Particularly memorable is an entire magical duel accomplished through animated musical notes, underscored (ho ho) by the work of composer Danny Elfman. The camera swoops across scenes, delivers POV shots from the oddest of entities, and transitions from sequence to sequence via occasionally dreamlike leaps. There are at least two moments where characters look straight out of the screen and make eye contact with the audience. Goofy body-horror deaths - a tasting menu’s worth - play to delighted gasps. In this movie, tentacles roil, specters scream, skeletons taunt, and eldritch hands seek, grasp, and pull. But once a single sequence nodding at that film’s fractal magic visuals is out of the way, Multiverse of Madness completes a full transformation into Sam Raimi’s House of Magical Spooks and Monsters. Director Scott Derrickson leaned on shifting kaleidoscope worlds and Inception-esque landscapes for the original Doctor Strange. The real hero in Multiverse of Madness isn’t a person it’s the visuals - particularly the way Raimi and his team depict mind-rending magical abilities, ones that obey no wands or Harry Potter-like pig-Latin incantations. It’s clear that he’s unlikable in all universes, to greater or lesser degrees. He remains egotistical, pompous, and condescending. Just like in his first film and in the comics, the star of a Doctor Strange story isn’t Stephen himself.
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Gomez is charming as America - her central role and overall storyline seem destined to set up a solo Disney Plus series of her own, and this movie makes that prospect particularly appealing.
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Olsen definitely gives the film’s most arresting performance, and after the Disney Plus TV series WandaVision, that shouldn’t surprise anyone. Naturally, her escape runs her right into the path of Stephen Strange, who seeks help from old allies like Benedict Wong’s Wong, and new ones like Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch. The most talkative and sympathetic of those MacGuffins is America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a new-to-the-MCU character facing a powerful magical enemy.
And his strong supporting cast only underscores the weakness of his own personal evolution.ĭoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness barrels adroitly through its opening, assembling its cast and launching them all on quests for various personally important MacGuffins. But no matter how many universes Multiverse of Madness leaps through, it can’t escape the fact that its hero is Stephen Strange. Setting a movie in the full breadth of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse sets up the opportunity to bring in a lot of characters - and a lot of references designed to thrill comics fans and MCU obsessives alike. That means packing the story full of as many other characters as possible, as early as possible in the story. For his return to top billing in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Sam Raimi (director of the Spider-Man trilogy and the Evil Dead trilogy) and screenwriter Michael Waldron ( Rick and Morty, Loki) have found a way to lean into this. Since his obligatory origin film in 2016, Strange (as played by Benedict Cumberbatch) has found more memorable cinematic life in supporting roles as a magical expert with wise words for the beleaguered protagonists of Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. His immense power and his remove from the ordinary world of heroing make him something of an abstraction in the Marvel universe - mostly useful when other heroes run afoul of his marvelous, perilous world of magic, and drop in on him for help and explanations.Īnd the good doctor’s usefulness as a secondary character has translated to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, too. Stephen Strange is a much more consistent visitor in other heroes’ stories than a star in his own. In the hallowed halls of Marvel Comics, Dr.
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