Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madnes: Very few multiverses and very little madness
When this movie was announced, at least I expected it to be just like its title "Multiverse of Madness", but it wasn't really like that and movies like "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers", actually presented even more interesting and varied multiverses and crossovers. There is little "multiverse" in this movie, other than showing us a few versions of other Doctor Strange's, but without going too deep into them. Besides, throughout the duration of this movie we only saw a little bit about 1 single multiverse (The Illuminati universe) and they didn't show much more of the absurd deaths of those who were supposed to be the most powerful superheroes of that universe, not to mention the supposed "Smartest Man in the World", which is not very "smart", although I did like the fact that they chose that actor (John Krasinski) to play "Reed Richards".
I think because I'm a little tired of many things related to Marvel is that I did not like this movie, but I really expected something more interesting, at least explore more multiverses, even a little and not just that scene where Doctor Strange and America Chavez travel through several universes, but the time they last in those universes is so little that you have to pause the movie to visualize them a little better and even then you can not fully appreciate what they really are, because it is quite fleeting that moment of the film.
I liked the character of America Chavez, he has a very tragic origin and despite that he is a pretty cheerful character, although he is the type of character of "Hispanic origin" that when speaking in Spanish you can notice that accent that he is not really originally from any country in South America, but despite that he is a character that I liked. However, something that I did not like about the development of America Chavez is when he "learns" to control his powers and Doctor Strange before America's inability to control his powers until almost the end of the film, with only the words "you can, I trust you, use the power of friendship", is something so cliché that is pretty bad, plus to face Wanda, and remember that Wanda had just eliminated the supposedly strongest heroes of the other universe.
And while we're on the subject of these heroes, it really is the biggest disappointment in the world, I know they were only put on stage to show Wanda's superiority to them, but what a disappointment these characters were. I'll start with the Captain Marvel version of this universe. If the already "original" Captain Marvel was a bit despicable from her first movie, this version is much more despicable and I thought that was an impossibility. A disposable, boring, superb character that in the end was just a waste. The other worst character is Reed Richards, and how can he tell Wanda how Black Bolt's ability works, it's totally ridiculous that the smartest person in the world has revealed his partner's ability out of nowhere. And another thing is that while Reed Richards was dismembered in the most sadistic and painful way possible, both the version of Captain America (played by the actress of Agent Carter, which I really liked this character despite contributing almost nothing) called in this universe "Captain Carter" and the version of Captain Marvel of this universe, did nothing to help him but to see how one of his companions died?
Besides, why Wanda took so long to eliminate them, if the other characters were practically eliminated immediately, the one who could face her the least was the female version of Captain America, and even so she fought for a while against Wanda, it's a little illogical.
But not everything is bad really, the fight between the two Doctor Strange with the musical notes was really good, it was weird because these two characters could fight with other types of spells, but it was something original, plus each melody represented each Doctor Strange at that moment.
The "horror" moments were also good, especially the (disappointing") way in which Professor Xavier died, which is a character that has died several times from the X-Men movies to the present day.
Anyway, it's not really a bad movie, but it does have many things that detract a lot of points, especially for not offering anything of what its title "Multiverse of Madness" says, it has little of that and nothing more was something to draw the attention of viewers.
So in short: a lack of multiverse, madness and Xavier died again. 🤔
Yeah hahaha. Poor Xavier.
i wasn't even able to finish it. I'm not a huge fan of Superhero films especially when they try to turn them into comedies as well