Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - Spoiler Review
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Now that Quantumania has hit theaters, I have all kinds of spoiler thoughts on Kang, returning characters, characters who DIDN'T return, the quantum realm, and more!
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0:00 - Intro & reviews
2:36 - Kang
9:47 - Janet & the Quantum Realm
19:27 - Scott
23:44 - Cassie
26:33 - M.O.D.O.K.
29:43 - Bill Murray
31:15 - Returning characters
33:07 - Editing
35:12 - MCU & wrap-up - Розваги
Just to head this off at the pass - I noticed while watching back the upload that I said you could see "the Rick & Morty influence" in regard to the Council of Kangs. That was a muddled version of what I meant to say, which is that Rick & Morty WAS obviously influenced by the Council of Kangs, not the other way around. I'm aware the Council of Kangs preceded the Council of Ricks. Poor wording on my part, should've been clearer!
I do think its fun that art imitates art imitates art
Dan, for my birthday, can you squeeze in a Skinamarink review?
How dare you not word it perfectly, you will be yelled at by me accordingly!!!! Jk all good I know what you mean. Tip toeing around rick and morty stuff stupid annoying atm
I don't think he who remains originally discovered the multiverse in fact Rama Tut might be the first Kang BUT he who remains was the proactive pragmatic guy who decided most Kangs are bad for the universe and starting eliminating the other Kangs existences because if you don't prune timelines then you have infinite Kangs and each one is generally evil with a couple of exceptions
Lol Rick and Morty stole the council of Morty idea FROM KANG THE CONQUEROR...one is a really famous goofy comic scene from like the 60's that nerds always discuss and another is from a pretty recent TV show...like OBVIOUSLY Rick and Morty COMPLETELY bit off of Marvel comics
Scott wanting back lost time with his daughter and then making a deal with the devil to get it, making a choice between memories he could never have or upholding his duty as a superhero, would have been such a compelling storyline in this movie. I was disappointed the writers didn’t explore it.
Wait, that's not what they do??? That's the single easiest idea to have a home run movie with these specific characters.
I mean I probably wasn't going to see this movie anyway, but how do you not do that if you're making decisions at Marvel? Sheesh that's dumb.
Couldn't agree any more with that. Apparently, that was the initial plan for Black Panther 2 if Chadwick Boseman hadn't passed (the exploration of the time lost during those 5 years being gone after the events of Thanos). The choice aspect is also a constant theme with Captain America where he had to choose between his own duty and love with Peggy.
@La mente inglesa I mean in all fairness it's not exactly a surprise when a marvel movie/show doesn't take that route considering every hero lost something from the blink. I mean you could have wondered the same with Hawkeye. Do we really want a show about larping or him catching up with his daughter. Doesn't the same go for doctor strange? When you make an event as big as the snap in a world as shallow as the mcu you gotta expect some things to be glanced over. Also the entire movie is about him trying to protect his daughter. It's fair enough he's not exactly concerned with "catching up" when their lives are constantly in eminent danger. My problem isn't with the story direction. It's maybe not v for vendetta with depth but I thought the story the chose had plenty of potential. I'd say the movie minus kang lived up to 25% of it. Honestly even taking out the badly placed jokes and writing certain plot moments to make more sense would have done wonders for the movie. Also less scenes that feel completely pointless. Personally i thought the daughter was one of the worst parts of the movie and a movie with less of her in general would have been a plus.
I don’t think that would happen though, because Scott Lang does not seem at all the character who would make a deal with the monsters just for his own selfish gain. He begrudgingly helps Kang because his daughter’s life is threatened. I can’t see a world with Scott Lang helping a genocidal maniac just so he could have the five years that he lost.
@@thebortthe exactly. In the movie he is presented with this option and turns it down immediately until Kang threatens his daughter. Scott working with Kang for his own selfish interests would be totally out of character!
#1 gripe - Scott cooperates. He 100% does what Kang wanted him to do. And then he's like, "Okay, time to hold up your end of the bargain. Where's my daughter?!?" Kang does not hold up his end of the bargain. Fast forward to the end of the movie, and Kang is taunting Scott with, "You could have just gone home... But you just had to resist!" Um, hello! NO, he didn't resist. He literally just asked for you to give him back his daughter. You could have sent his ass home, and then you wouldn't be stuck fighting him right now!
You can have the hero decide he can't go through with the villains plan, or you can have the villain double-cross the hero. Either is fine. But you definitely can't have the villain double-cross the hero and then complain that the hero refused to go through with the villains plan. That's not a thing.
He couldn’t send them back because Cassie escaped. So he was unable to honor the deal for that reason. He also couldn’t admit that to Scott as he would lose leverage. So in the end his point was if he and Cassie just followed the deal he would have sent them home. I believe he was honest on that because he was urging Janet to go home to hope before she broke his ship.
Heh I thought that too, when Kang was telling Scott he could have just gone home. No, Kang double-crossed him, that's why they were fighting!
Good point. I was thinking about that as well after the movie.
YES! I totally caught this too. These Rick and Morty writers ain't cutting it
@@mojo782 it’s not just on the writers though. Dozens of other people probably saw the script and saw edits of the film at various stages and could have pointed it out at some point. But if something goes all the way through to the final product, that’s on the higher ups.
There’s a reason why Kang is the only character that people are praising in this movie. It’s because he’s the only character that exists in this movie. The main cast of heroes are just action figures and exposition machines.
