Ant-Man has sure grown bigger here with the third entry in the series Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. While serving as the third film in the Ant-Man film series, it also serves as the first film in the MCU’s phase five and the official film introduction of Kang the Conqueror. However, can Ant-Man’s big size for Quantumania give us a good movie and introduction the main villain of The Multiverse Saga? Well, let’s find out in our review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Remember that this review is just my opinion, so let me know your thoughts in the comments. SPOILERS WILL BE SHARED!
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is about Scott Lang, Hank Pym, Hope Van Dyne, Janet Van Dyne, and Cassie Lang being sucked into the Quantum Realm where they must fight the evil conqueror Kang to go home. The movie takes very little time before it speeds into motion, as the five are taken into the Quantum Realm pretty quickly into the film. I didn’t hate that, as it was neat to see the story go right into motion, but I wish there was a bit more build-up. But anyway, 95% of the movie is set in the Quantum Realm. For most of the film, the five are separated with Ant-Man and Cassie being captured and others trying to find them. One thing I love about the Ant-Man movies is the chemistry between all of these characters, so it was a bit unfortuante to see them apart.
Moving on, let’s talk about the villain, Kang. Kang is played by Jonathan Majors, and is a conqueror who plans to destroy the broken world and build a new one. Kang is also going to be the main villain of the second part of the MCU, the Multiverse Saga. At first, it seemed weird that the main bad guy of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe’s second chapter would be cinematically introduced in a film part of a series known for its bite-sized adventures. While the first two Ant-Man movies are small-scale adventures with a more low-level threat and a heist, Quantumania is an epic and ambitious entrance of an evil conqueror in a mysterious underworld. My main problem with Quantumania is that. While it makes sense to introduce Kang here becomes of his quantum connection, I didn’t like how the film was a larger-scale story that’s extremely different from its two predecessors. However, Kang was pretty cool, and Jonathan Majors did very well in the role. Despite, I was confused. From Kang, I didn’t get the sense that he was a universe-destroying monster capable of ruling the world. I mean, the variant of Kang in Quantumania was defeated by Ant-Man for crying out loud!
Overall, I thought Quantumania was just mediocre. It certainly wasn’t bad, but the large-scale threat of the MCU’s Multiverse Saga was underdone and placed in a movie that is in a series of small-scale predecessors. I thought Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was watchable but not crazy good, and so I’m going to give it a 4.2/6 on the Ryan Meter. With that, let me know your thoughts of the movie in the comments.