Buckle up! Gonna get bumpy....it is odd because the entire film is dependent on your viewing the series, WandaVision. There is no real character development or better yet, story development. It is just a jump into a story riddled with confusion if you have not seen WandaVision.... Not that you should not watch it. It was great!
Spoilers ahead! The idea is that Wanda creates an entire world around her in a small town to escape the truth of her loss of Vision. DESPITE the world losing half of everyone, when they are returned, she still does not get Vision back. Which leads to her alternate reality "escape" in WandaVision. Where she has managed and is powerful enough create an entire reality and submerge herself and AN ENTIRE TOWN in, yet cannot manage to just rebuild this robot? Which would sate her apparent crippling dependence on a "manbot". So that is WandaVision in a nutshell, and the addition of another Witch just to make it interesting.
Now with this movie had you not known that, the movie attempts to explain it, with side remarks and hidden reveals that are NOT subtle call backs. Yet, the entire film relies on this SUPER being, which Wanda is, getting kids that don't belong to her in an alternate reality.she can achieve this by introducing a third wheel super human, who can traverse the multiverse but has no real control nor use of her powers until the last 25 minutes, but is named "America". By draining this new girl of her powers Wanda could basically abduct her children from herself in another universe. After that soup of madness, which is all explained in the first 40 minutes or so, what's the point? ....Oh, that is right let us drag out what you have already explained, and show off a multiverse that will be torn to shreds by a powerful being.
This made me hate Wanda! But that was misplaced hatred because it was the haphazard writing I really should have hated, and do. I could not relate, she just seemed arrogant & greedy. Dr. Strange was no real help and I am not asking for a whole "fireside chat" with the woman but his approach to the situation also felt indifferent. She really was not the enemy here, but the character was so poorly developed that we couldn't like her. Meanwhile Dr. Strange gets to find alternate versions of his love interest across the multiverse... record stop! Why couldn't Wanda just want Vision or an alternate Vision? The whole escape in NJ in the town she possessed was her and Vision having children. The loss was Vision not these kids that were never REAL. I can relate to a mother losing her children but she never had any! The only thing she lost was a spouse-bot. Which she literally remade with magic. However I'm expected to believe this powerful Witch can see into alternate realities but not travel there. She can possess herself there, and SEE that it's not her own reality?! However it takes Dr. Strange and America another hour to show her "oh wait a tic! These kids have a mother and that mother is me! I cannot take them from her/me"?? Seriously? I mean REALLY!? It is lazy. They made her to be one of the most powerful MCU characters and then what? Killed her? I dunno you'd have to watch it but in all honesty it made me want to see something with Wanda in it that wasn't a series about her grieving the loss of a robot or a film about her grieving her own kids from an alternate reality in which SHE is NOT the mother of. This is a slap in the face of women because ALL THEIR HAPPINESS CAN COME FROM ONLY either a man (robot)? Or CHILDREN? WTF!?
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