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Old 05-05-2022, 11:43 PM   #13812
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Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness: 3 and 1/4 stars out of 4

It's dumb. It's fan-servicey. It deals with a subject in which I'm not interested. And I'm sure Sam Raimi directed every action sequence on a random narcotic he pulled out of a bingo tumbler for each day of filming.

That said, the heart of this film, like most Marvel films, is with the characters. Their wants. Their goals. Their feelings. Yes, they're dealing with something completely ridiculous and it's not appealing to me but I'm taking this ride with characters I get and that I like. What they do makes sense and it's relatable. It's just being done against a backdrop of craziness and imaginative effects.

Like Spider-Man: No Way Home, don't take any of my Negative Nancy-ness to heart. It's a roller coaster that virtually Marvel fanboy and fangirl is going to be giddy about, especially in the second act. Saying anything more will almost dip into spoiler territory so I'll just offer my positive recommendation. Mid-credit and post-credit scenes do exist but the latter is kind of a dumb let down that only calls back to something earlier in the film.
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