Movie - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) [/]
Feb 22 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the third Ant-Man film. This is the first movie of Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Five where Phase 1 to 3 were The Infinity Saga and Phase 4 to 6 are The Multiverse Saga. In this film Scott "Ant-Man" Lang (Paul Rudd), daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton), Hope "Wasp" van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) are sucked into the Quantum Realm where they find themselves separated in a strange land.
Scott and Cassie run into a group of refugees hiding from the Conqueror. They almost make friends when Scott mentions the two are looking for Janet. Meanwhile Janet sort of takes over the other group as she reveals the backstory of what happened during her thirty years here. The main thing being that she encountered Kang (Jonathan Majors), a time traveler exiled to the Quantum Realm. She helped him fix his ship so they could both escape but then discovered he intended to conquer the multiverse and raze any universes that defied him, so she disabled his ship and fled to form a resistance until she was rescued.
Scott and Cassie are captured by Kang who gets Scott to go fetch his ships power core stuck in a quantum nexus. Then there's a bit of a betrayal. Hope rescues Scott. The group rallies the free peoples to attack Kang's fortress where he is amassing an army to invade the human world. Huge fight scene where Kang is narrowly defeated and the humans return to their world...
Kind of like the last Dr Strange movie this one has lots of alien vistas and rich colors. The story is fine though we only get a bit of new characters and little development for Hope and Hank. Jonathan Majors is really good as Kang, almost reasonable until you cross his dark side. It does feel more like a setup movie than a movie about Ant-Man and family. Overall I was entertained but not one of the best MCU experiences.
Scott and Cassie run into a group of refugees hiding from the Conqueror. They almost make friends when Scott mentions the two are looking for Janet. Meanwhile Janet sort of takes over the other group as she reveals the backstory of what happened during her thirty years here. The main thing being that she encountered Kang (Jonathan Majors), a time traveler exiled to the Quantum Realm. She helped him fix his ship so they could both escape but then discovered he intended to conquer the multiverse and raze any universes that defied him, so she disabled his ship and fled to form a resistance until she was rescued.
Scott and Cassie are captured by Kang who gets Scott to go fetch his ships power core stuck in a quantum nexus. Then there's a bit of a betrayal. Hope rescues Scott. The group rallies the free peoples to attack Kang's fortress where he is amassing an army to invade the human world. Huge fight scene where Kang is narrowly defeated and the humans return to their world...
Kind of like the last Dr Strange movie this one has lots of alien vistas and rich colors. The story is fine though we only get a bit of new characters and little development for Hope and Hank. Jonathan Majors is really good as Kang, almost reasonable until you cross his dark side. It does feel more like a setup movie than a movie about Ant-Man and family. Overall I was entertained but not one of the best MCU experiences.