‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ review: One of the year’s worst

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Eternals” was vile, “Black Widow” was OK, “Shang-Chi” was a lot of fun) has been joined by one of the worst films so far in the bloated 27-movie franchise — not to mention one of the worst of the year — “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”That, unbelievably, is a movie title and not a doctoral student’s 250-page dissertation.Running time: 126 minutes.

Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, frightening images and some language.) In theaters.Now we have a firsthand idea of what it was like to witness the fall of the Roman Empire.

Marvel was once, quality-wise, one of the surest things in Hollywood. A rotten film was released here and there, sure, but generally speaking there was a baseline standard that was usually met. “Black Panther” was a 2018 Best Picture Oscar nominee.Now, as the money-grubbing studio pumps out endless TV shows and yearly films like Instant Pots at Christmas, the MCU has warped into a mindless parade of over-stuffed duds.A movie as incompetent as “Doctor Strange 2” could only have resulted from executives being spread too thin to actually read the script.

Anybody who tells you the story makes a lick of sense is probably a family member of writer Michael Waldron.Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is back casting spells on Bleecker Street, jumping through magic fire circles with Wong (Benedict Wong) and doing his mind-bendy trick that was much more entertaining in the 2016 flick.This time, he meets America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez, devoid of a personality), a superhero who can hop between realities in the “multiverse” — a word that should make you shudder.