Dennis Kelly at the USC Student Health Center but they didn’t realize it was pervasive until a graduate sued in 2019 claiming he had been forced to undergo an uncomfortable rectal exam during a routine checkup. Scores of other men - most of them gay or bisexual - said they had disturbing encounters with Dr. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” opens in US theaters May 6.LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kenny Oshita was a first semester law student at the University of Southern California when a visit to a school doctor for a possible sexual disease turned into an invasive procedure that left him feeling violated. But there’s a level of human drama missing from “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” the surface of this Everything Bagel is loaded with ingredients, but it lacks a certain flavor. Raimi die-hards will enjoy his puckish sense of amusement at the liberties he’s allowed to take with ground rules and with gravity (not to mention his fleeting shout-outs to classic films like “Spellbound” and “The Defiant Ones”), and Marvel fans will come away thrilled with hints as to where this mega-franchise might go next (and who it might include as it does so).
(Most of the other cast spends their time yelling out plot points - with the notable exception of the reliably droll Benedict Wong - which leaves time to notice the series of terrible wigs Cumberbatch is forced to wear as various iterations of Stephen Strange.)
The good doctor doesn’t get nearly as much to play this time around, apart from some mooning over his failed relationship with Christine (a returning Rachel McAdams), and while America seems like a potentially interesting addition to the MCU, she spends so much of this movie either in active distress or delivering exposition that we don’t get much of a sense of who she is at all. “Doctor Strange” introduced us to a character who is brilliant and arrogant, a man who loses everything he has but reinvents himself, transforming from a legendary surgeon to a master of the mystic arts. ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’ and ‘The Marvels’ Swap Places on MCU Release Calendar This teenager first appears in Strange’s dreams - where he fails to save her, or himself - and then in the middle of Manhattan, where she is being pursued by giant tentacled eyeball, a very Sam Raimi kind of kaiju. Strange’s hubris opened up a part of the multiverse in “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” and now that multiverse lands on his doorstep in the form of America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez, Netflix’s “The Baby-Sitters Club”).
Viewers should probably also be up on the Disney+ series “WandaVision,” in which Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) used her own magic powers to create an artificial reality in which her husband Vision had not died and the two of them had a pair of adorable sons in a sitcom-perfect suburb. “Multiverse of Madness” is a sequel to “Doctor Strange,” with the ex-Sorcerer Supreme (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) taking on a new threat to reality itself. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Trailer: Doctor Strange Comes Face to Face With Strange Supreme (Video)