Doctor Strange Reviews: 10 Big Things We Learned

10. It Sticks To The Marvel Formula...

Marvel have been often criticised for making essentially the same movie over and over again and most of their output looks like it came off the same factory conveyor belt. Unique visuals and artistic license is not the aim of the Marvel game, with familiarity and a shared universe being their goal.

Unfortunately, despite some forays into the uncommon, the general consensus is that Doctor Strange is not as strange as the title suggests.

Variety's Peter Debruge states that “Yes, this new project shares the same look, feel, and fancy corporate sheen as the rest of Marvel’s rapidly expanding Avengers portfolio..." with this sentiment being echoed by many other reviewers stating the formulaic nature of the storytelling.

Matt Singer at Screencrush even refers to the film as one of Marvel's "most formulaic origin stories" which is not exactly a ringing endorsement.

Not exactly a surprise that Marvel have yet to deviate from what has been so successful for them thus far, it is no doubt a bit of a disappointment that we are now on our fourteenth film from the Marvel assembly line.