Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Doctor Strange 2 (2022) (Film Review)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Doctor Strange 2 (2022) No, no, no! I really liked the first one… and still… I thought it was far from perfect! Here, quite a lot of disappointment.

I didn’t like the story. I don’t like when the villain is someone who rebels. Especially if it’s for such a futile reason. To dream that you have children and be convinced that you do! And then go and take over the role of the real mother in a parallel dimension. Yeah! 

It sounds pretty good like that… but everything I saw in this movie, I had seen better elsewhere. Even the part with the mutant equivalents is pathetic! The female version of Captain America, the Mr. Elastic from the Fantastic Four… that was just a wink. But it seems that they didn’t get the real actors to play a rather useless caricature. In the end, they get decimated rather quickly, while we could have had one of the most spectacular action scenes. And bringing back Professor Xavier to make him disappear again?

That’s giving false hope… and it’s mocking the real fans. It’s the same as bringing Han Solo back in Star Wars and having him killed. We had waited more than 20 years to see him again… and all for that???

So, we could have expected to see Wolverine again too! Since we are shown that there is finally a crossbreeding with the X-Men… but it is turned into a comedy. 

In the end, everything is badly exploited: these parallel worlds which are a very interesting theme and even very important… are full of incoherences. We have the impression that nobody is surprised to meet his other version, his double. They talk to each other like nothing happened… even when Strange reappears, even though he died in the other dimension… it’s like everyone was expecting it! Anyway!!!

No, really not convinced by this movie which wastes once again a huge potential. And here is that in the last seconds of the movie, Charlize Theron also comes to join Marvel! As if every important actor had to play in a Superhero movie !!!

No, really! For me, even Sam Raimi acts and reacts as if he was afraid to be forgotten. Still with his Bruce Campbell cameo… but it’s getting less and less funny, I find, even if the nostalgia takes well. But not completely either. Because, I have to admit, it’s tragic to think that for today’s youth, Sam’s Spider-Man and his trilogy don’t exist and that it’s always been Tom Holland. 

My Rating