In one of the 700 or so action battle sequences in Sam Raimi’s often bat-bleep crazy “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” our titular hero hears a disturbance outside a wedding reception—and sure enough, he has to spring into action when he sees a pesky intergalactic monster creature hurling cars and buses around and terrifying the good people of New York City, who can’t seem to make it through a full year without some horrific threat to their very existence. It must be exhausting!
Anyway. The monster. It’s a ridiculously grotesque entity, with a giant Cyclops eye and tentacles that’ll just squeeze the life out of ya—but even with today’s impressive and ubiquitous CGI technology, there’s something almost comedically, B-movie entertaining about this dopey beast, who looks to be literally a giant mollusk out of water. I mean, after the likes of Thanos and Ultron, we’re supposed to be blown away by this guy?
