Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness trades the Marvel Studios' usual deft mix of blistering action and cockeyed humor for a daft mix of baffling abstraction and coked-up horror.
Sam Raimi, who directed the comparatively pedestrian Tobey Maguire universe of Spider-Man films, takes his new picture's title seriously and punches through nearly every wall of conventional narrative to turn viewers' minds every which way but loose.
A young dimension jumper named America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) is running from creatures that do the bidding of an evil version of second-string Avenger, The Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen).
America lands in the universe occupied by the Doctor Strange we all know and, maybe, love (Benedict Cumberbatch) with a story that if she's captured the witch will be able to take control of all of the occupants of the multiverse.
It's not explained how Wanda Maximoff got to be the baddest hexer in existence but neither Strange nor his cohort Wong (Benedict Wong) seem able to match her witchery. America tells them a mythical book of spells might do the trick but getting to it will be tough.
All of the hoodoo is bewildering and quickly becomes tedious because the audience can't invest in what they don't understand. And the creeper gore that Raimi throws into the mix just makes the picture messier.
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