Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Ok let’s begin by saying how much this actually pains me to write. Of all of the Marvel films Ant-Man is one that I have been fond of…until now. Quantumania is one of the worst Marvel films to date, which doesn’t say much since anything after Endgame has been, well, subpar.
Now back to Ant-Man and The Wasp; Paul Rudd and crew just get lost in the abyss that is this film. Director Peyton Reed fails to live up to what the first two films lived up to. The breezy, and snappy comical breaks that differentiated the Ant-Man films from the rest of the MCU films is nowhere in Quantumania. No amount of CGI, (trust me there’s a lot), could save this lackluster script. It fails to take full advantage of Rudd’s natural talent and instead wastes it on one liner puns that not even the rest of the cast could save.
Not all is negative however, Jonathan Major as Kang the Conqueror is a highlight of the film and I am looking forward to seeing more of that. Bill Murray as Lord Krylar and the return of Corey Stoll as M.O.D.O.K was a definite highlight.
Although I am not against CGI, Quantumania took to it to a whole new level as I’m pretty sure this was all filmed in a warehouse somewhere. Although some of the designs of the quantum realm were good, in the end it came across as a cheap Star Wars wannabe with Mario Kart characters. By the end of the film I walked out of the theater hoping that the film itself would be stuck in the quantum realm and forgotten.
6/10
(Main photo courtesy of Marvel Studios)
