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Shazaaaam
This felt more like a grab bag of good Sam Raimi bits than a coherent movie. It's very busy and often entertaining, but for me, lacked the suspense of caring much about the characters or outcome. "Important" new character America Chavez was very bland and passive, and I was disappointed thatcharliearcore
Doctor Strange 2, akabaraka92
I enjoyed the last 20-30 minutes, when Raimi's style got the spotlight and found Olsen to be genuinely good (with what she had). Aside from that...Is Marvel/Disney really expecting everybody to watch 7+ hours of a TV show to fully understand what's going on here? Well, apparently not, since many are already complaining about the undoing of Wanda's arc from Wandavision. So, people who didn't see it (like me) are feeling lost and the ones that did, hate what became of her. What the hell are they doing? Also, the fact that
A lot of references and cameos... because it's a Marvel film and you know the drill. The whole multiverse thing has open the door for infinite possibilities but ironically every single one of them will feel meaningless. Why should I care if a character dies or if they tell me a whole universe has been destroyed?
Sam Raimi is by far the most legit director that has worked in these movies and even he got watered down. He felt less than director and more like a topping. Look just for the ending and that's it. The rest is as disposable as ever. I saw No Way Home because of the hype... on TV and saw this because of Raimi. I'm officially done. I really wish I could see a universe in which the MCU never left Paramount.
Paravail
If you haven't seen Wandavision you'll be pretty lost.Neens
This was a total snoozefest in all universes, but that's ok, I needed the nap. Ridiculous makeup, special effects that look cheap although I am sure they weren't, and a bunch of characters you just don't care about, because they're all alive in untold other universes anyway. Very disappointing.chunkylefunga
Opening scene just didn't make sense if sling rings exist.Then you have a bizarre and pretty pointless villian. Like ago we get you wanted to milk a tv series first, but that storyline was done, can we please just have a proper storyline and not a weird mess with a laughable villain with laughable reasoning.
Sam clearly had no idea what to do with these characters and basically tried to write a pg horror movie without suceeding.
neko's kat
I read somewhere that if you watched Everything Everywhere All At Once then Multiverse of Madness will be underwhelming. And it's true :(Duke of Omnium
If this is the direction that the MCU will be going in, it will die a quick but painful death.Filmbuff77
Painfully boring.PrinceJax
This movie really missed the meaning of the one line that it ultimately should have been aboutHermit09
I think this is what happens when a director is allowed to do whatever they want and there’s no one there to tell them “no”. I liked Sam Raimi’s other films like the Evil Dead trilogy and, of course, the Spider-Man movies, but I think this is him at his worst.The movie is just unnecessarily gross, gory, and over-the-top in a way that feels both dated and alien to the MCU. I know that the MCU films have experimented with other genres in the past (like how the First Avenger is a war movie, Ant-Man is a heist movie, and Guardians of the Galaxy flicks are high sci-fi), but this particular experiment with the horror genre did not work out, in my opinion. The movie isn’t even really all that scary, it’s more like a cheesy haunted house ride at an amusement park, but it doesn’t really work and seems like a huge departure from what the first Doctor Strange movie was like.
And what was the deal with Wanda’s plan, anyway? About a halfway through the film she managed to find a way to possess her own body from another universe, allowing her to be with the children she always wanted, and yet… she still felt the need to go after America at that point? Why? Didn’t she already get what she wanted?!
And speaking of America Chavez, her character was pretty much wasted here. In the comics and the recent Marvel Rising animated series, she is a certified badass superheroine, but here she is mostly just a plot device and a daughter figure for Strange to look after.
Also, even though the movie is called “Multiverse of Madness”, we really only get to see two other universes! Yup, that’s it. To be fair, there is a short sequence where Strange and America travel through a bunch of universes, but it only offers a split-second glance at each of them (and yet they all look more interesting than the one they end up spending most of the runtime in).
The cameos of characters like Reed Richards and Professor Xavier would’ve been great, if not for them getting killed off in gruesome ways about 15 minutes after being introduced. That seems worse to me than not showing them at all.
Anyway, apologies for the lengthy rant, it’s just that I felt perplexed by this movie. The last MCU film I watched was No Way Home, and it is by far my favorite Marvel movie. This one, on the other hand, is easily the worst of the bunch, in my view.
DrowwGuty
It's... StrangeSiskoid
We were warned that it was gonna go the way of horror, but I was still sandbagged by how far Sam Raimi took it in Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness. Shows how much we've become used to the MCU house style that I'm giving Doctor Strange 2 Multiversal Boogaloo points just for breaking the mold, though Raimi's style is really at odds with the formula. When Raimi is doing crazy macabre stuff, riffs on classic horror movies, or straight up giving us Deadites, it's great. When he throws in superhero elements, the shocking violence is jarring. But that's a Raimiesque thing too, so I'm not too sore about it. It's definitely a good time to ask whether it's a good idea for the MCU to set up movies with TV shows, because I do think the movie takes a real shortcut by putting all of the villain's motivations in a show, which harms the film AS A FILM, if not AS A CHAPTER in a huge story. Truth be told, WandaVision and What If? were easier to bring up in my mind than the first Doctor Strange movie (I guess that watch stuff was important...?). So is this a negative review? Not at all. Despite the preceding caveats, I thought this was a lot of fun. Raimi fans will no doubt get their due more than strict MCU audiences, but there are a lot of great gags (the Multiversal ones WOULD seem fresher if Everything Everywhere All at Once hadn't cut Doctor Strange off at the pass), and unlike the first film, the magic looks like magic, not like an Inception fan fiddling with fractals. We had a very responsive theater, with teenage girls very invested in the Strange-Christine relationship, and expressive fanboys allowing themselves to be surprised as references and cameos. A lot of fun surprises throughout as things get more and more insane. And friends, an we all agree that the MCU has now done the Phoenix Saga and we don't need to retell it with the X-Men once they join the family? Thanks.CodeV
+ Director Sam Raimi, some fresh blood added to the Marvel Universe+ You can see multiple horror movie elements and references
+ The complicated Multiverse story is surprisingly easy to follow and understand
- Do we really need all this Multiverse stuff?
- Easy to kill a bunch of loved characters if those are not "real" but from other Multiverse
boulderman
Good, watchable, generally great effects, kept me interested but by the end I waned 6/10...as saw I I thought I recognised a certain actor I had a good guess who the director was:)
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