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ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA
Starring Paul Rudd (Scott Lang / Ant-Man), Evangeline Lilly (Hope Van Dyne / The Wasp), Kathryn Newton (Cassie Lang), Jonathan Majors (Kang), Michelle Pfeiffer (Janet Van Dyne), Michael Douglas (Hank Pym), Corey Stoll (M.O.D.O.K.), David Dastmalchian (the Voice of Veb), Katy O’Brian (Jentorra), William Jackson Harper (Quaz), and Bill Murray (Lord Krylar).
Directed by Peyton Reed
Produced by Kevin Feige and Stephen Broussard
Written by Jeff Loveness
Music by Chrisophe Beck
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Run Time: 2 hours and 4 minutes
World Premier: February 6, 2023 (Los Angeles, California)
Opening Weekend Box Office: $41 million in North America
Worldwide Box Office: $474 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 48%
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Fun Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Facts
The title of Marvel Studios’ third Ant-Man film was announced as Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania on December 10, 2020, during Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios presentation during Disney’s “Investor’s Day.” Feige confirmed the returns of Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, and Peyton Reed and furthermore announced the additions of Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang (replacing Emma Fuhrmann, who portrayed Lang in Avengers: Endgame) and Jonathan Majors as Kang.
On July 23, 2022, at San Diego Comic Con, Marvel CCO Kevin Feige announced that the next Avengers film from Marvel Studios would be titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and would be released on May 2, 2025. Destin Daniel Cretton (who previously directed Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings for Marvel Studios) was hired to direct the film, which would star Jonathan Majors presumably as several Variants of Kang the Conqueror. Also at SDCC, Kevin Feige officially labeled the current three Phases of MCU films beginning with Phase 4 and concluding with Phase 6 as The Multiverse Saga.
In the Marvel Comics, Kang the Conqueror is a time-traveling antagonist of The Fantastic Four and The Avengers and is a descendant of Mister Fantastic / Reed Richards from the 31st Century named Nathaniel Richards. Kang in known by many names in the comics and boasts a multitude of Variants, the most noteworthy of which are Pharaoh Rama-Tut (who ruled ancient Egypt), Scarlet Centurian, and Immortus (whom the Loki series’ He Who Remains is loosely based on), in addition to Iron Lad (a member of The Young Avengers), and Victor Timely (an industrialist and inventor who wields future technology in the past and is further explored in Loki: Season Two). There is also a Prime Kang in the Marvel Comics that wages war against the other Kang’s, some of which are essentially the same person (Iron Lad becomes Kang the Conqueror for instance and Kang the Conqueror becomes Rama-Tut … time travel!) and others who are alternate versions from Alternate Timelines and Universes. There is also a Council of Kang’s in the comics that was founded by Kang Prime.
In the Season Finale of Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Loki: Season One (titled For All Time. Always), Jonathan Majors made his MCU debut as He Who Remains … a Variant of the Kang character that he would portray in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. In Loki: Season One, He Who Remains was revealed as the architect of the Sacred Timeline (a controlled Flow of Time that was policed by the Time Variance Authority and ruled over by He Who Remains). At the end of the First Season of the Loki series, the Loki Variant known as Sylvie slayed He Who Remains, leading to a chain reaction of events in Season Two that ultimately saw Loki Variant L1130 obliterate the Temporal Loom and weave together the many Timelines that had Branched off from Sacred Timeline following the death of He Who Remains, refashioning the 616-Multiverse into the mold of the World Tree: Yggdrasil, consequently leaving the 616-Multiverse exposed to the threats that He Who Remains warned of prior to His death. With Loki taking his seat as the God of the 616-Multiverse, the TVA cease the pruning of Branched Timelines and instead begin monitoring the Variants of He Who Remains, doing whatever they can to prevent another Multiversal War, which He Who Remains insisted would be inevitable if His meticulous system was broken.
Marketing for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania seemed to suggest that the version of Kang viewers would see in the film was Kang Prime, but the character’s fate in the film seems to suggest otherwise. This version of Kang was banished to the Quantum Realm by his other Variants after waging war against them during the previous Multiversal War, making him a rather unique remnant of that war.
In Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, we are introduced to countless Variants of Kang during a mid-credits sequence, including Rama-Tut, what appears to be a version loosely based on Scarlet Centurian, and Immortus as we see them viewing the Multiversal mess that resulted following the death of He Who Remains. From there, we get a sneak peek at the Kang Dynasty / the Council of Kangs … an assembly of every Kang from every Universe throughout the Multiverse. This scene was adapted directly from a famous comic book panel that appeared in Avengers #267 by Roger Stern and John Buscema. This sequence appears to occur chronologically before Loki’s ascension to godhood in Loki: Season Two, given the visual state of the 616-Multiverse when the three Kang Variants look upon it.
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania serves as the MCU introduction of M.O.D.O.K. The name in the comics is an acronym that stands for Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing. In the comics, M.O.D.O.K. is traditionally a former A.I.M. Employee named George Tarleton. He underwent an experiment that was designed to increase his intelligence. The experiment was a success, but he was left with an enormous head and a stunted body and was relegated to a mobile chair for movement. From there, a weaponized M.O.D.O.K. kills his creators and takes over A.I.M., emerging as a sort of ultimate killing machine. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, M.O.D.O.K. is Darren Cross, portrayed once again by Corey Stoll. At the end of the first Ant-Man film, Cross was presumed dead after fighting Scott Lang in Cassie Lang’s bedroom. Scott caused Cross’s body to implode and unbeknownst to Scott, Cross ventured into the Quantum Realm where he was discovered by Kang, nursed back to health and transformed into M.O.D.O.K. with his massive head and tiny body being the results of the method that Scott used to vanquish him.
In its first week of release, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania became only the second MCU movie to be certified as rotten by Rotten Tomatoes. The film boasts a 46% Approval Rating which puts it under Eternals (47%) for the dubious honor of being Marvel Studios’ worst score of all-time for an MCU film.
On September 5, 2023, Scott Lang’s book Look Out for the Little Guy (as seen in this film) was released, providing MCU fans with a detailed glimpse into the life of Scott Lang / Ant-Man and revealing new details about life in the MCU during the events of Avengers: Endgame and beyond.
Mere weeks after the release of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, Jonathan Majors was arrested for assault that pertained to a domestic violence case. Majors was convicted near the end of the year and was promptly fired by Marvel Studios following the conviction. Since that time, the upcoming film Avengers: The Kang Dynasty has dropped the Kang Dynasty part of the title and is now being referred to by Marvel Studios as simply Avengers 5.
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My Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania Review
My viewing experience for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania was one of those deals where I was sitting in the theater watching this film in 3D and in disbelief of what I was actually seeing. Is that a good or a bad thing for Marvel Studios? Well, that depends. Beauty is after all, in the eye of the beholder.
I thought the visuals and special effects in Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania were out of this world! Aesthetically, this film was stunning to look at. The Quantum Realm was revealed to be a fully fleshed-out world that existed beneath the 616-Universe (referred to as a “616-Adjacent Realm” by Owen Wilson’s Mobius in Loki: Season Two) with a society and culture and plenty of its own problems. It might as well have been an alien planet with all of the different creatures and entities and architecture and technologies! Marvel Studios gave us glimpses of some fascinating alternate Universes in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness last year, and we’d seen glimpses of the Quantum Realm in films such as Ant-Man, Ant-Man and The Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame, but in Quantumania, the Quantum Realm is fully explored in great detail. In fact, I’d say about 95% of this movie takes place within the Quantum Realm! Marvel Studios went all in.
If you’ve seen the trailers, you pretty much know the whole gist of how this story starts, and I will say that this was for me, another case of Marvel Studios dropping the ball with the marketing of a film. The trailers showed too much. Again. I went into this believing that we were in for some big surprises, but no, we see Ant-Man vs Kang’s final battle in the trailers, and we see most of the key moments from the Probability Storm in the trailers and we see M.O.D.O.K. In the trailers, and of course, we see lots (too much) of Kang in the trailers. It’s pretty easy to piece the plot of this film together just by watching the trailers. There weren’t really any notable surprises or twists to speak of until the credits rolled.
