Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Review – “Ant-Man,” released eight years ago, was a comic-book movie that almost inadvertently used its hyper-miniaturized cowboy-on-anti-back superhero as a metaphor for the film in the MCU and a small space had occupied Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) was a bit underwhelming. The director, Peyton Reed, whose background was in human comedies (“Down With Love,” “Bring It On”), expanded the sequel into a large-scale dumpling fantasy, with characters and objects shifting back and forth in size. However, the result was still more fun than important. Paul Rudd’s nice guy divorced dad turned badass metal bug Scott Lang may be an official Avenger, but that still doesn’t make him worth more than a flyweight.
Now, however, with “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” the “Ant-Man” series has become a one-of-a-kind wonder. The new film takes place almost entirely in the quantum realm, a changeable subatomic realm that exists outside of our space-time continuum. It’s essentially anything that goes into an FX playground that looks like a psychedelic album cover with a 21st-century update of “Fantastic Voyage” (lots of things that sound like Corpuscles). What it looks like is, most directly, a planet from one of the later “Star Wars” movies, with some old-school cantina vibes. (You could make the case that the George Lucas prequels represent the takeover of “Star Wars” by the cantina.)
Kang the Conqueror is a supervillain in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
“Quantumania” features science-fiction “Alice in Wonderland” forests, full of manta-ray moths and tiny tentacled suns, as well as characters like giant broccoli stalks, walking Jell-O sculptures, and glowing TV consoles. Super-ants are an army of saviors. There is, of course, an outlaw rebel alliance, as well as a cosmic genocidal megalomaniac — Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors), a supervillain who made his debut in the comics in 1963 and seems set to dominate the MCU was done in 2063.
Bill Murray, a former rebel who lived as a cuckolded George Washington, now works for Kang. Corey Stoll’s Darren, the corporate buddy of the first “Ant-Man” returns in the form of M.O.D.O.K. a huge malevolent head encased in tin-pot armor with insect hands and legs. The character is another comic stalwart, but judging by the way his scenes are staged, you can tell that Reed has mixed his sense of humor with the absurdity of Taika Waititi’s dada absurdism.
Reed, meanwhile, is out to ramp up the deadly glory of an “Avengers” epic. With a large population, all the threads of the multiverse are at stake. Yet since ” Quantumania ” claims to be a film about substance manipulation, we should probably ask: Does what’s going on in this film matter?
Yes and No ” Quantumania ” is a cutting-edge exercise in world-building, and the never-ending fantasy world (ie, ours) that J.R.R. Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons and “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter” and sandbox video games and Lego assembly kits that can assemble 10,000 pieces, it’s remarkable how axiomatic it is when people today talk about “world-building.” ” use the word. Use it, they mean it as high praise. Another world! Another fun place for us to play!
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“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” is fun, as well as bright, relentless, and mind-boggling, fun when you think you’ve had enough; It all comes together. Marvel movies have never pretended to be standalone, yet I’ve rarely encountered a Marvel adventure so preoccupied with a do-or-die-save-the-cosmos plot that felt like this. Makes it available to install now. The next dozen chapters of something. But that’s when you’re starting Phase 5 of the Marvel acquisition of movie entertainment. ” Quantumania” is not a hoax (it sucks you in, stings your eyes, scares you), but if Phase 5 looks like this, God saves us from Phases 6, 7, and 8.
Scott’s scientist daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton), now a young woman of 18, has built some sort of meta telescope in the basement. Within minutes, the device transports everyone into the quantum realm—Scott and Cassie, along with Scott’s bug-superhero partner and paramour, Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), and Hope’s parents, crusty physicists, and former S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and the original Wasp, Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), who was rescued after spending 30 years in the previous film.
It turns out she was doing more than passing the time watching Netflix. She was there when Kang first appeared as a stranded passenger – but, in fact, she had already been brought into the quantum realm to stop the path to annihilation. Janet blows up the core of Kang’s quantum device, saving the multiverse. But she is still regarded with distrust by the rebels and Kang hasn’t gone away; his designs have been shelved for now.
Living in a character like Thanos, but with no motion-capture makeup to hide behind, Jonathan Majors has you hooked on the quiet power of his intense dirtiness. This actor has a power that comes from consciousness. He is as awesome and ominous as Darth Vader played by Norman Mailer. You hang on to his every word; He generalizes the voice of revenge and carnage most effectively of the propositions. Yet no one could deny that we had been here before.
Rudd’s Scott, introduced by John Sebastian’s “Welcome Back, Kotter” theme, is introduced as a smug celebrity superhero who needs to be inspired to work. There is a terrifying scene in which he is replayed and has to face down– and finally, work with – the multitude of his self-preservation. This scene allows Rudd to be seriously depressed, which is when he’s at his best in “Quantumania”.
But when Scott, now a giant version of himself, trashes Kang’s fascist metropolis like Godzilla, all I can think is: What are the rules here? The script, previously “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” And “Rick and Morty” writer Jeff Loveness is making up the rules as he goes along, which is why “Quantumania” jolts you through its blindly zapping action without any real investment. In a way, the ultimate investment is offscreen: Will the film successfully launch Phase 5? To wonder about the answer is to remember that the only real winner in “Quantumania” is the MCU.
