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Originally Posted by James

I was watching Red Letter Media's review of Doctor Strange 2, and one of them said in it that No Way Home was like the longest Superbowl commercial ever made - which is exactly right.

eg. when Bill Murray reprises his role from Groundhog Day for an advert, but you are really just watching Bill Murray rather than the character. Matthew Broderick as Ferris was another example.

As much as I enjoy it for the nostalgia, I think there’s a good argument that as a stand-alone movie……… it would have been better without Toby and Andrew. Actually in hindsight, they could have established Multiverse and kept some of the best elements by just including Doc Oc and Norman Osborne/Green Goblin (with Holland still fixing Doc Oc’s inhibitor chip, and them teaming up against Green Goblin).

So I can see it both ways really. I like it for what it is, but as a standalone movie it obviously has large flaws.