Anyway, in the year 2026, Scott is enjoying life as a superhero celebrity, but he’s juggling the frustration of having missed so much of his daughter Cassie’s life. He spent two years of her childhood in jail of course, and then missed five more years because of Thanos. Cassie grew up during that time, and she has her own ideas and ambitions that Scott isn’t entirely comfortable with. A lot of that involves following in his footsteps, be that in getting locked up by the police or using Hank Pym’s shrinking technology. Cassie wants to be a superhero, like her dad, and we learn early in the film that she is a brilliant young woman that spent the five years during which her dad, Hank, Hope, and Janet were gone, studying the Quantum Realm and all of Hank’s research journals. This culminated in her inventing a machine that could enable Quantum exploration! After the Blip, Hank and Hope both encouraged Cassie in her ambition behind the backs of Scott and Janet. Scott was wrapped up in his celebrity status after all, and Janet was frustratingly tight-lipped on her Quantum experiences. All of this comes to a head when Cassie activates her machine, provoking Janet into a panic. Then, all five of them are sucked into the Quantum Realm.
There, Hank and Hope and Scott and Cassie learn just how much Janet Van Dyne didn’t tell them about the Realm, and the biggest secrets involve Kang the Conqueror. He was exiled to the Quantum Realm and crash-landed where he was nursed back to health by Janet. They developed a close friendship and a mutual respect and Janet helped Kang repair his crashed ship, which is fueled by remarkably advanced technology that allows him to operate the ship through his thoughts. The ship can also take Kang to any PLACE and TIME within the Multiverse, seemingly without the creation of Branched Timelines wherever he lands. Kang seems intelligent, kind, and understanding and Janet has only known him as a soft-spoken and patient person up until the point his ship is repaired. She then comes into physical contact with the ship and is able to see into Kang’s mind and she learns that he has a lot of blood on his hands. This entity has wiped entire Multiversal Timelines out of existence! He has murdered trillions! Janet sees Kang as a merciless Warlord. Kang simply sees himself as a necessary Conqueror. Still, Kang offers to take Janet home to her daughter and husband and vows to spare her Universe due to the kindness that she had shown him. Janet cannot allow Kang to leave the Quantum Realm however, as she is fully aware of what he is capable of. So, using Pym Particles, she destroys the Multiversal Core that power his Time Sphere and leaves Kang stranded.
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Janet has now made an enemy of Kang and she makes efforts to flee his wrath, but while entrapping Kang within the Quantum Realm may have been beneficial to the Multiverse as a whole (or, maybe it wasn’t), it certainly was not beneficial to the Quantum Realm, or more specifically, its inhabitants. Kang decided to establish rule over the Realm. If he was to dwell there, he would conquer it and rule it, and rule it he did. Wielding his immaculate technologies and tremendous power, Kang would go on to oppress the people of the Quantum Realm and develop a massive city and a robotic army. Oppositions arose and Janet joined the Resistance that fought against Kang, but Kang conquered the Quantum Realm nonetheless, and millions were killed and those who survived fell under his oppressive rule. Then, Janet escaped.
Hank pulled her out of the Quantum Realm and returned her home. For her, it was over … until Cassie caused them to go back. Cassie’s machine sent a signal back into the Quantum Realm that was detected by M.O.D.O.K. and it was he (Darren Cross) who brought Cassie, Scott, Hank, Hope, and Janet into the Realm. Kang of course wants Janet because he knows she has access to the technology that can fix his machine … Pym Particles.
Of course, everyone else that was forcefully brought into the Quantum Realm by M.O.D.O.K. does too and before reuniting with Janet, Kang actually captures Scott and Cassie.
This scene between Scott and Kang and Cassie is amazing with Kang casually bragging about all of the Avengers that he’s killed and threatening to kill Cassie if Scott doesn’t agree to work with him, and what Kang needs Scott for is pretty perfect, for it’s essentially a heist. And that’s what Scott Lang does best!
Scott begrudgingly agrees to help Kang and, on the mission, he reunites with Hope and reconsiders giving Kang the device that Kang wants back. This leads to war of course, and the Resistance rises, and a bunch of giant intelligent ants join the battle, and Scott does all he can to fight Kang the Conqueror. There is some really great stuff between him and Cassie here as Scott proudly acknowledges the hero that Cassie has become and, in the end, a portal is successfully opened through which Cassie, Hank, Janet, and Hope travel back home. Scott is forced to stay behind however in an effort to keep Kang from going through the portal. Scott fights Kang one-on-one and the fight is pretty great; just a lot of Jonathan Majors beating the shit out of Paul Rudd basically, but Hope soon returns to give Scott an assist and they manage to stop Kang by overloading the drive of the Multiversal Core. Kang is then vaporized and presumed dead.
