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Review: Very under-rated

posted 7 years ago by CountVladDracula
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This is the the very under-rated Doctor Strange animated movie from nine years ago. Roughly the same plot as the live action movie but it goes into detail about why Doctor Strange wanted to be a Doctor, left The Ancient One in tact, and does not require Doctor Strange to need a sling Ring to open a portal. Also, like in the comics, Mordo is the real villain of the origin story.

The Ancient One always knew Doctor Strange was destined to be the next Sorcerer Supreme and never turned him away (just tested him heavily) and it's indicated that Doctor Strange had a predispostion for Magick he just never knew about. He is able to see through a Glamour spell he was not supposed to, before even damaging his hands.

If you like the live action Doctor Strange I urge you to check out this sorely under-rated animated film. (Note: do not confuse this with the Doctor Strange knock off movie of the early 90s or the 1970s Doctor strange live action movie).

Also if you ever played Avengers Alliance (The Facebook game) you will find they stole / sampled some of their music from this movie.

The animation is gorgeous and surpasses some Disney cell animation. Also some flashbacks give Strange more depth. It's as beautiful as an animated Disney feature and is sorely underated.

Seriously, this is a beautiful movie. Don’t consider it as competition for the movie but a companion piece for it. If you liked Doctor Strange I urge you to watch this slightly more comic book accurate version that has fallen into semi-obscurity. It’s surprisingly beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryOsDRg5pFQ

https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Strange/dp/B000RHMQDA/ref=tmm_dvd_title_2?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

[–] rale-mihajlovic 7 years ago

I completely agree with you, i think its even better than the movie :D

[–] CountVladDracula 7 years ago

To a certain extent there are aspects that are better than the live action movie. There are things I love about the live action movie too but I like that the animated one goes into detail about Doctor Strange's past, what caused the chip on his shoulder, suggesting that he had latent magical potential (Not everyone can do it!) when he saw through the glamour spell no one else could, showing that most of the sorcerers mastered one elemental style of magick while The Sorcerer Supreme could master them all, and of course no obnoxiously contrived sling rings (I hate those things!). And of course The Ancient One knew from the start he was to be The Sorcerer Supreme and never cast him out.