
Doctor Strange
The impossibilities are endless.
2016 • 115 min • Fantasy · Adventure · Action
Synopsis
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Our family guide
Best from age 11- 100 Reviewers · 12 · 75%
- 74 Audience · 23663 · 25%
After a car accident shatters his career, a brilliant but arrogant neurosurgeon seeks healing and discovers a hidden world of magic. He trains to become a powerful sorcerer, defending reality from mystical threats. The film explores themes of humility and self-sacrifice.
- Violence & peril
- 6/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 5/10
Heads up
- Intense magical battles with powerful energy blasts.
- Characters face peril and some appear seriously injured.
- Brief scenes of a character consuming alcohol.
- Jump scares and unsettling imagery in other dimensions.
What it models well
- Humility and selflessness
- Consequences of arrogance
- Responsibility and sacrifice
- Finding new purpose
Talk about it after
- The importance of helping others, even if it means personal sacrifice.
- How true strength comes from within, not just from skill or status.
- Understanding different realities and perspectives beyond our own.
- Dealing with loss and finding new ways to contribute.
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Top billed cast
Director: Scott Derrickson • Crew: Jon Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, C. Robert Cargill
Trailers & clips
The Ancient One Teaches Doctor Strange About Magic - Official Clip
Dormammu Time Loop - Official Clip
Legacy TV Spot
TV Spot
Official Trailer 1
Official Trailer 2
Teaser Trailer
Reviewer notes
RecommendedThe quest for self and truth is heavily built into this movie and that's one thing that's innately relatable for all of us. I'm pretty stoked on how Doctor Strange integrates into the Marvel-verse and I am on the edge of my seat for the next Marvel movie! We are not savages.
Recommended"Dormammu! I came to bargain! I hear the discounts are out of this dimension!" Kidding aside, this movie had stunning visuals, I never thought I'd enjoy. Marvel keeps improving their game I hope the other studious are paying attention.
RecommendedThis movie might give DCEU a run for their money. Doctor Strange is a personal best for 2016. Great watch!
RecommendedDoctor Strange gave me an Inception vibe with effects that were much on a grander scale. I'm a Nolan fan and even after seeing Dr. Strange, I'm impressed.
RecommendedIt was only a matter of time before magic and time travel found their way into the MCU, but Doctor Strange is a really well put together origin story on a character that could have been a mess to adapt as a film. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, along with the Benedicts give the film lots of charisma, but the real star here is the style that Scott Derrickson and his crew were able to create.…
RecommendedI thought marvel was going to far with all the releases.I was right about this one,Dr Strange was like Inception on DMT.Far to much CGI!.And for the story it started off in the right direction then it just ended up going STRANGE.All in all worth a look.But nothing special.
RecommendedIt is actually quite some time since I watched Doctor Strange but somehow the movie must have slipped between the cracks since I appear to have forgotten to review it. So I am about to remedy that now. To put it in simple terms: This is an excellent movie. It is a wonderful display of magical fireworks with a decent enough story to keep it together.…
Recommended**When a science person was the chosen one in the spiritual world!** You would have not expected it from this director if you had seen his previous films. This was based on the Marvel comics that I haven't touched. So basically I had high expectation to witness another side of Marvel universe with another set of (super)heroes.…
RecommendedI will begin this by saying I was hyped about this film since it was announced because I was always attracted to magic and the supernatural and Doctor Strange is one of my favorite Marvel superheroes. PLOT:A simple enough story,a brilliant surgeon's journey from the peak of his career to a ruined man,incapacitated due to an accident.…
RecommendedThough the core events may not be anything new for the MCU, particularly in so far as its origin stories go (Stephen Strange's A-to-B is virtually identical to Tony Stark's in the first _Iron Man_ film) the psychedelic filter through which we experience these events is entirely fresh! Not all of the humour lands, and in fact sometimes actually detracts from the story.…
RecommendedAll continues to be well in the Marvel Comics Universe as the film adaptation of another mischievous and majestic superhero from Stan Lee’s printed page empire emerges and reigns supreme on the big screen. The latest cure from the Marvel movie bag of explosive tricks is the entry of the dazzling and decorative **Doctor Strange**.…
RecommendedWith each new Marvel film one could expect the studio to push the limits of what a superhero film should consist of. Films such as Captain America: Winter Solider, Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man all consisted of elements that we have never seen within a superhero film before.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.4/10 (23,663)
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $180,000,000
- Box office
- $676,343,174
- Franchise
- Doctor Strange Collection
- IMDb
- tt1211837
- Official site
- www.marvel.com
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