This Doctor Strange sequel is the latest exercise in Marvel's phase IV effort to bore me to tears. In the film, we find several iterations of Stephen Strange, each from a parallel universe, and each Strange is more tedious than the last.
The entire film revolves around a pointless character named America Chavez, who apparently is gifted with unexplained powers that allow her to travel thru Marvel's insidious effort to market a "multiverse" to audiences.
She is a Dorothy Gale type character, cut straight out of the Wizard of Oz, able to travel inexplicably in times of stress from one parallel world to another. For whatever reason, Marvel neglected to provide much background or insight into the character of America Chavez, leaving audiences very uninterested in her fate. She is more a plot device that enables these shifts to parallel worlds, than an actual character. We really couldn't care less about what happens to her, and unfortunately her fate is the entire point of this pointless film.
Elizabeth Olsen as 'Avenger' Wanda Maximoff is now the villain in the aftermath of WandaVision, seeking to obtain Ms. Chavez's power to travel the multiverse. The continued descent of the Scarlet Witch in this film only adds to viewer's misery. By the end, we are left without a hero.
The effects and CGI are interesting at times, with the distinct exception of the unsettling plastic LEGO hair placed atop the head of Benedict Cumberbatch.
The film climaxes with America Chavez arriving at her Dorothy Gale moment, figuratively clicking her heels three times and proclaiming, "I think I can, I think I can", setting all aright. Sorry Ms. Chavez, but we're not in Kansas, and no one cares.
The entire film revolves around a pointless character named America Chavez, who apparently is gifted with unexplained powers that allow her to travel thru Marvel's insidious effort to market a "multiverse" to audiences.
She is a Dorothy Gale type character, cut straight out of the Wizard of Oz, able to travel inexplicably in times of stress from one parallel world to another. For whatever reason, Marvel neglected to provide much background or insight into the character of America Chavez, leaving audiences very uninterested in her fate. She is more a plot device that enables these shifts to parallel worlds, than an actual character. We really couldn't care less about what happens to her, and unfortunately her fate is the entire point of this pointless film.
Elizabeth Olsen as 'Avenger' Wanda Maximoff is now the villain in the aftermath of WandaVision, seeking to obtain Ms. Chavez's power to travel the multiverse. The continued descent of the Scarlet Witch in this film only adds to viewer's misery. By the end, we are left without a hero.
The effects and CGI are interesting at times, with the distinct exception of the unsettling plastic LEGO hair placed atop the head of Benedict Cumberbatch.
The film climaxes with America Chavez arriving at her Dorothy Gale moment, figuratively clicking her heels three times and proclaiming, "I think I can, I think I can", setting all aright. Sorry Ms. Chavez, but we're not in Kansas, and no one cares.
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