The people of the Quantum Realm have been liberated, and Cassie uses her machine to find Scott and Hope and bring them back home. Scott returns to his home Universe with new and exciting stories to tell, but he can’t shake the feeling that something bad is coming.
A mid-credits scene then introduces us to the Dynasty / Council of Kang’s, and they seem to discuss the death of the Quantum Conqueror that they’d previously banished and the troublesome fact that he’d been dispatched of by members of the 616-Universe’s Avengers. While looking out over the Multiverse, they suggest that a war is coming and that The Avengers must be dealt with for the good of the Multiverse and to keep their (apparently nefarious) plans in order. To wage this war, they have summoned every Kang from every Universe!
A post-credits scene then airs that introduces us to Victor Timely, who is in the early-1900’s delivering a speech on time to a crowd of curious listeners. In that crowd is the Loki Variant that escaped Avengers custody with the Tesseract during the Time Heist and TVA Agent Mobius, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson respectively! This is a scene straight out of Loki: Season Two, which would revolve around the Loki Variant’s ascension to godhood as the guardian of a Sacred Timeline that is no longer constrained.
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I enjoyed Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania but I do have some concerns pertaining to this film’s potential success, and after watching it, I completely understood why the film was being as poorly received as it was, critically speaking. The bottom line is, it’s a WEIRD movie. It’s very high concept in terms of the rules of the Multiverse and the way that Time Travel works in the MCU and at the time of its release, none of that had been clearly laid out in an easy-to-follow way by Marvel Studios, and it wasn’t laid out in an easy-to-follow way here either. A lot of this was cleared up in Loki: Season Two, but that came out about six-months after this film. Even still, if you have questions going into this movie, you’re going to have questions coming out of it, and while I appreciate mystery and unpredictability, I think the refusal on the part of Marvel Studios to establish some concrete rules throughout Phases Four and Five have hindered the overall narrative of The Multiverse Saga. We as viewers don’t have to know exactly where we are going, but it would be nice to understand why we’re going there, and even after Loki: Season Two, we are left with juggling theories as opposed to having concrete evidence in terms of how all of this stuff works.
Obviously, the objective of our heroes is going to be to stop Kang. I get that part of it, but the machinations of who Kang is and why he is who he is still have not been fleshed out in an understandable way. It’s obvious that He Who Remains saw Himself as the hero of his own story in Loki; a necessary evil yes, but a savior nonetheless, and in Quantumania, the Quantum Kang saw himself as the hero of his own story too. He was a revolutionary that was willing to commit necessary evils for the greater good. He implies that he waged war against his Variants for the good of the Multiverse, because they were creating all of these New Realities through their time traveling and he knew that this would result in Incursions (those horrible things we were introduced to in Multiverse of Madness when two Universes collide, resulting in the annihilation of one or both). The Kang Dynasty couldn’t beat this impassioned Variant, so they banished him to the Quantum Realm. More on this Variant in a bit.
For now, the Council of Kang’s has been set up as the apparent new imminent Big Bad and The Avengers will have to come back together and oppose them. I suppose The Kang Dynasty will follow the Infinity War blueprint of telling us a story through the eyes of the villain (or villains), which may mean that we aren’t going to get any real answers or understanding to how all of this Time Travel and Multiverse stuff really works until then, and I don’t know if general audiences are going to be that patient. So far, as a viewer, I have no idea what the Council of Kings even want. What is their goal? What is their motive? What do they hope to accomplish? I don’t even have a decent theory about that other than that I figure it has something to do with a Multiversal War. That’s pretty frustrating.
Beyond the overarching MCU narrative itself though, the weirdness of Quantumania and the overall weirdness of Phase 4 and now Phase 5 may be another problem for Marvel Studios. Time Travel and the Multiverse are exciting, but divisive concepts on their own, and the Marvel Studios team have thrown a lot of crazy and off-the-wall concepts at viewers in recent years, and I think it’s proving to be a turnoff (as evident by the poor box office performance of this film). Sure, you have the people that hate on all of the Girl Power and the racial diversity and gay characters and all of that, but every franchise that has incorporated those types of things have faced that adversity to a degree. It’s not new and it’s nothing that the MCU can’t survive. What is a more pressing problem I believe, is the sheer absurdity of everything that we’ve seen since the end of The Infinity Saga.
