{"id":97816,"date":"2022-05-03T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/doctor-strange-2-reviews-praise-sam-raimis-wacky-touch\/"},"modified":"2022-05-03T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T16:48:02","slug":"doctor-strange-2-reviews-praise-sam-raimis-wacky-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/doctor-strange-2-reviews-praise-sam-raimis-wacky-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Strange 2 Reviews Praise Sam Raimi’s Wacky Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is nearly here, and \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d promises to expand the MCU in a major way: by opening up the multiverse, of course. <\/p>\n

First teased majorly in last year\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d the multiverse paves the way for different iterations of the same character to populate the MCU as we know it, and \u201cDoctor Strange 2\u201d finds Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s titular sorcerer (along with Elizabeth Olsen\u2019s Wanda Maximoff and some other friends) hopping from reality to reality, encountering different versions of themselves as well as new heroes destined to spawn new MCU franchises of their own.<\/p>\n

The first \u201cDoctor Strange 2\u201d reviews are in ahead of the film\u2019s May 6 release date, and while Marvel movies are usually fairly critic proof, last year\u2019s \u201cEternals\u201d \u2013 which was the first Marvel movie to earn largely negative reviews in years \u2013 stumbled at the box office. So how does \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d stack up? The consensus seems to be it\u2019s a fun ride, with \u201cEvil Dead\u201d director Sam Raimi allowed to bring some horror-tinged flourishes of his own, but ultimately it may prove to be an exhausting trip for some.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s Alonso Duralde said that while the film delivers on spectacle, it\u2019s light on the humanity that elevates other MCU films: \u201cThe follow-up to 2016\u2019s \u2018Doctor Strange\u2019 hits the ooh-and-aah marks we expect from a well-crafted Marvel adventure, but even with Sam Raimi at the helm, this entry goes heavy on the spectacle but light on the humanity.\u201d Duralde added, \u201cThe surface of this Everything Bagel is loaded with ingredients, but it lacks a certain flavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com<\/a> was similarly mixed on the film, noting that the overindulgence of CGI and Easter eggs left him feeling unfulfilled: \u201cThere have been complaints about MCU properties that feel like they exist merely to get people interested in the next movie or TV show, but it\u2019s never felt so much like a snake eating its own tail as it does here. Or at least the spell has worn off for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Over at Variety<\/a>, Owen Gleiberman called the convoluted plot \u201cexhausting\u201d: \u201cJust because you followed it all doesn\u2019t mean that \u2018Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u2019 earns every one of its elaborate and at times exhausting convolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Time<\/a>, Stephanie Zacharek praised Raimi\u2019s flourishes throughout the film: \u00a0\u201cEven in the midst of its typically (for Marvel movies) convoluted plot,\u00a0\u2018The Multiverse of Madness\u2019\u00a0has a Raimi-like sense of bleak humor,\u201d adding, \u201cif you squint and concentrate really hard, you can tell it\u2019s a Sam Raimi movie.<\/p>\n

Slashfilm\u2019s<\/a> Hoai-Tran Bui had similar praise for Raimi\u2019s touch: \u201cThe result is a horror-tinged trip that is as macabre and gnarly as Marvel has ever been, and as muted as Raimi has ever been. But even at his most muted, Raimi gives us one hell of a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, many critics noted that Raimi\u2019s fingerprints are more prevalent throughout the sequel than some expected. David Ehrlich of IndieWire<\/a> praised the film\u2019s \u201cviolent\u201d and \u201cwacky\u201d second half: \u201cSlowly, gradually, and then with great enthusiasm, what begins as a staid tale of people hurling CGI at larger pieces of CGI while yammering on about whatever new thing is threatening all existence evolves into something less familiar: A violent, wacky, drag-me-to-several-different-hells at once funhouse of a film that makes good on the reckoning Chiwetel Ejiofor promised at the end of the original by cutting away the safety net that previous installments of the MCU have tried to pretend wasn\u2019t there.\u201d<\/p>\n

THR\u2019s<\/a> John Defore echoed Ehrlich\u2019s sentiments about the film\u2019s final act being its best: \u201cThough never as darkly weird as its Lovecrafty title promised,\u00a0\u2018Madness\u2019\u00a0starts to play more to Raimi\u2019s strengths \u2014 it\u2019s looser, more kinetic and occasionally goofy despite the big stakes \u2014 and to offer some visions that may stick in viewers\u2019 heads even after they\u2019ve started devouring trailers for stories set in Wakanda, Asgard and the Quantum Realm.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the promise of a horror-tinged MCU film, IGN\u2019s<\/a> Amelia Emberwing said \u201cDoctor Strange 2\u201d makes good: \u201cPlenty of spooky scaries are lurking around corners \u2014 especially as things ramp up in the third act. Is it too scary for your kiddo? Your mileage may vary! The horror aspects help earn the PG-13 rating here, but contemplating the idea of half of the known universe suddenly disappearing seems a lot more complicated to stomach than a monster or two!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d opens exclusively in theaters on May 6.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The next Marvel Cinematic Universe movie is nearly here, and \u201cDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\u201d promises to expand the MCU in a major way: by opening up the multiverse, of course. First teased majorly in last year\u2019s \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d the multiverse paves the way for different iterations of the same character […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":97817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1651596483_Doctor-Strange-2-Reviews-Praise-Sam-Raimis-Wacky-Touch.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}