of madness lol

From the same directors I can also recommend the great and weird movie "Swiss Army Man" with Daniel Radcliffe and Paul Dano.

I assume someone already wrote this, but anyway: If you want to see more movies with the Waymond actor, watch Temple of Doom or The Goonies.

Gotta watch Swiss army man. Is the Daneils first full film. Youll love it😜😂😎🇬🇧lol

The best a24 films I’ve seen are ex machina, the lighthouse, and midsommar. Although there are several I haven’t seen that are very liked such as uncut gems and hereditary.

I really wish I could watch this with my ex-wife, who is from the culture and speaks 3 of the languages. The Chinese family stuff at the start would have her nailed from the beginning. But ex-wife. so you know how the doctor says "I'm sorry, it's a girl" when she's born? My ex didn't get a name from her parents. Got named by the midwife when they didn't. These old-school Chinese parents can be seriously cruel to daughters for being female

Well, you are doing an excellent job of watching movies I haven’t seen!!

Love this movie! glad you enjoyed it 😊

Fun reaction! This movie is everything everywhere all at once ;)

Great reaction like always i realy like this movie its so good and for me one of the best of A24 Studios, great cast and story i was so happy for Ke Huy Quan for the oscar and his comeback and also for the legendary Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis. I hope you will react to more A24 movies, keep up the amazing work.

This movie was everything that Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness wasn't.

It was great fun watching you react to this movie! I avoided this for like a year...don't like overhyped movies This BLEW ME AWAY!! I love watching people watch it for the first time! I tell people to be prepared for a wild wide...but then I remember there is now way to be prepared for this movie. Watching reactions, I get to catch things I never did before. At the end when she asks Waymend to take off his belt, I realized she asks him to do that so she can hug him closer. I also finally noticed Diedre calls her Evelyn, not Mrs. Wang, at the end. Subtle things, but makes it so much more meaningful.

'doing laundry and taxes with you' is, imo, the emotional pinnacle of the film. Every one breaks here.

Sorry for getting carried away, but I really like this movie and the actors. A24 movies: the creepy Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019) come to mind. Along with the strange Swiss Army Man (2016) and The Lobster (2016). There are plenty more Wiki or IMDB would give a better list. Ke Huy Quan (Waymond) was a child actor in the 80's (playing Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) and Data in The Goonies (1985)). He found parts hard to get as an adult , so he moved behind the camera for such things as helping choreograph fight sequences in X-Men (2000). This movie was a return to Holywood acting for him. And boy did he make me wish he had been in more. For Jamie Lee Curtis, I can only add True Lies (1994), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and Knives Out (2019) as a start. For Michelle Yeoh I will only mention Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Stephanie Hsu (Joi) I need to see more from her. Finally James Hong (Gong Gong), a great actor from many films. The one that sticks out to me is Big Trouble in Little China (1986).

Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness - "There." Everything Everywhere all at Once - "Hold my beer ... "

If you want to check out an older movie with Jamie Lee Curtis, check out Trading Places. It's really a vehicle for Eddie Murphy and Dan Akroyd, but Jamie was great in it too.

22:32 The "Ave Maria" woman is not weird at all. Amateur musical theatre is my hobby, so suddenly breaking out into song seems quite normal to me.

Another weird movie directed by The Daniels is 'Swiss Army Man'. Maybe a bit more baffling the Everything, Everywhere,. All At Once. Another good, weird one is 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' directed by Michel Gondry.

A simple story of family 😄🙃

26:40 Check out _Team America: World Police_ (2004).

For a great movie featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, I would strongly recommend A Fish Called Wanda, where she shines with costars John Cleese, Kevin Kline and Michael Palin. Incredible movie. On a different note, if I recall, this is the first movie in history to win three acting awards. (Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Kwan and Jamie Lee Curtis. (And you've seen Ke Huy Kwan before if you've watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom or The Goonies!)

We're all strong until that tax line comes

Thanks, Verowak! 👁 #VerowakReacts #DanielKwan #DanielScheinert #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce

You really do have anmazing smile ::)

It was fun watching this in the cinema when it first came out. An entire (albeit sparse) audience crying at a scene with just two rocks on the screen. Brilliant screenwriting and direction, the absurdism breaks the audience's reality and lets them immerse themselves in the movie. Aided of course by incredible actors led by the incomparable Michelle Yeoh (I've been a fan sine Yes Madam). When nothing matters then everything you do matters. The Daniels other movie, Swiss Army Man, is also well worth watching. Daniel Radcliffe gets to play a flatulant dead body in it. Enough said.

Best movie.

Best. 'Everything Bagel' Reaction. Ever. #JustOneLook

swiss army man bya24 is great

7:33 Why does everyone always say that? They are Auditor of the Month awards. Obviously.

How about Short Round from _Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom_? Jamie Lee Curtis, I go to _Trading Places_ myself.

7:33 You know what they are? I'm very disappointed! 🤣

Not just Mandarin, Cantonese and Malaysian

This movie took a long time to win me over. The fight against the guards at the start didn't feel like some kind of triumphant scene but guards getting beat up for trying to escort some violent visitors out the building. Evelyn is obviously not a likeable protagonist (part of the point of the movie) and I felt like the movie took too long to get to its conclusion, but the conclusion was 10/10. The last 20 minutes made up for the rest of the film in my opinion.

19:48 Everything bagels are a US thing. We Aussies just see a black doughnut (or donut to you North Americans).

A24 films I'd recommend are... A Most Violent Year The Spectacular Now The Lighthouse Good Time Uncut Gems Moonlight Amy (documentary on Amy Winehouse) Swiss Army Man Lady Bird

It’s hard not to say “Everything everywhere all at once” when giving a review or describing what happens in the movie 😀

Ke Huy Quan... 20 years way from Hollywood... than THIS :)

I ever thought I would see the day a movie featuring a kung fu fight between combattants trying to shove buttplugs up themselves to gain super powers would win an oscar. Or that I would feel said movie DSERVED to win it! But here we are eh? :P Abolutely wonderful movie... utterly insane obviously but just magnificent!

I love Jamie Lee Curtis but Stephanie Hsu was robbed. She deserves that Emmy...