When people saw Iron Man in 2008, most of them were able to walk out of that movie thinking yeah, if someone had enough money and the right technology, that could happen. Iron Man was very grounded and most of Phase One stayed that way as best it could. It seemed that with everything that we saw, the Studio and the filmmakers tried to explain it to us in a way that made logical sense. Since then, things have gotten weirder with each Phase, to the point in Phase Four where you have asshole gods and witches and werewolves and vampires and demons and monster hunters and Multiversal Variants (including animals) and Cloud Monsters and Deviants … and yes, M.O.D.O.K.
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As a comic book reader and a Marvel fan, I thought seeing M.O.D.O.K. on screen and in live action was sort of cool, but M.O.D.O.K. is a weird concept and he looks goofy. Look, I thought making Darren Cross become M.O.D.O.K. was a brilliant creative decision and I could tell Corey Stoll had a lot of fun with the role, but M.O.D.O.K. looks ridiculous in the comics and he looked ridiculous in the movie and my wife was sitting there in the theater going, “What the hell is this?”, and I’m sure there were many audience members that had that same feeling. When M.O.D.O.K. was revealed in the film, several members of the audience around me cackled because he looked undeniably silly. Comic book readers and diehard fans may live for a lot of this stuff, but the MCU audience extends far beyond us, and I think M.O.D.O.K. turned a lot of people off, just like a lot of other things have during The Multiverse Saga.
Me saying that probably raises an obvious question from you .., what do I care? If I loved Thor: Love and Thunder and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness a lot more than most people did (and I did), and if I got a kick out of M.O.D.O.K., why am I complaining? Why don’t I just shut up and like what I like and be happy?
Well, the simple answer to that is … money. The MCU is my favorite hobby. I love it. I look forward to the release of each and every MCU project. I revisit previous films and shows often. I love these characters. I love these stories. Obviously, or else this site wouldn’t exist. At the end of the day, it’s merely a reflection of my love for this amazing Shared World!
Because I love the MCU so much, I want it to keep going! I want more shows and more movies, and I want to see the stories and characters continue to evolve, but in order for that to happen, these movies need to make money and these shows need to generate Disney+ subscribers. Every negative review works against that. A low Rotten Tomatoes score can drive potential viewers away just like poor word of mouth can after opening weekend and that can lead to box office bombs and box office bombs are bad for business.
The MCU hasn’t seen much in the way of outright bombs, but critic scores have been consistently dropping, along with the general overall perception of the MCU as a franchise. Some are saying that the MCU has lost its magic and the recent delays and scaling back of projects are proof that Disney is hearing and paying attention to the negative. And sadly, the negative tends to make a lot more noise than the positive.
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is already out and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume Three and The Marvels are in the bag, but if Quantumania continues to trend down as the MCU’s worst reviewed movie and ultimately disappoints financially, I think we could see a significant tonal shift come 2024.
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Now, on to the positives.
JONATHAN MAJORS.
He was incredible in this film.
His performance was fueled by so much conviction and raw emotion! He was everything that the movie needed him to be whenever the movie needed it. The rage in his eyes, the calm and articulate way with which he spoke, the physical prowess he displayed and the aggression with which he fought; he was menacing; he was intriguing; he was, as Loki has described him, terrifying! Every single time that Kang was on the screen, I was engaged, just as I was with He who Remains in Loki: Season One, but make no mistake, Majors delivered a very different performance here than he did in Loki: Season One. He wasn’t whimsical or off-kilter … he was stern and confident and even desperate. This was one of the greatest antagonistic performances in MCU history. I loved everything about it and best of all (unlike his Variants), I clearly understood Kang’s motives and why he wanted what he wanted. That was a plus.
