Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is finally here, and fan expectations are through the roof. Some fans were expecting this movie to feature cameos from every Marvel character ever. Others were hoping for a more toned-down Sam Raimi feature, or some hint about what the next Big Marvel Crossover will be. In this Spoiler Review we talk about what worked, what didn't work, and the most magical moment form any movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Matt Singer: ( / mattsinger )
Adam Lance Garcia ( / adamlancegarcia )
Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Sean Martin and Randolf Nombrado
Number one, I was in awe of how the movie was able to still be about Stephen Strange and exhibit his character growth. In the first movie, Stephen had to overcome his ego and learn [it’s not about you]. But in this movie we see why he has that massive ego. He was unable to save his sister from drowning. So for the rest of his life, he believes that it should always be on him to hel[ people. As Christine puts it, you always had to be the one holding the knife. The death of tephen’s sister was a core memory for him, that defines him across the multiverse.
So introducing variant stranges could have just been a fun gag. Like in spider-verse, where seeing all these different genres of spider-man was half the fun [clip].
But in Multiverse of Madness, each version of Strange serves to move his character forward. In the first scene, we see Defender Strange making the decision to kill America and steal her powers. Later we find out that illuminati strange used the darkhold to kill thanos, which threatened reality. And finally sinister strange has turned full on evil. [clip].
All of these Stephens show him in various stages of falling to the dark side. Add in what we saw in What If, and we know that there’s a real danger of Strange letting the darkhold take control of him.
And we know that an MCU hero can break bad, because that’s what Wanda does in this episode. Now I do think that the movie could have done a better job spelling out how she turned so evil. Because wandaVision ends with her having an emotional catharsis and accepting her grief. But then we had that tease that she was studying the darkhold, and that it was tempting her like the one ring [clip].
That ending made it seem like Wanda’s boys were trapped in the multiverse somewhere, not that she was going to run off and kidnap them from another mom. But Wanda sees this as acceptable because the dark hold has taken her. That’s not really that apparent in the movie though.
But I’ll talk about that later with Matt and Adam. Another thing I loved about this movie is how just damn Sam raimi it is. A lot of people who watch this channel may only know Raimi’s work from blockbusters like the Sopider-Man trilogy and Oz the Great and Powerful [uh, what?]
But Raimi’s roots are in low budget horror movies. The Evil Dead trilogy is a masterpiece of horror comedy. And when Wanda is gleefully slaying the illuminati, you can practically hear Raimi laughing from behind the camera.
The movie did another important thing, in regards to the whole MCU. It was able to set up the next movies, but in a way that wasn;t immediately pressing. Here’s what I mean by that. The film sets up Clea, and multiversal crises, and Secret wars-which we talked about in our ending explained video.
But, these aren’t questions that need answered right away. Whereas, say, Captain America Civil war and Winter Soldier IMMEDIATELY changed the landscape of these movies. They changed elements that needed to be addressed in the next MCU movie. But you could skip this movie and go straight into Love and thunder or wakanda forever, and it wouldn’t matter.
So the Multiverse of madness managed to set up a few dominoes without stealing the spotlight from other movies. That’s a very delicate balancing act to pull off.
Here’s my nitpick on the movie. The original ending, where strange screams, and he has a third eye and they cut to credits, was awesome. Should have ended there. I like Clea, I like that tease for more stuff, but it cheapens the end of this movie, which was a brilliant cliffhanger.
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