Horrific dreams filled with enchanted beasts are the sort of thing that experienced practitioners of the mystic arts like Strange and Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme Wong (Benedict Wong) are accustomed to. Having faced down Dormammu, helped defeat Thanos, and pulled reality back together after breaking it with Spider-Man, present day Stephen Strange doesn’t really think much about the vivid nightmares he keeps having in which he’s not exactly himself. Doctor Strange gazing at a statue of himself. Strange gets precious little alone time in Multiverse of Madness, but the film opens on a dazzling and disorienting set piece that recaptures some of the Steve Ditko-esque magic that made Scott Derrickson’s 2016 Doctor Strange sparkle.
Multiverse of Madness often feels like it wants to be a fresh starting point for a new phase of Marvel storytelling what it actually is, though, is a testament to how easy it is for these sorts of sprawling franchise projects to collapse under their own weight when they get too big.īecause Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange played such a crucial role in the Infinity Saga and then almost immediately became the MCU’s new de facto fatherly mentor figure in Spider-Man: No Way Home, it’s easy to forget how little time the character’s really spent in the spotlight by himself. To a certain extent, this is also true of director Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a crossover event-style film that goes all-in on the concept of alternate universes. Most of Marvel Studios’ movies are meant to be at least somewhat accessible regardless of how much familiarity one has with the larger MCU or the comics a film is loosely based on.
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