The movie features one key addition in the form of a teenage girl (Xochitl Gomez of “The Baby-Sitters Club”) who possesses the ability to open doors into the multiverse. That most obviously includes “WandaVision,” which set up the character arc of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and her transformation into the Scarlet Witch, playing a pivotal role here but also “Loki,” offering its own dizzying exploration of parallel realities, which was created by the film’s writer, Michael Waldron. Yet the most significant recent touchstones in terms of the storytelling actually hail from Disney+, a sign of how vast and interconnected the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become. “I made the only play we had,” Strange says, by way of explaining the toll of the blip that sent people into oblivion for five years. It’s hard to believe that this is the first actual sequel to “Doctor Strange,” six years later, since Benedict Cumberbatch has played the sorcerer multiple times during that span, from the Avengers to Thor to most recently “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”ĭirected by Sam Raimi, who has his own Spidey ties, the movie has roots that reach back to Strange’s journey from the original, as well as the Avengers’ two-part battle against Thanos. All told, this sequel proves highly entertaining, if not quite worthy of the pent-up demand for it. Unleashing the infinite possibilities of the multiverse throws open the studio’s toy chest, but the anything-goes aspects of that can be alternately thrilling, disorienting and occasionally, a little silly. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” might be the most insanely Marvel movie ever, for good and ill.
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