Movie Review: ‘AntMan And The Wasp: Quantumania: Theyre Just Trying To Get Home. You May Feel The Same
"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" kicks off Chapter 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and those levels are starting to look like pandemic variants.
The stories in each chapter of the MCU are defined by leaders grappling with misdirection, ignorance, and then a non-existent new normal (is it all pandemic-style?) . Given the reported $200 million production budget and universe-shattering threat level, it's disappointing to see the MCU's most feared franchise thrive as an icon.
Ant-Man (2015) was fun; Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) was also very interesting. Again, directed by Peyton Reed, "Quantumania" is less exciting and more visually simple . The inside jokes and wild celebration of welcome hatred of the previous films are reinforced by the game's endless storylines and incredible digital world-building in the Quantum Realm.
Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang / Ant-Man, with Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne / The Wasp. The second act shows action and dialogue, but Lily is silent in Quantummania, left to wait for an explanation. a curse? Finally, do we have a personal grudge? Do you support an executive position on Covid-19 vaccine mandates? Aside from the occasional tagline ("I read that in Scott!"), Hope is something on the side.
This time the storyline sends Scott, the intelligent and well-adjusted parents of Hope (Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas) and Scott's honest and adventurous daughter Cassie (Katherine Newton) to the Quantumville sub-universe. Aside from the book's San Francisco-set sequences, Quantummania takes place entirely in HR Pufnstuf's heated tub of Pandora-like ruins from the famed magical visual wonderland. . "
Q: How do you get home? Clash: Why is Kang the Conqueror, played by Jonathan Majors, trying to kill us and destroy the world? Well, he's a super-villain, and we've seen him that way before (in the related Disney Loki series). Majors is a great actor, so we will see him again.
It usually is. As with any actor, it comes down to the material, and here Majors is spinning his wheels to make this star his own and unlike anyone else's. An on-screen intellectual, Majors made a rare blunder in 'Quantumania', a dramatic strategist and a dramatic exchange… pause. After an hour, many of the smaller MCU films appear to have stopped at a green screen for both the screen and the audience.
Director Reed is still familiar with Ant-Man's obligatory battlefield script and the company's ability to change size in the blink of an eye, from the size of an ant to an "iron giant." The movie isn't terrible, let's say, but the kinetic battles are a disaster and the look of Quantum Realm captures the interplay of digital elements and visual effects beautifully, and looks a lot like early drafts at times. Instead, it is a natural extension of the new "Star Wars" series. In between, when everyone on the screen repeated their wish to go home, I thought: same!
However, all is not lost. "Quantumania" stars Gentora , the screen worthy, crazed and fearsome leader of the revolution , played by Cathy O'Brien. It is a very friendly beast that is ready for anything. Even if it's not much of a movie.
