Michelle Yeoh busts through the mul­ti­verse in Every­thing Every­where All at Once

If you thought that the direc­to­r­i­al duo known as Daniels – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schein­ert, indi­vid­u­al­ly – would fol­low-up their life-affirm­ing fart­ing corpse action-com­e­dy-romance Swiss Army Man with some­thing more down-the-mid­dle, you’ve got anoth­er thing com­ing. Or rather, a poten­tial­ly infi­nite num­ber of things con­tained with­in the splin­ter­ing dimen­sions that com­prise the real­i­ties beyond what we can know and perceive.

Today brings the first trail­er for Every­thing Every­where All at Once, the sopho­more fea­ture from Daniels, and it sure seems to be every bit as bizarre and rest­less­ly cre­ative as the film on which they made their joint name. And this one has Michelle Yeoh, an asset whose pres­ence instant­ly puts any giv­en work of art up one full let­ter grade.

She por­trays Mrs. Wang, a woman yanked from a mun­dane meet­ing con­cern­ing her dire finances and into an inter-uni­ver­sal con­flict the likes of which she can scarce­ly imag­ine. As the snip­pets of dia­logue explain, she pos­sess­es the unique abil­i­ty to tap into her many alter­nate selves pop­u­lat­ing the mul­ti­verse, mean­ing she can access their mem­o­ries and more impor­tant­ly, their abil­i­ties – expert hibachi prepa­ra­tion, sign-spin­ning, old-school wux­ia mar­tial arts prowess, et cetera.

As she sets out to van­quish the ghouls maraud­ing through our plane of exis­tence (one of whom takes over the body of Jamie Lee Cur­tis), a mis­sion that involves a man’s head explod­ing into con­fet­ti as well as a large quan­ti­ty of stick-on goo­gly eyes, she learns the impor­tance of the bonds she shares with her fam­i­ly. She’ll also remind us why Michelle Yeoh used to be the biggest name in kung fu cin­e­ma, show­ing us that she’s still capa­ble of fend­ing off sev­er­al adver­saries at once as she approach­es six­ty years of age.

The film will get a world pre­mière in March as the open­ing night selec­tion at South by South­west, with a the­atri­cal release to fol­low soon after­ward. Though a cou­ple weeks of this year still remain, we can offi­cial­ly begin look­ing for­ward to the movies of 2022.

Every­thing Every­where All at Once will come to cin­e­mas in the US on 25 March. A date for the UK has yet to be set.