Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness: 10 Reasons It Sucks

4. The Stakes Are Now Completely Gone

Low stakes have always been a problem in the MCU, but Doctor Strange 2 takes that to the next level.

It's a lot harder to care about what's going on when a variant or a different version of events could pop up at any moment and furthermore, everything is now far, far too big. Such an overblown sense of scale makes the franchise feel largely un-grounded and thus kills so much potential tension.

It's ironic really. This film was designed to show off the multiverse but it actually strongly suggests that the MCU should, where possible, just leave the concept alone.

It worked in Spider-Man: No Way Home because the film just stayed in one reality and used the multiverse shenanigans to tell a dramatic story and it just about worked in the Loki series for similar reasons, but in this particular instalment it just felt completely ludicrous and overblown.

In the future, the MCU should either keep multiverse stories in one reality or just leave well alone if this movie is anything to go by. The multiverse is too large and kills the stakes too much.