Pretty sure, yeah.
Interesting. Myself, I thought he was a victim of ‘power slide’. In the comics, Wanda is curbstomping the Avengers when he shows up and basically smacks her across the nose, like she’s a bad dog…granted, the comics Eye of Agamotto goes a long ways in putting down ‘heroes who have gone crazy’.
In the film, its plain he and Wong are not anywhere near her league.
Preaumably the Darkhold is a big power boost
In the What If? (comics version) where Korvac kills all of the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy in their grand slugfest and starts a conquest of the universe, the first thing he does after that slaughter is banish those Earth heroes he deems an immediate potential threat to an empty limbo. Specifically Doctor Strange, Silver Surfer and Jean Grey as Phoenix.
Like all comic book heroes his powers scale up and down as convenient to the plot and he has a variety of human weaknesses (mostly that he is ultimately a conventionally frail human male) and limitations. But generally speaking I agree that very generally peak comic-book Doctor Strange is rather more powerful than MCU Doctor Strange.
I want to see the 1984 Secret Wars—complete with The Beyonder with a white leisure suit and curly perm. (Who should play him?)
…Henry Cavill?
Inspired.
But I believe he took on the appearance of Captain America…with a perm…Compassionate Chris Evans is a wonder as Captain America. Silly Chris Evans is…well…I can still see him wearing a banana split on his ass from Not Another Teen Movie.
He didn’t look like that until Secret Wars II. As is well-known, no human being can read Secret Wars II and hope to survive.
One should not say such things, even in jest.
David Hasseloff!
The ghost of Hervé Villechaize
Well, I finally watched this last night and thought it was…very uneven, in a variety of ways. For example, the CGI was maddeningly (ha!) inconsistent; e.g. the opening “dream” sequence/battle was cringeworthy - just incredibly fake looking. But the Wanda in the mirror maze sequence was stellar. Other CGI sections were similarly uneven, I thought. Different fx studios, maybe? And the falling through the multi-verse sequence was like - yawn - been there, done that.
The best part for me was Olsen as a kind of magic Terminator. The scenes with her doggedly chasing our heroes covered in robot “blood” were genuinely amazing. Raimi at the top of his game.
I thought the actress playing America Chavez was decent enough, but as others have said, she was all MacGuffin, no character. Shame. And they way they styled her and her powers - which I assume was slavish devotion to the comics - was ludicrous: her name is America, she wears a jean jacket with stars on it, and punches star-shaped portals in the multi-verse? Awful. And really clashed with the mystic/magic powers of Strange/Wanda. Like bubble-gum dropped into a delicious french onion soup.
A lot of the humor in this one felt forced to me as well. Like “we need a joke here; write one.”
They tried to develop Strange’s character and I think were basically successful, though some of that did tend to get lost in the effects and fast-moving plot.
Overall, I was mildly entertained, but by the end both my wife and I were making comments MST3K-style, which is never a good sign for suspension of disbelief/enjoyment. On the other hand, I had heard it was pretty terrible, so my expectations were very low and it surpassed them 
America portrayed in the movie is a billion times more likable then her own comic-book counterpart (In her own series)
“What the Holy mensturation…” and “What in the flipping tamales??”
One thing I’ve been thinking about: When Strange and America first end up in another world, it’s one where you go on red, buildings are fantastically colored with flowers, and everyone wears monochrome outfits and hats. As near as I can tell, this is Earth 838, the one with the Illuminati and all that.
As soon as Strange and America are taken in by said illuminati, all that alternate-reality weirdness vanishes. 838-Christine Palmer’s outfit is fairly monochrome and weird but she wears no hat, and none of the Illuminati members nor 838 Wanda and her kids wear hats or have monochrome clothes. They look like what you’d expect them to look like in any other MCU movie.
From a story standpoint I understand why they did this, continuing to make everything weird would detract from the exciting action of murdering a bunch of big name (counterpart) superheroes. I still found it jarring that the movie set up this strange alternate world then immediately dropped it the instant it could, especially considering Strange and America’s walk, and the dimension-hopping sequence that came before, amount for 80% of the multiverse weirdness in a movie called “multiverse of madness”