Saturday night, I made a bowl of popcorn, and signed up for a seven-day trial period of Showtime (notating on my calendar when I should cancel if I didn't wish to pay $10.99). The plan was to watch "Everything Everywhere...", an Oscar nominated movie. It was going to be great!

The opening was promising, fast moving, colorful with multiple things going on, interesting characters, eating, talking, customers in the laundromat etc. I laughed and felt optimistic about the film. And then a family trip to the IRS, but I'll say no more so as not to ruin "the plot".

Jamie Curtis was funny, as some sort of odd cartoon-like caricature of an ugly, older woman, government official. But then the movie slips seriously into that alternate people, universes, broom closet, who know what reality......and then some sort of kung fu martial arts thing with people flying around in the air, and by that time I was losing interest. It's starts to get confusing..How does one get into that alternate universe? By chewing chapstick or pushing the green light on your headphone...and then looking at your cellphone for the GPS coordinates?. (Did the app come from the Apple store?).

You know how four year old children in nursery school like to dress up and run around acting out some plot, that no adult can understand, but makes perfect sense to them? One might have a cape on, the other with a fairy tiara and tutu, the other has found a toy sword and plastic knight's armor vest. They run around, calling after each other, hiding and pretending to fight some imaginary enemy. It's amusing for adults to watch for a few minutes, but usually the game goes on for about ten minutes or less, not one and a half hours.

That is how I feel about the characters and plot of the movie. It seems to turn into some sort of cartoon/action/matrix-like film and as another reviewer said, I think viewers in general don't want to admit it's hard to understand. At some point I fell asleep, unintentionally. That pretty much sums up the film for me. I might give it one more try before my "free trial" expires.