The highly anticipated AntMan and The Wasp: Quantumania has arrived and has revived a low reception from critics but a more positive reaction from fans. Here i am going to discuss what I though about the film overall.
Kevin Feige promised that this film would start to bring the overall story of the new saga into focus and it did just that. In this film we get introduced to Kang, who is set to be the big bad through this saga. We first saw a version of him in Loki season 1 where he warmed that there were a lot of versions of him that wanted to destroy the multiverse. Jonathon Majors does an absolutely fantastic job at showing why Kang is such a threat to the MCU. His performance is one of the best seen in the MCU yet, he brings a lot of gravitas to the role and instead of making him silly makes him very menacing and sting minded. Kang is by far the best part of this film and I’m very excited to see a lot more of him in the future.
Another character that made a really strong impact this film was Janet played by the one and Michelle Pfieiffer. Her scenes in this movie are absolutely phenomenal I was completely hooked to the screen and it made me wish we had scene more of her in action as the wasp because her actions scenes are all great as well.
Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily both do great jobs here, but both do get overshadowed by others in the cast. One thing that hurts Paul Rudd here in particular is that as they made this a much more serious film he doesn’t get to shine where he does best and that’s in the comedic side of things. Also as much as I love Kathryn Newton and what she did with the role of Cassie here I do feel that she took screen time away from The Wasp as it felt she was the female lead here instead of her.
However one thing this film succeeds very well in is that it does great World building for the MCU. This film shows that even 31 films in there is still a lot unknown about the universe. This is as it showed a whole Universe and ecosystem down in the quantum realm and it was interesting to see how Kang had turned it into his own kingdom.
Moving into the VFX of this film. A lot of the environments are brought to life quite well and a lot of the time the environment of the quantum realm feel real. However the big VFX issue in the film came with MODOK. I feel for the VFX team because I don’t know how you bring that character to live action but they defiantly didn’t master that with this film. His face always looked just off and it was like you were looking at some wired unfinished VFX work.
My biggest problems with the film get at the end of the film. My first problem was that it felt like with this AntMan film they wanted to go in a bit more of a series direction then the previous films. They did succeed this through most if this by having Kang here. However having Kang being drafted by an army of ants just felt a bit too much over the top for me and just didn’t gel with the rest of the film. I also think the film would of had more impact if both Scott and Hope were stranded in the quantum realm at the end. This would of added some much needed consequences to this film as it would of shown them sacrificing themselves to stop a Kang.
Overall, AntMan and The Wasp: Quantumania is nowhere near as bad as critics are making it out to be. It’s a fun and important step forward in the MCU, so even though the story isn’t the strongest I would give this one a watch.
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