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Speaker 1: Great the flick with Ben o'she on ninety six am.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Ben, Good morning guys. I'm excited today.

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Speaker 1: You are a little bit pumped. It's a bit of Marvel,

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Speaker 1: Marvel working.

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Speaker 2: A bit of Marvel. And look, not all Marvel movies

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Speaker 2: are good, some are great, some are not so good.

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Speaker 2: But the most recent one we saw, Spider Man No

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Speaker 2: Way Home, was an absolute cracker, massive, massive box office

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Speaker 2: smash around the world and just genuinely a really good film. So, like,

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Speaker 2: I came into this film to be honest, compared to

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Speaker 2: Spider Man No Way Home, I didn't think that the

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Speaker 2: Doctor Strange sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

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Speaker 2: would live up to it for a couple of reasons.

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Speaker 2: Like So, this film has been directed by Sam Raimi,

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Speaker 2: who fansy no directed the original Spider Man trilogy with

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Speaker 2: Toby maguire. He's considered sort of the father of the

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Speaker 2: modern superhero movies because superhero movies were kind of dead

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Speaker 2: in the water before Sam Raimi came along in two

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Speaker 2: thousand and two. But his real claim to fame for

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Speaker 2: film buffs is the Evil Dead franchise, because like, he

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Speaker 2: made his name as a sort of that sort of

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Speaker 2: campy horror sort of stuff from the late eighties and nineties,

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Speaker 2: and there was talk that he was going to bring

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Speaker 2: those horror vibes to the Marvel cinematic universe, and I

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Speaker 2: just to be honest with you, I just couldn't see

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Speaker 2: how it was going to work. And Disney gave me

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Speaker 2: a little twenty minute preview of the film before I

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Speaker 2: did some interviews for it a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: and I was, to be honest, a little underwhelmed. The

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Speaker 2: film has been written by Michael Waldron, who wrote the

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Speaker 2: low Ki series on Disney Plus, and from that first

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Speaker 2: twenty minutes I could see that it really required viewers

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Speaker 2: to really brush up on their Marvel knowledge. There was

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Speaker 2: a Disney Plus series WandaVision from last year that was

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Speaker 2: written around the character of the Scarlet Witch played by

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth Olsen, one of the Avengers, and it seemed like

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Speaker 2: if you didn't know that show intimately, you probably wouldn't

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Speaker 2: understand and the basic plot of the multiverse of Madness.

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Speaker 2: And to me, I find that a bit frustrating when

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Speaker 2: you can't just go in and watch a movie and

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Speaker 2: you have to basically be an academic course first.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm like that with Harry Potter.

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Speaker 2: Don't know the stuff, But I tell you what, I

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Speaker 2: could not have been more wrong. The Multiverse of Madness

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Speaker 2: is a cracking film, and it brings in those Sam

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Speaker 2: Raimi evil Dead vibes in a way that was so

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Speaker 2: unexpected but so cool, so different from other Marvel movies. Basically,

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Speaker 2: we find Doctor Strange played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who was

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Speaker 2: in the first movie. We were introduced to him a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago. Neurosurgeon has a car accident, can't

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Speaker 2: operate anymore. So it's at a real crossroads in his life.

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Speaker 2: So he goes on this sort of journey of self discovery,

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Speaker 2: finds himself in Nepal, where he manages to acquire these

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Speaker 2: sort of mystical powers magic. Basically rises to the rank

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Speaker 2: of sorcerer Supreme, becomes an avenger, saves the world a

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Speaker 2: good bunch of times, you know, the usual sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: This time around, we find him like still trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out his place in the world, Like he's he

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Speaker 2: lost his girl when he became a superhero. She's married

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Speaker 2: some other bloke, and all of a sudden he's drawn

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Speaker 2: into this new danger presented by this young girl played

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Speaker 2: by Social Gomez, who has the ability to jump between

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Speaker 2: parallel universes or the multiverse. Yeah, pretty handy skill, right,

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Speaker 2: And in these in these multiverses, there are like an

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Speaker 2: infinite number of versions of ourselves. So can you imagine

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Speaker 2: there's a there's a bunch in every universe, all a

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Speaker 2: little bit different, right, And the idea is that when

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Speaker 2: you dream, what you're actually doing is getting a window

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Speaker 2: into what's happening to an alternate version of yourself in

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Speaker 2: another universe. Cool idea. And so there is an evil

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Speaker 2: doer in this case, it is the Scarlet Witch played

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Speaker 2: by Lisabeth Olsen, who wants to get control of this power,

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Speaker 2: of this young girl's power because she has her own

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Speaker 2: reasons for wanting to jump through the multiverse herself. And

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Speaker 2: so it comes up to doctor Strange to stop her

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Speaker 2: from doing it. And so it's basically friend versus friend

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Speaker 2: all of those types of things, which usually makes for

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Speaker 2: a good drama. And Elizabeth Olsen's story is really powerful

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Speaker 2: as well, like surprisingly like emotional in a way that

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Speaker 2: these superhero movies rarely are. And so then things unfolded

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Speaker 2: there and it's you know, it's a special effects bonanza,

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Speaker 2: really top shelf CG effects all throughout, crazy crazy cameos

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Speaker 2: that Marvel fans will just you know, they'll just be

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Speaker 2: jumping out of their seat almost cheering at some of

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Speaker 2: the some of the characters that appear in this.

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Speaker 1: Movie and possibly the only movie ever to start to Benedict's. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well you know what, it actually has even more Benedicts

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Speaker 2: than that, because you're talking about multiple universes. So in

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Speaker 2: the end, I think in the end, I think doctor

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Speaker 2: Strange is saying, you know, he's talking about the other

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Speaker 2: other me. So there is there is a bunch of Benedicts.

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Speaker 1: Because there's Benedict Wog as well as better coming back

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Speaker 1: to and then a few times then by three or

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Speaker 1: four each. Yeah, okay, so much? All right, Well, so

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Speaker 1: you were pleasantly surprised. Sounds like you loved it. How

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Speaker 1: many sort of extra curricular BENEDICTI you're giving it?

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Speaker 2: Well, this one is actually divided the critics. Some people

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Speaker 2: didn't go along for the ride because it's a very

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Speaker 2: unique movie by Marvel standards. I did like it. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to give this one for Benedicts.

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Speaker 1: Four Benedicts. Wow, Well there's probably more in parallel universe.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot such thing as Marvel fatigue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and I think I think that I think

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Speaker 2: there definitely is. And we've seen a couple of their

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Speaker 2: recent movies that have been less successful, right, but this

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Speaker 2: one is so different. I think it freshens up the

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Speaker 2: whole superhero genre.

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Speaker 1: I've just seen the pro the trailer has just gone

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Speaker 1: to wear on the TV in front of me, right,

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Speaker 1: the red cape, blue suit. Things that always been a

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Speaker 1: doctor strange things because they're taking the mickey out of

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Speaker 1: DC with Superman, because it's a bit.

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Speaker 2: O No, No, that's it. That's it's that's what's been saying. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he goes back to the nineteen sixties.

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Speaker 1: I think ter th awesome. Okay, thanks, but now we

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Speaker 1: know who wore at Firsher. Nice to be informed, Ben,

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: You're talking next week, you guys.

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Speaker 1: Ben o'she It was nice to hear Ben excited about him. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for Benedicts, that's that's high praise from Ben