Much will be made of the digital effects of the film, which ably conjure colors out of space, alien geometries, impossible architecture - the whole uncanny, otherworldly visual schmear you expect from a Doctor Strange film. Marvel fans are gonna love all those fan-servicing, momentum-sapping cameos, but Raimi fans are going to find themselves liking the film more and more the longer it goes, because the director seems most firmly in control later on, once things get darker and darker towards the conclusion. There's an echo of that happening in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Marvel fans loved the villains and hated Dancin' Peter, while we Raimi fans ate up Dancin' Peter with a big ol' spoon and rolled our eyes at the need to shoehorn in so many bad guys.ĭoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is great at depicting the impossible wonders of other universes, while the most mundane details of our own universe hover stubbornly beyond its reach. In that film, Raimi listened to his bosses as he does here, and dutifully loaded up the overcomplicated plot with a surfeit of studio-required villains - but he did so while indulging his goofier side by turning Peter Parker into a pompous tool, grooving down a Manhattan sidewalk. Raimi's last Marvel movie - Spider-Man 3 - is controversial among Marvel fans, and slightly less so among Raimi fans. The callbacks that work best aren't Marvel callbacks, they're Raimi callbacks: zombies, ghouls, a brief tracking shot from the baddie's perspective.
As you watch it, you can't help but imagine that you're only viewing it through a gauzy scrim of hastily issued, last-minute studio notes and frantically dashed-off memos.īut Raimi spent his early career making shambling, goofy, profoundly messy movies, and whenever Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness leans into his horror roots (which it does often the film pushes hard against its PG-13 rating), the film manages to attain a clear, if idiosyncratic, point-of-view. So, yes, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a mess.
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