Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is the second MCU movie featuring Doctor Strange as the main protagonist. It takes place shortly after Spider-man: No Way Home and WandaVision. If you like Doctor Strange and wants to know what you have to watch of the MCU before watching this movie but you do not have the time to watch everything. Then follow this list below (and I recommend this order).
- The Avengers (optional)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (Essential)
- Captain America (Optional)
- Doctor Strange (Essential)
- Thor Ragnarock (Essential)
- Ant-man and The Wasp (Optional)
- Avengers: Infinity War (Essential)
- Avengers: Endgame (Essential)
- WandaVision (Essential)
- Spider-man (2002) (Optional)
- The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014) (Optional)
- Spider-man: Far From Home (Essential)
- Spider-man: No Way Home (Essential)
This list should give you the Doctor Strange experience and set you up with the essential knowledge for the Multiverse of Madness.
This movie is visually interesting as it got many opportunities for the animations team to wild and creative effects. Unlike most of the MCU movies there is not limit or boundaries to what they can do. And they are great at exploring new imaginative ways for Doctor Strange to use his magic and how it can look. There is also a scene where they fall through many different universes that have different effects on their physical forms. The only problem with this scene is that they may have added one or two universes too many or shorten it too much, in order to really get a good look at what the visual team have done.
Plot wise it felt like this movie were lacking a bit. Marvel have been very good at making big emotional movies that can really move you. But I did not feel it with this one. I had no moment where taken back and just felt the WOW effect. I think they chose wrong in who the big enemy was. I think they disrespected Wanda and everything she had just gone through in WandaVision, it felt like they chose to just drop the character arch they just started. And I do not think they had enough madness throughout the multiverse, it was more like two universes of some madness. All in all it felt more like a movie to bridge the past MCU with the future MCU than it felt like it was suppose to carry itself.
I do hope I was wrong and the movie will grow on me in the future but right now I can not give it more than three stars. It got some good moments and I really liked the creativity in the use of magic and the visual effects. But I think the story is too dependent on how future movies are going to draw on this one.
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