Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) - CGI With Small Satisfaction - REVIEW

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For some reason my oldest son and I have a preference for time travel movies, he also likes Ant Man but I actually not much, so I decided to watch Ant Man latest movie with him last Sunday and believe it or not Quantumania its very similar in concept to other time travel movies once you travel into the reign, times moves different and there are this channels that you can use to enter at a certain date and time to exit on a different one, now when it comes to Ant Man...meh he is funny and all but not one of my favorite heroes from the MCU. The first two Ant Man movies were funny with some action and drama with it, although look as a small budget compared to the Avengers movies. So when I heard that the third movie "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" was going to drop and start Phase 5 of the MCU, I was both excited and a bit skeptical because it was the first time I felt the MCU was giving them a chance with a big character back then, with someone like Kang. After watching it, I can say that the results were not satisfying and they totally drop the ball.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10954600/
• Platform: AppleTV+

 

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Source Source I thought Quantumania represent a significant change from the previous Ant Man movies and would expand the Kang character and probably his introduction into the Avengers world. The subatomic world has always been key aspect of Ant Man that the MCU was trying to exploit this time but it didn't play out neither as they dish it like it was just, say another planet. It does feel like this is the biggest Ant Man movie in all aspects from budget and buzz but I think it was a very average one that most people wont remember it existed.

The movie does explain more in depth Ant Man abilities in my opinion, not that the other two movies didn't but we got more details on this one, specially on how they can enter the quantum realm in a certain time and then exit into another one, meaning past of future, although they never actually did but still found Janet van Dyne who has been trap in the Quantum Realm for a very long time, she was the original Wasp, she was trap there for 30 years after things went out of control and she went subatomic during a mission. Time in the Quantum Real moves different but I'm not so sure if its only slow inside but fast outside, because Scott Lang felt he spend 5 hours in there when in fact it was 5 years during the Thanos invasion and big reset with the help of the stones, while Janet look like she spend decades and age accordingly.

Source Source The one who set things in motion was Cassie after reveal she has been working with Hank on a device that can send signals to the Quantum Realm, but Janet who spent 30 years trapped there, immediately panics and tries to shut it down, but it's too late as the entire family gets sucked into the Quantum Realm and that's where they start their adventure at the time, it seem it was easy to get in but hard to get out of it. Things have change quite a lot in the Quantum Realm as it is a fully realized world with various weird lifeforms, rebel factions and a tyran ruling with iron fist named Kang the Conqueror, role played by the now very famous Jonathan Majors after all the disaster that happen when Disney was force to take him out of the role due to his legal case with an ex girlfriend.

When I think about what was special about the movie?? it really feels that only half of it was any good while they landed in the Quantum Realm as they get separated Janet start looking for Scoot and Cassie who became prisoners of Kang, she still had friends and connections down there but Kang influence is just too big and have friends, ears and eyes everywhere. This part of the movie was too plane and simple with basically a war going on between the people of the Quantum Realm against Kang on a battle that happen just too fast, we go from a potential time travel movie to a plane civil war movie, I was hoping they could give more details about the Quantum Realm although it felt like it was just a tool rather than a character itself. During the movie I was also expecting that some how Kang would escape the realm and kick off the hole Kang saga but that never happen neither.

Source Source The cast does a good job for what the movie is, most of the characters and actors have work on previous MCU movies as TV series so everything comes together very neat in that aspect. Paul Rudd as funny as usual in his Scoot Lang role as Ant Man but when it comes to the Ant Man character the CGI was a problem, how they try to make him look massive on what look like a tight space inside the Quantum Realm, I say this because the shots never look develop in massive spaces. Cassie role played by Kathryn Newton also had an impact in the movie, following the steps of her parents with her own suit that as Ant Man allow her to grow or go very small in size giving that vibe of continuation and future for the family technology and still it felt like they didn't know how to exploit this aspects. I know I probably sound a bit harsh about this movie and you can tell since different to other posts I have made, this time I'm not giving much details about the movie on how things happen and mostly on the things that I didn't like, this is because I personally had high expectations from Kang and the Quantum Real, Ant Man was just another passenger on this movie for me. I obviously had a good time watching it with my son, explaining things to him and even telling him why I didn't like it that much but its a good watch, not a movie that I would visit every year but its the type of movie that you can watch anytime it pops up in Cable, if only I watch TV.

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