Easily my least favourite Marvel movie ever.

It has every problem marvel movies tend to have but worse. First of all, it relies heavily on you having seen WandaVision for large parts of it. The plot is formulaic. The fight scenes are flashy and nonsensical with no way to know who's winning and absolutely NO TENSION. The character power levels are all over the place like never before. The villain's power without exaggeration goes from Captain Marvel levels to a Scooby Doo villain level and back as the plot requires it. A whole quarter of the movie is there just as a setup for future MCU movies.

In addition to this, the character motivations are skin deep and the villain's is just laughably contrived. Characters break aspects of their character that have been strongly established in the same movie or previous ones. There isn't even any of the usual MCU humor and the few jokes fall flat. The resolution of the movie is just a flat out Deus Ex Machina. The movie heavily emphasizes a part of Strange's character that he needs to change, really beats the audience over the head with it. In the scene where Strange realizes this and displays the personal growth the movie has been hinting at he does it in just about the dumbest way possible, just monumentally stupid. That's the only scene where the character growth is on display other than one detail later.

On the other hand the movie does have lots of flashy colours which are kinda nice, so it gets a two.