Director(s): Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Cast: Stars Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate. 139 min. Fantasy/Comedy.
- What a wonderful (and much needed) movie for our times. You think the world is going crazy? Sometimes find it difficult to breath? This film offers a possible reason. Consider it a tie-in with the recent Doctor Strange 2 movie: there's a multiverse going on, and we are constantly tapping into parallel universes. In the 70s, escapism from the world's madness was defined by space movies like Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind; in the 80s, it was playing around with time, like in Back to the Future; in the 90s, it was claiming that we're living in a virtual world, like The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ; now ... it's imagining a multiverse, and "what if" I hadn't made that decision, 30 years ago? Would my life be any better? Escapism.
- True to form, there are lovely references to 80s icons. One is obvious: Jamie Lee Curtis, once the most memorable slasher-movie heroine of all time, here as a crazy IRS auditor. The other one is more subtle, but exciting when you notice "him". Let's just say he was a major player in two 80s Spielberg-driven kids' movies ...
- Strong respect paid to some other iconic movie moods and moments: funny ones like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ratatouille, and more dramatic ones like In the Mood for Love and of course, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
- Kudos to the script, the editing, and costume design: the thousands of cuts, and the creativity implemented in displaying numerous parallel universes, have made this one of the greatest movies of the year (already seen it twice).
- And believe it or not, the ending does offer a glimmer of hope, in all this madness and sadness.
MoGo's rating: 9/10
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