Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

For fans of Doctor Strange, this movie might feel a little frustrating to watch. It oozes with missed opportunities and under-utilized characters. The story is as tedious as sitting in a waiting room after forgetting your phone at home and the intended comedy bits would fit better in a youtube cringe compilation. That being said, similar to sprinkling confetti on a sh*t sandwich and submitting it to a baking contest, Sam Raimi’s touch adds some uniqueness to the movie thanks to some clever horror sequences and some fantastic character design that will definitely entertain fans of the MCU universe for a couple of hours. The overall taste this movie will leave in your mouth depends immensely on how invested you are in these characters and how high your tolerance is for CGI overloaded scenes. Ultimately, walking out of the cinema theatre I can’t help but feel like Raimi’s vision was held back by the PG13 rating and the overall structure that an MCU movie must follow to keep the shareholders happy. Hopefully, Raimi will be back in the future with a new superhero movie that has fewer rules surrounding the character, I think he could also do well directing one of the many episodes of an MCU show on Disney+. In the meantime, I’ll keep hoping for a different version of this movie, somewhere in the multiverse.