Everything Everywhere All At Once: Philosophical Martial Arts Sci-Fi Film

This movie has a terrific premise and has much to recommend it, but its nearly-constant freneticism, excessive length, and too many martial arts battles spoiled it for me.  It's frequently funny, raises deep philosophical concerns, and has a nice message, but I only enjoyed about half of it. Evelyn (Michele Yeoh) is feeling overwhelmed.  Her family laundromat business is barely making it, she is being audited by the IRS, her marriage to Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) is on-the-ropes, and her relationship with her daughter, Joy (Stephanie Hsu), couldn't be much worse.  If that wasn't enough, Evelyn's father is visiting and she has a significant unresolved conflict with him, too. The whole family goes to the IRS office in Simi Valley for the audit, where they sit under the intense scrutiny of Diedre (Jamie Lee Curtis), who takes her job very seriously and seems to want to take them down!  Suddenly, at the IRS office, an alternative version of Waymond, from the "alpha-verse," tells Evelyn that a villain, Jobu Tupaki, is trying to destroy the multi-verse.  Apparently, every decision we make creates a new universe, so there are trillions of alternative realties and life paths for all of us.  Mysteriously, somehow only Evelyn can save the day.  Evelyn and Waymond then travel to various universes by "jumping" to try to locate and defeat Jobu Tupaki. The movie poses the question that, since we are objectively meaningless specks of protoplasm in a vast multi-verse which appears to be completely indifferent to us and that whatever we accomplish is basically pointless, then how do we live with this situation without driving ourselves into nihilistic despair?  Most of us have wondered what our lives would have been like if we had made different choices in our critical decisions, and the film metaphorically tackles this issue head-on.  The movie proposes kindness, love, acceptance, empathy, and connection to each other as an antidote to existential despair.  I'm sure that helps (but probably is not nearly enough if one has this perspective).  The cast is excellent, especially Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis, who is very funny. Bottom line: I wouldn't "jump" to see it, but it's worth renting (which will enable you to fast-forward through the martial arts scenes if you are bored with them).