Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8EDRC2dYSI
Wanda vs. the Illuminati
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is enjoyable, but also deeply messy. Many of the problems lie in the middle act, when Stephen Strange and America Chavez end up in a universe packed with cameos that would otherwise be in a poorly photoshopped poster for an upcoming Avengers movie. And just when it feels like the movie is about to overindulge in fan service that would overwhelm all other discussions of the film, director Sam Raimi and writer Michael Waldron put a literal mind-blowing closer on the digression that is simultaneously more violent than any other Marvel movie to date and also incredibly hilarious. It’s the kind of meanness that didn’t fully work in Deadpool 2, but absolutely clicked here.
Zombie Strange
With all credit to the original Spider-Man trilogy, there’s only one Marvel movie Raimi was born to direct and that’s Multiverse of Madness—specifically for the scene where Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) dreamwalks into his counterpart’s corpse to battle the Scarlet Witch. From Zombie Strange’s hand bursting through his grave to conquering the souls of the damned to form a badass cape, the whole scene is quintessentially Raimi, and it gives the movie the Evil Dead edge that makes it so memorable.
