So what about those Doctor Strange cameos?
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The movie has to pull some MacGuffin crap to explain how she got this mean, but I didn’t really mind when mean is such a good look on her. Granted, that doesn’t make for the tightest script the character drama is shallow at best, particularly with Wanda. The movie rides high on that kind of geeky enthusiasm there’s a sense of the producers gleefully mashing together Marvel action figures and writing down their adventures, and I was here for it. There is a music-themed fight sequence in here that is either the stupidest brilliant fight scene I’ve ever seen or the most brilliant stupid fight seen I’ve ever seen. It’s excellent, and it’s not just there as background. The music by Danny Elfman warrants special mention. You know it’s a good movie when you want to make excuses for the lame bits.
I flipped so hard on it I wonder if Raimi and company weren’t mugging their way through the first part to lull me into a false sense of security before they plunged in the knife. I started liking this movie when Wanda got hardcore and I never stopped. We’re talking canted angles, dizzying dolly shots, hungry demons from the depths of hell and a villain who says she’s going to kill you and means it. Hiring Evil Dead director Sam Raimi to steer this ship was the right call, because he comes to play. Director Sam Raimi brings his Evil Dead best If you take your kid to this movie they might have nightmares, and I mean that as a compliment. But this pushes things further than ever before. In fact, things get so intense I frankly wonder if Disney had to slip some money under the table to get this movie a PG-13 rating.ĭon’t get me wrong: Doctor Strange 2 isn’t a splatter-fest this is still the MCU we’re talking about. Wanda - or rather the Scarlet Witch - does things we have not seen in the MCU before.
And when I say “villain,” I don’t mean “antihero.” I don’t mean “bad guy with a redemption arc,” I mean a V-is-for-vicious villain. Without giving too much away, Wanda is the villain of this movie. The trailers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hint that Wanda is an antagonist. I wasn’t sure how they were going to use her in this movie, but I wasn’t expecting this. The last time we saw Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), she was flying away from the town of Westview in WandaVision, having accidentally (and then not so accidentally) kept it hostage for weeks with her reality-altering powers. If I’m being honest, she doesn’t really evolve beyond that. Strange is snappy, Wong (Benedict Wong) is the straight man and America is a standard-issue spunky teen sent straight over from Disney’s warehouse of stock characters. Throughout this whole section, the characters seem only to speak in dialogue that forwards the plot, with barely any thought spared for personality or depth. There’s an action scene on the streets of New York City - pause for shocked gasps - and we meet the ingenue of the hour, America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a dimension-hopping teen who needs Doctor Strange’s help. We catch up with Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), who’s feeling out of sorts after being snapped away from reality for five years in Avengers: Infinity War. We open with a special effects-heavy action scene that’s so clunky and cliche-ridden I half-expected it to be some kind of self-parody it kind of reminded me of that Tomb Buster video in the recent episode of Moon Knight, the cheesy old movie that supposedly inspired Oscar Isaac’s madness? It was nice to look at, and it hit a couple of dramatic beats, but it didn’t feel like anything we hadn’t seen in the MCU a million times before. Doctor Strange and the Muiltiverse of Madness grows on you