Wanda I'm p sure that has less to do with just "breaking the rules" and more to do with turning an entire town into living puppets for weeks on end against their will
swiiing and a miss! Mostly. It did have more Raimi DNA shining through the muck than I expected at least. Complete with cheesy lines from bystander extras, extreme close-ups of girls screaming, books of the dead, and talking zombies
Mostly just didn't care about most of what was going on plot or character-wise which is definitely a problem. I think it all stems from the multiverse honestly, the bigger things get the easier it is to lose touch with individual character arcs. Likely gonna become more and more of a problem since this phase of MCU is clearly shifting towards that
What I did like:
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Best scene of the movie by FARRR was Scarlet Witch going full villain and slaughtering the Illuminati (lol). Lots of fun deaths in there. I really liked that they had her go fully evil in this movie although predictably they scrubbed that all clean at the end
I know there's been rumors for a while but Krasinski as Mr. Fantastic was something I def didn't see coming, surprised I didn't stumble on any spoilers for that. Kinda dull first appearance but I'm sure he'll be back and I can see him being good in that role
also - wish we got any full scenes in any of the multiverses they showed in the "falling" scene. They could've done some fun stuff with that ala Spider-Verse but instead we were limited to 0.1 seconds of each of them. Kind of a missed opportunity to have more fun with it
i enjoyed it but its def a movie that is geared towards hardcore MCU fanboys. the XMEN TAS head nod with prof X in the green suit and floating chair with the actual theme from the show playing in the background was a pure geek out moment and by far the biggest highlight for me. krasinski as mr fantastic was a close second.
generic action sequences throughout the movie but i did find it fun. the 4DX aspect of it helped. olsen and cumberbatch did a good job in their respective roles but i disliked the fact that whole conflict was a rehash of wandavision where wanda does bad things and in the end regrets them.
Meh! Wanted to like it because of Raimi. Liked the Raimi bits we got, some obvious and some fun subtle stuff straight from his Evil Dead days. But much like whenever the MCU got their hands on any other good director they just MCU'd right over their style for the most part
A shame because this really could've worked. How is a movie called Multiverse of Madness this dull lol. I'll forget almost everything within the next four hours. Why not take RISKS! They had an endless playground, but instead we went to a multiverse where red means go!!!!! jajaja! They really dumbed the concept down for their audience
The cameos were fine, but I got spoiled on Krasinski and Professor X was horribly wasted. I guess I get why they spoiled him in the trailer now lol, if they left him as a surprise and he still had this little to do it would've been pointless
I find myself compulsively rolling my eyes at a lot of the MCU more and more lately, probably starting with WandaVision. And strangely, most of it here was at Wanda and her dialogue. She had two lines that were like, "I'm not deranged, I'm a MOTHER!" or something. Bad!
A shame because Olsen is great, and I kinda like that they just went full unhinged Wanda here but obviously they don't have the guts to commit to that for more than 90 minutes. Almost wish they just said fuck it and made her the new big bad of the MCU
I kinda just don't like powers that let the hero....do literally whatever they want. It cannn lead to some cool stuff but it's not for me, and unfortunately Wanda and Strange are the two best examples of that kinda hero so this wasn't for me. I like when there's SOME "rules" or limitations to their abilities, like we all know what Spiderman can do (dumb Stark gear aside!) so it's fun when they get creative with physics and momentum during fights and you can track it. Instead of just hurling swirly lights at each other that can do literally anything. Boring
Also is it just me or is MCU cgi lazy af lately? It looks kinda..not great. Visually I was more impressed with the Lightyear trailer beforehand
Saving grace: Bruce Campbell. PIZZA POPPA! My dad and I are forever Campbell fans and were hoping for a cameo. Best post-credit scene in MCU history ez
I will say Olsen's cheesy ass dialogue was actually a highlight for me cuz it reminded me of the Raimi trilogy. Although probably less intentionally campy here and she could've hammed it up more ala Dafoe
Scarlet Witch as the heel was like the one thing that really worked for me here tho. And despite all the people whining that it "RUINS HER ARC IN WANDAVISION!!" I felt like this was the very natural progression for her after enslaving an entire town of people
I too would've loved if they made her the new big bad
Also, that first montage where they were falling through the multiverse looked so fucking bad. They just put a fucking cartoon filter on it at one point.
