Anyone Else Find The Doctor Strange Trailer Underwhelming?

The first Doctor Strange trailer has been released and unlike every other Marvel teaser, it didn’t really impress me.

For years now, the movie industry has turned the release of a new trailer for a highly anticipated film into an event unto itself. There are now actually teasers for the trailer, which seems a bit redundant if you ask me, but there can be no doubt that they work. Fans get excited, the hype around said movie builds and everyone wins.

One of the masters of this over the years has been Marvel Studios. Few in Hollywood have been able to turn the release of a new trailer into a media spectacle quite like the folks at Marvel, with each new trailer garnering millions of views in amazingly short periods of time.

Of course, none of this would work if the trailers themselves weren’t worth watching, and each and every time they are. Marvel knows how to make a trailer, of that there can be no question. Compare the reaction fans had to the trailers for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the first trailer for Captain America: Civil War. The former elicited a laundry list of questions and concerns while the latter just made fans say “Wow…”

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So what went wrong with the first trailer for Doctor Strange?

I may be in the minority here (and I know I probably am) but the trailer, which everyone has been anticipating for months now and made its debut during Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night, just didn’t impress me. In fact, I thought it was a bit underwhelming and honestly, a huge letdown.

If you haven’t watched it yet, see for yourself:

Now, is it just me, or was that, dare I say, just a bit boring?

Oh sure, there are parts that are just as awesome as everyone thought they would be. Benedict Cumberbatch’s American accent is perfect and the film doesn’t look like anything else Marvel has produced to date. And the money shot at the end with Strange in his Sanctum Sanctorum and the Cloak of Levitation was well worth the two minutes of my time.

It’s just that nothing else in the trailer made me in any way excited about the movie. It’s just a hyper-condensed version of the character’s origin when you come right down to it, which me and every other comic book fan knows already by heart.

Where is Doctor Strange in action? When will I see him shooting spells at Baron Mordo? Where is him flying in the air? Using the Eye of Agamotto? All the really cool stuff the character can do?

Hell, the leaked footage that surfaced while the film was recently shooting in New York did more to get me worked up to see Doctor Strange than the trailer did.

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So should I be worried? Could Marvel have a problem here?

I highly doubt it. While the first trailer may have left me cold, I’m relatively sure everyone else loved it and that the second trailer will probably be right up my alley.

Of course, even if I hate that trailer too I’m still going to see Doctor Strange. I mean, I may be finicky about my trailers but I’m not an idiot.