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Read The Scripts Film Review: Was The Madness Too Much For Doctor Strange?

Updated: Aug 22, 2023


Marvel Studios Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was really good and something else, in the beginning of the film we see America Chavez and one of Doctor Strange variants trying to retrieve The Book of Vishanti but they are being attack by Gargantos. They are trying their very best to kill the monster, but it was too strong and this version of Doctor Strange was going to take America powers so he can use it but the monster end up killing him and America was able to transports the both of them to Earth 616.


Earth 616 Strange saw his ex Christine Palmer get married and he had a interesting conversation with his ex co worker Nicodemus West and he also had a talk with Christine. He told her he wish things would have be different between them and after the conversation Strange looks down at the street and see America getting attack by Gargantos. He goes down to stop the monster and with the help of Wong they was able to killed Gargantos, then Strange and Wong talk to America about the Multiverse and how she is able too open up a portal to different earths and that when they decided to get some help too figure out who sent Gargantos after America.


Strange went to visit Wanda and ask for her help but she is the one who is going after America and she told Strange that she will do anything to get her boys back, and we see Wanda go to Kamar-Taj and attack everyone. But Strange and America was able to get away by going through a portal that America open up and we see the both of them moving through different dimensions. They end up on Earth 838 and we find out what happened to America parents and this part of the movie was okay but I think we will get more of her backstory in future MCU films or TV series,


Wanda had Wong take her to Mount Wundagore after her darkhold book was destroyed and this Mountain holds the darkhold powers and a Scarlet Witch statue so Wanda was able to use the powers of the darkhold again to dream walk and use the body of Earth 838 Wanda to go after them. Strange and America go to the Sanctum Sanctorum and meet Karl Mordo who is the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth 838 and they talk too him about Wanda and the darkhold, but Mordo knock the both of them out and takes Strange to meet The Illuminat. This is where we see Captain Carter, Professor X, Maria Rambeau as Captain Marvel, Black Bolt and Reed Richards aka Mister Fantastic. The Group tells Strange about what happened to Earth 838 Strange and how he use the darkhold to stop Thanos but the darkhold corrupted him so much that Earth 838 Strange cause an incursion to happened and destroyed another earth so that when The Illuminati decided to kill him.


Wanda show up to take America back to Mount Wundagore but The Illuminat when to go stop but she kills all of them except Mordo because he was fighting Strange, and I have to say the way Wanda killed The Illuminat was something I didn't expect to see in a MCU film, how she took out Black Bolt, Mister Fantastic and Professor X was really good. Strange, America and Earth 838 Christine was able to go between the universes so they can get The Book of Vishanti but Wanda attack them destroyed the book and use America powers to sent Strange and Christine too another earth. The both of them end up on a destroyed earth and we see Earth 616 Strange go up against a evil version of himself who been using the darkhold, I thought this fight was okay but I can see why most people don't like it. Earth 616 Strange kills the evil version of himself and use the darkhold to dream walk but he has to use the dead body of the other Doctor Strange that's on Earth 616 to stop Wanda.


We go Back to Mount Wundagore and Wanda is getting ready to take America powers but Zombie Strange and Wong try to stop her but she is too powerful and Strange tells America to take control of her powers so she can stop her. When Wanda and America was fighting America open up a portal so Earth 616 Wanda can go get her boys, but Earth 838 versions of Billy and Tommy tells 616 Wanda to leave them alone and 838 version of Wanda tells 616 Wanda that she will take care of the boys and this scene was good. The fight scene between America and Wanda wasn't good and they should have done more to make it look better, but I did like the interaction between both Wanda's.


We see Earth 616 Wanda sacrifice herself and destroyed Mount Wundagore and The Darkhold through out the Multiverses, and after all of that we see some of the sorcerers fixing up Kamar-Taj and Chavez training with them. I can see Strange being a mentor to help Chavez become better at controlling her powers. At the end of the film we see that the darkhold has given Strange the third eye, and in the mid-credits scene Clea show up and tells Strange that he cause an incursion and must deal with it and we see the both of them going into the Dark Dimension.


I have to say that I really enjoyed this film I like most of the CGI, some of the fight scenes, some of the horror stuff and the story wasn't the best but if you watch Wandavision you should be able to understand what is going on in the film. The one thing that I didn't like was the advertisement of this film, Marvel show too much in the TV spots and they shouldn't have reveal some of the cameos. And I think Christine and America Chavez should have be use a little more in the film and having Bruce Campbell in the film was fun to see. I would recommend to watch this film and I will give it a 8/10

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