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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

I know it's been a few weeks since I watched this. It should tell you a lot that I'm just now writing about it. I just didn't feel compelled to talk about it at all. This movie didn't move me in the way they were hoping for. Will I elaborate? You know I will.

Let me sum up my thoughts on this movie and the Ant-Man movies in general. Ant-Man was always the fun little side adventures that Marvel cooked up. No one asked for it, but we all believed we cared because we like Paul Rudd so much and we're just glad he's in the Marvel Universe. His previous two movies were fun heist movies and I legitimately liked Ant-Man & The Wasp. This movie, I didn't like at all. I didn't hate it, but I didn't fully enjoy it either. I was actually kind of bored with it and this movie kind of broke me.

This movie follows the Marvel Cinematic Universe playbook to a T. And that's the problem. This movie made me realize how tired I am of the Marvel Movie formula. I am tired of wise-cracking heroes. I'm tired of them being all jokey for the whole movie up until the climax when they have to get serious. I'm tired of them taking a team of people and splitting them up for asinine reasons, just so they can assemble at the end. It is hard to see team dynamics, when the team is hardly ever together. So then you tell us instead of show us.

Also, I feel like they keep trying to make fetch happen with Ant-Man. Admittedly, he shouldn't be carrying his own movie. He's not compelling enough. But they keep trying to put him at the center of all the important events and I'm tired of it. Let him be a side character in the Avengers movies or something and let that be it. We've seen enough of him to know who he is. Better yet, relegate him to a series on Disney+. That way you can tell us about his life in any way that you want.

For a movie that is so special effects heavy, they do not look great here. M.O.D.O.K. looks terrible. Every time he showed up, I'm immediately taken out of the movie. I don't care they changed his origin for this. I just care that he looks stupid. I know that is saying a lot because the comic book version is also stupid looking. Should tell you something, Marvel. All that glitters isn't gold.

Also, they say the "Quantum Realm" but the way the world is laid out, just say we're going to an alien planet and be done. I feel like they REALLY want this to be the Negative zone, but they didn't have the rights back when this movie was probably conceived.

Anyway, this movie is completely predictable. Jonathan Majors is fantastic and he is on a different level than the rest of the cast in this movie. Sure, he's the next big bad. I just hate that Ant-Man had to be used as the stepping stone to get there. Let's move on to Phase 5, Marvel. You had your fun experimenting with Phase 4. You unfortunately forgot to include us on that ride.

Watch this on Disney+ if you want. You lose nothing by not doing it. 

 

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