“There are some creatively staged and executed action sequences in Multiverse of Madness that only could have been made by the director of Drag Me to Hell, and those moments are easily the film’s highlights and almost rescue it. One just wishes it didn’t take so long to get to them and that they weren’t tethered to a movie that too often doesn’t have any idea what to do with that energy […] the story keeps coming back to incredibly shallow character traits…” 2/5 RogerEbert.com
the idea that Raimi’s signature touch amounts to rewarming old flourishes from his work over the last four decades is a wildly embarrassing and juvenile way to think about filmmaking: what you actually get here is the Marvel house style with Raimi flavouring sprinkled on top, and anything that feels outrageous only does so in the context of the franchise’s fussily restrictive ruleset. The style here is as superficial as the empty gesture politics…” 2/5 The Telegraph (UK)
” …it rarely feels like the characters are occupying real physical space, such is the dependence on mostly weightless CGI. The MCU’s ability to generate stakes also feels under threat here: an early battle with a one-eyed, tentacular beastie sees passers-by joyfully gawp like they’re watching a parade balloon float by […] Still, there are enough crowd-pleasing moments to reward the faithful…” 3/5 Total Film
“Cumberbatch’s Strange winds up playing addled master of ceremonies to a loopy psychedelic chase movie that never settles down enough to locate its emotional core […] just because you followed it all doesn’t mean that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness earns every one of its elaborate and at times exhausting convolutions.” Variety
Release:
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is scheduled to hold its world premiere on May 2, 2022, and will be released in the UK on May 5 and USA on May 6, 2022, in RealD 3D, IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and ScreenX.
Rating:
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, frightening images and some language.
