Doctor Strange 2

This week's movie rental was Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ...

a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Doctor Strange .... and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Rachel McAdams. In the film, Strange protects America Chavez (Gomez), a teenager capable of traveling the multiverse, from Wanda Maximoff (Olsen).

To understand everything that happens in the film, it halps to have seen the first Doctor Strange movie, of course, and to have seen the Avengers movies, and Spider-Man: No Way Home (which I haven't), but to also have watched the Disney tv series WandaVision (which I haven't).

It also wouldn't hurt to know about the idea of a multiverse. Let physicist Btian Greene explain ...



But anyway, here's the basic plot. Doctor Starnge meets and helps a teen who has the power to travel at will through the multiverse. She is being hunted down by Wanda, the Scarlet Witch, who has become evil after reading the Darkhold, the book of the damned. Doctor Strange and the girl travel through many universes, Strange meeting a number of his doppelgängers and some familiar but alternate friends (like Patrick Stewart's Professor X), eventually finding a way to stop Wanda.

Here's a review from The Atlantic ... The New Doctor Strange Is Not Just Another Marvel Movie

It was fun :)