There's plenty of CGI-dependent action to enjoy, but for a while the film doesn't seem like essential viewing for anyone except devoted Marvel fans. The only way to foil this demon is to locate the most super-dooper spellbook in existence, and so Strange recruits the one magic-wielder who might be able to help him, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) from the Avengers. Its demonic master wants to steal America's power so that it can rule not just one reality but every reality there is. In fact, she has the power to hop between multiple universes, which is why the monster was chasing her. One zany, tentacle-lopping fight scene later, America tells Strange and his fellow sorcerer, Wong (Benedict Wong), that she comes from another universe. But suddenly he has other urgent business to attend to: an enormous one-eyed octopus monster is chasing a girl called America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) down the streets of Manhattan. It begins with Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), New York's premier neurosurgeon-turned-Master-of-the-Mystic-Arts, attending the wedding of his old flame, Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams), and realising that if he hadn't been so pompous, she might have married him instead. The sequel is a different matter – although initially it feels familiar enough.
Delightfully, the film itself fulfils that promise.Īs spectacular as the psychedelic effects were in the first Doctor Strange, which came out more than five years ago, the screenplay stuck closely to what was, at the time, the studio's typical formula, in that it told the origin story of an arrogant white man acquiring his abilities and then defeating a forgettable baddy. It may be a shame that the second Doctor Strange film wasn't called Doctor Stranger, but Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a wonderfully way-out title in its own right: rich with the promise of pulp-fiction excitement and midnight-movie wackiness.
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