There have been many occasions in the past where I've looked at movies the Oscars think are best picture (Birdman, Moonlight) and wondered what they were seeing that I wasn't. But not even close to the bewilderment I felt over this.

Apparently, there is some intergalactic conflict, and some hapless owner of a laundromat and her family are drawn into it. That sets the stage for an unrelenting, almost nauseating, set of colourful, hyperkinetic scenes that also manage to be rather boring.

I guess that buried deep in there is a message about accepting life and finding pleasure in the small things, and another message about accepting gay persons, which is fine, but it's been done better in so many movies. I guess the people who made this movie thought wrapping it inside some sci-fi adventure/acid trip would make more of an impact? I don't know.

In any case, this movie did not even come close to deserving the accolades it received. And it pains me to say this, but Jamie Lee Curtis getting an Oscar for this is absurd. Her part is tiny and took less talent than her role in the original Hallowe'en.

This movie proves my theory that you should wait several months for a movie to come out, read the most recent reviews, and you'll find the truth about a movie, not the early reviews whos objectivity is questionable.

This movie was a '2' but I am giving it a '3' for some of the visuals and a couple of interesting martial arts sequences.