Marvel did it again with their recycled origin story! Hero is a jerk/no-goodnik, hero has humiliating experience, hero goes through the process of learning new powers and hero gets skilled enough to defeat the villain. Could be a synopsis of Iron Man or Ant-Man but this one focused on magic. Where Strange succeeds is just changing the execution with Inception-esque effects as wizards/sorcerers duke it out. You know the drill.
Not much else really. Well, the cast was well chosen and you need to stay through the end credits for the two scenes which move the giant Infinity Gauntlet arc further and next year’s Thor film.
Alamo Extras: Silent movie with a wizard villain; Chvrches video; trailer for The Wizard of Space & Time (I’ve seen this movie long ago, it’s rather dull); commercial for the voice wizard to install on your Odyssey video game system; the same Marvel bit from the 1987 Macy parade; clips from Child of Peach; Holy Flame of the Martial World and Buddha’s Palm; clips from the 1978 Dr. Strange pilot on CBS and the early Nineties movie that got re-purposed when the license ran out, Dr. Mordid starring Jeffrey Combs; Funny or Die bit with Melissa Joan Hart and Nick Bakay; Dr. Strange’s appearances in various Marvel cartoons from the Eighties on; a goofy toy commercial; more Disney XD stuff involving the character.