Review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) by Kakaloto — 22 Jun 2022

Bringing Sam Raimi back after a million years was a mistake. I'm usually an MCU fanboy but this movie sucks hard. Horrible writing, (they re-wrote it when Raimi came on apparently,) lame humour and brimming with predictable tropes. Should have been a fun view into the multiverse, but felt like watching an hour of the constant blundering in a bad horror movie. Instead of Doctor Strange doing clever things we get tediously predictable CGI fireball battles and boring dialogue. Really can't stress enough how bad the dialogue is, there's a lot of decision making that's just straight up brain-dead and then minutes of pointless squabbling that follows.

Also who made the decision to bring in America Chavez AKA the Marvel Universe's least liked character, (maybe Sam Raimi?) And the actor they used for her was pretty bad- there's a certain fainting scene that was highschool play caliber. It's one of the least forgettable scenes in the movie because it actually made me groan, where the rest of it failed to elicit a reaction.

Compared to "Spiderman: No Way Home" this movie is a joke.