In the universe in which T he Multiverse of Madness opens, Stephen Strange must watch his sometime girlfriend, Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams), walk down the aisle to marry another guy. Who knew? Thusly, there are many different iterations of Doctor Strange, all of them decked out in the trademark sentient red cloak, but not all of them nice. This time, our surgeon-turned-superhero learns-from an encounter with America, whom he must save from a massive one eyed-octopus who has dropped from nowhere onto the streets of New York-that there’s not just one universe, the one we currently live in, but many. Again, he plays the character with one eyebrow perpetually arched, as it should be. Stephen Strange, a flawed superhero who often does the wrong thing for the right reasons, is again played, as in the 2016 movie preceding this one, by Benedict Cumberbatch. And even in the midst of its typically (for Marvel movies) convoluted plot, The Multiverse of Madness has a Raimi-like sense of bleak humor: Dr.
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