![]() ![]() ![]() “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” is a ride, a head trip, a CGI horror jam, a what-is-reality Marvel brainteaser and, at moments, a bit of an ordeal. In theory, this should multiply the fun, though that’s not necessarily the way it works out. Its story doesn’t develop so much as it multiplies. It’s a movie set in several universes at once, and it keeps shooting off into ever more insane dimensions of alternate reality. What they did to the physical world “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” does to storytelling. He then went out into the world, armed with his new gift for creating weaponized circles of light, and faced down a team of Zealots whose central threat seemed to be their ability to turn a metropolis intersection into an erupting, folding-in-on-itself M.C. In the first “Doctor Strange,” a compact and debonair origin story released back in 2016 (time flies when you’re getting busy), Benedict Cumberbatch’s mordantly witty and self-obsessed Stephen Strange started off as a playboy surgeon, then lost the use of his hands in a car crash, then underwent a kind of “Karate Kid” training under the mystic eye of Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One. Now comes “ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” an entire film about the interface of parallel universes. ![]()
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