The Marvel characters gathered in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” might as well wear nametags and do team-building exercises, tnyfrontrow writes.
.) “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” eliminates the playful idiosyncrasy in the interest of formula—of Marvel’s self-perpetuating business. The new film isn’t merely branded entertainment; it’s branding as entertainment.
Along the way, Strange encounters and battles a host of other Marvel characters, notably, the members of a secret society called the Illuminati that includes his friend and nemesis Karl Mordo and other delegates from such a wide range of Marvel properties that they might as well wear nametags and do team-building exercises. The film is promotional and functional.
The involvement of a stylish horror-film director, Sam Raimi, in this tawdry slog of corporate constraint is as fascinating as it is disheartening.