I do HATE that Kang was (seemingly) killed-off here. I went into this movie pretty sure that this version of Kang was going to be the overarching Big Bad of The Infinity Saga and that Quantumania would serve as his origin story. I was positive that the movie would end with his escape and that the ominous statue that we saw at the end of the Loki: Season One was his statue (turns out, it wasn’t). Obviously, if he’s dead, all of that is off the table and the Council of Kang’s did in fact declare him as being dead (assuming it was him that they were actually talking about and not He Who Remains), so that does seem to be the case, and if that is the case, I think it sucks, because everything about this interpretation of the character felt perfect and had me wanting to see MORE and if Quantum Kang is indeed dead, that hurts my overall reception of this film because I felt like it should have ended with his victory.
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Other things that I liked about Quantumania included Paul Rudd’s performance as Scott Lang. He is that character at this point, and it’s a blast just watching him do his thing. I really liked Kathryn Newton as Cassie. She had tremendous chemistry with Paul Rudd, and I loved the dynamic of their father / daughter relationship and how they overcame all of the complications to both be truly proud of each other at the end of the film. This went back to Cassie’s heroic ambitions that we saw in Ant-Man and The Wasp and the whole narrative of Scott simply needing only to be the hero that Cassie already thought that he was in the first film. Everything with Scott and Cassie was great!
I really liked both Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas in this film too! I wasn’t surprised to enjoy Michelle’s performance, but if you read my writing regularly, you know I’m not a Hank Pym fan and I haven’t found much at all to really like about Michael Douglas in the role in any of the previous film, but lo and behold, he was pretty likable in this movie! The giant, technologically advanced socialist ant’s thing? Really weird. But Douglas had some in this film, he had some charm in this film, and he had some humility and warmth in this film as well. He was so proud of Cassie, and he even read Scott’s book! So, good on the Marvel Studios team and kudos to Michael Douglas for turning Hank Pym around. I was actually hoping he would die in this movie, and now, I’m glad that he didn’t.
I thought Bill Murray was wonderful too! He was flamboyant and over-the-top and sleazy and disgusting in a really fun way. I would have loved to have seen more of him, but his (presumed) death and the karma that surrounded it was also one of my favorite moments! Still, maybe there is a Universe somewhere out there where The Collector, The Grandmaster, and Lord Krylar are hanging out together talking about life. I’d love to see that!
Maybe my favorite character outside of Kang in this film was Veb! I don’t know how to possibly describe this guy, but he was one of the more wonderfully weird characters that this film boasted. Can you believe he was voiced by David Dastmalchian (who portrayed Kurt in the previous Ant-Man films)? Veb was obsessed with holes, and he was hilarious and lovable and … I want one. I really loved the fake out scene of his death too. So fun!
In closing, I have to once again go back to praising the visuals. You could watch this film on mute, and it would be fascinating! So many colors and shapes and creatures and costumes and structures!
Some of my other non-likes: Evangeline Lilly felt like she was sort of … just there, I thought the Kang’s in the audience during the Dynasty of Kang’s reveal acted too goofy and I wasn’t crazy about the voice of Immortus, and I’m not sure that Darren Cross needed a redemption arc, but the whole “don’t be a dick thing” was pretty funny, so maybe it was worth it.
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania wasn’t the hit that Marvel Studios hoped it would be, but I can see the team behind it finding a lot to be proud of. Despite its flaws, I found a lot to appreciate about it.
UPDATE … The arrest and eventual conviction of Jonathan Majors for assault has obviously cast a large shadow over this movie, as well as over the entire Multiverse Saga. I did a lot of praising Jonathan Majors for his talent as an actor in this review but let me be clear: I do not condone violence against women, and I have zero respect for anyone that commits the types of crimes that Jonathan Majors has been accused of committing.
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Highlights of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania:
Jonathan Majors as Kang
Paul Rudd is Scott Lang / Ant-Man
Kathryn Newton as Cassie Lang
Chemistry between Paul Rudd and Kathryn Newton
Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne
Michael Douglas as Hank Pym
Costumes, Special Effects, and Cinematography
Bill Murray as Lord Krylar
Veb
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Notable MCU Concepts and Characters Introduced:
Kang the Conqueror (Quantum Realm version). M.O.D.O.K. (the new physical form of Darren Cross). Cassie Lang at long last suited up as a superhero. The Council of Kang’s (including Pharaoh Rama-Tut and Immortus via the mid-credits scene). Victor Timely (via the post-credits scene from Loki: Season Two).
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