Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania is the 31st Marvel Studios film and the first to kick off Phase 5 of the MCU and this time Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), his daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) and the Van Dyne’s Hope (Evangeline Lilley), Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Dr Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) find themselves trapped in the Quantum Realm after an experiment goes wrong but while there they meet the Conqueror known as Kang (Jonathan Majors) who rules this Realm and is keen to get out and conquer the multiverse.
Quantumania is an interesting film in that when I saw it and came right out of it I enjoyed it enough but the more it has sat with me I have just wanted to forget all about it and I don’t think it is even that bad of a film.
But why is that well I will go into that but I want to talk about the positives first:
- The first of those is Jonathan Majors as Kang, he was sort of introduced in the end of the Loki series on Disney Plus but here he gets his proper introduction as the new big bad going forward and he makes a very memorable impression here, he’s soft when he needs to be and he shows off how powerful he can be when he gets to and those fight scenes are particularly good and the hints at him fighting the other Avengers across time had me very intrigued about those battles.
- And secondly the other cast are good as well, Paul Rudd is as charming and likeable as ever as Antman/Scott Lang and his bond with the now grown up Cassie still remains the heart of the film and this specific sub series of films in the MCU and its good to see, Lilley and Douglas are good but they don’t get as much to do while Pfeiffer gets a lot more to do here and it shows because she has some great moments here.
And yet this movie as a whole is forgettable and that comes down to firstly the visual look of this film, so much of it is spent in the Quantum Realm and it hurt my eyes to look at it after a while as it all kinda looked a bit fake and artificial as if it was all shot in the Volume like a lot of other Disney films and shows are nowadays and I’m getting really sick of it especially after how good Avatar: The Way of Water looked back in December.
And lastly the storytelling here is not great, its not horrible but so much of it feels very weird and not in a good way, at times your watching this almost knock off of Strange World other times it feels like Dune and other times it feels like its trying to shoe horn in the traditional Marvel comedy and it is now bad comedy because it just undercuts the scenes way too much now and again after the Way of Water played everything pretty much straight I’m really fed up with the constant quips and comedy in so many of these big films.
And so that was Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania and its fine but you won’t have much desire to watch it again after seeing it and it only confirms evermore that the MCU really should have ended with Avengers: Endgame because everything since just hasn’t been any good but when your holding up your home studio endings are to be ignored, 2 out of 5.
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