oh no,
I think this is one of those situation where I have to again explain in full depth why Kevin Feige is not Steven Spielberg, Billy Wilder or James Cameron in the great producers debate with the violence of comic book movies pg 13 style.
No, again and for the last time. dr strange 2 is not violent in way that starts a debate of pg 13 because of the nature and style of the movie. Dr Strange is basically a very animated looking movie and the violence itself looked so fake and unrealistic that it does not carry any debate outside the Marvel Disney bubble .People keep asking me if I watched the film, yes I did, 8 days ago, now I feel it is fair to ask have we watched other pg 13 comic book films?
I think the best way to make easier is to look at it this way, if a comic book director of the past let's say Bryan Singer or Christopher Nolan were to look at dr strange 2? what will they think and what will they change. I am guessing everything including the violence. I think both from their own record and past commentary about superhero movies, they will make the violence far more realistic and the direction would be better and they will build the cinematography from scratch from the over the top colourful looking movie that real life human beings should not be living in.
I am not going to jump on the issue of Disney has ruined marvel because that phrase is just too toxic now but it is indeed fair to say Disney has placed limitation on marvel movies. I for one has always been against Disney owning IPs like Daredevil, X-MEN, Blade and even Spiderman and looking at dr strange 2 , I would not want that to even be an X-MEN movie because this movie looks very cartoonish and ridiculous compared to a film like X-Men 2 because with xmen 2 where the director would ground as much as he can, to make even the fictional stuff look realistic, Dr strange 2 is like watching a video game from the mid 2000s where the violence does not irk because you know it is not real.
You cannot take the violence in dr strange 2 and put next to a film like Fight Club, that would be like Michael Jordan steeping into Space Jam. However you can take the violence from xmen 2, especially the wolverine or magneto scenes and put it in a film like Fight Club and it would not look out of place. You would just think the Brad Pitt and Edward Norton characters from Fight Club now have super powers. that is the difference I am trying to stress here.
I have seem many pg 13 comic films in the past that now, I may say maybe should have been rated r. I just wont do that with what I saw from dr strange 2 because there is no reason for a live action movie that is made to look so animated and spew rainbows would need an r rating.