@Siddharth Sriram Did you post this on Campea's review? Lol
What's weird is that the marketing focused on him more than Ant Man and The Wasp. Like I love Majors as Kang, he carried the movie so much that I forgot this was supposed to be an Ant Man and The Wasp movie. At least in The Winter Soldier, despite Bucky and Alexander Pierce being the main villain, you're still remembering yourself that you want a Captain America movie. Here this is more so a Kang movie than it is those two characters
Uhm not sure about this statement
@Siddharth Sriram The Ants had superior technology, Hank Pym sent them there since he was in his 20s so they have technology the Ants developed that’s thousands of years ahead of Kangs.
@Siddharth Sriram Thor 4 is the worst MCU movie case closed
The editing was also something I noticed. Scenes where Scott and Cassie are taken but the next scene shows them seperated and Cassie already having drank the ooze which was also like a 1 Min scene and felt so awkward there. Multiple other instances as well of characters waking with someone and then meeting up again with them a min later in a different way. (Janet and Kang)
That was my biggest gripe. They cut out seemingly two important scenes that would've established locations.
Yeah Janet and Kang were really noticeable. He takes her through a portal and the next time you see them a Kang soldier brings her in to see him... You guys... were /just/ together?
I just want to point out that Kang The Conquerer is defeated by being sucked into the core- which earlier we learned created a probability storm. So I THINK that the movie is telling us that Kang is both alive and dead- trapped in Schrodinger's box.
Great point
Great analysis but I’m confused on why Dan has a problem with the Council of Kangs saying Kang is dead. The credits literally say “Kang Will Return”. I doubt they mean a variant of Kang bc they all have different names. It would be too confusing for them to be referring to someone else.
@@alcoballic9593 and I believe that Victor Timely is THE Kang the Conqueror right before he created the TVA. In the comics, he travels to 1901 upon an embarrassing defeat from the Avengers and becomes Victor Timely so I think they'll do that here.
@@cpu1639 Possibly. The only problem I have with that is basically the only problem I had with the movie. Kang is described as an Avengers level threat but gets beaten by Ant-Man. That wouldn’t have happened to Thanos.
@@alcoballic9593 well, he only got his suit back but his "powers" are not at their full potential because time and space works differently in the Quantum Realm. Kang was not able to showcase his true potential there and his suit was damaged/destroyed for the final confrontation. Kang is human, he doesn't have powers so he has limits but I'm very confident that we will get to see Kang the Conqueror again at his full potential in another movie.
Not just Cassie every new character MCU introduced is already expert in their skills.
Think of it the same way each new generation of athletes “better” at the same skill. They “build” ontop of the original formula and they make it their own. But they wouldn’t be where they are without the original hero laying the ground work.
We definitely don’t wanna see the same old origin story over and Over again.
When Hank made a big deal about the "smart ants" and they got sucked into the quantum realm with everybody, I thought to myself: "it's chekhov's ants!" ... So I was happy when they showed up during the climax of the film
For me it was the chekov’s living giant buildings.
Chekov's ants lol
Kaiju Ants are the bomb.
I literally said Chekov's ants out loud in the scene when they were being pulled into the quantum realm. I don't think my seat neighbor enjoyed me being correct, but it was so obvious.
When the ants took out Kang, i started laughing hysterically in the theater. This movie is just embarrassing
Your thoughtful descriptions of each section that you had problems with is refreshing compared to the countless reviews out there that just say "it's messy". Thank you
Oh man. Thank you! The Janet thing peeved me A LOT for the first part of the movie. She kept saying tropey stuff like I’m doing this for your protection without revealing information that would actually HELP. I hate hate hate that stuff. When eventually she starts to talk about Kang the movie begins for me.
I was mixed but I enjoyed it overall. I really like Dan because his reviews touch on everything I feel watching these movies. But explains it better than I could. I can’t believe this Kang is gone because I’m apprehensive about the other Kangs. To an extent I feel it would have helped to have a completely Kang-centered movie because I feel it’s a lot of work for Jonathan Majors to carry that we might end up with a trash final Kang
She was pissing me off
Like bisb if you actually said something maybe Cassie wouldn't of created the machine
It felt like Antman was now in a Guardians of the Galaxy movie and Tatooine and Naboo inhabitants had crossed over with him.
Scott should have said: "I can do this all...." and then get punched by Kang before being able to say "day". Scott is NOT Captain America.
I laughed out loud when you talked about the "I could do this all day" line, because my husband whispered it during that scene!
No one can possibly believe that Kang is dead. We didn't see him die. We saw him get shrunk down further along with the power core with the Pym particle tags. He's gonna figure out how to unshrink himself. No way he's dead
I agree, if anything he will come back more powerful
We all know that was not a real death. He can always come back
If he does come back he's going to be truly insane due to being stuck in the probability storm of that power source. If he somehow isn't totally unhinged he might actually fight with the avengers against the other Kangs in the big hurrah but it will be an alliance of necessity. That, or his new target will be the lang family specifically
@@MrKangorilla I think the probability storm for him will be the opposite of Scott. Instead of working together like all the Scott’s, the worst version of him will destroy all the others and come out the most evil and powerful.
I mean we spent the whole movie watching people get bigger and smaller and they're fine. And then at the end of the movie the big bad just ...gets smaller. (I know he gets sucked into the engine but, whatever) The established pattern is not a character, gets smaller and then is super for real very much actually dead.
There is a secret Loki cameo at the beginning of the movie when Scott is walking up the street. Hes wearing a TVA uniform but the camera is slightly blurred and im willing to bet that we see that same scene in Loki S2
Wait WHAT???
I…… don’t know if that’s true
Go rewatch it
Bullshit.
After the movie I also wished so hard that this Kang is not dead. He's calm, murderous, no scruples, I love this villain.
THANK YOU for mentioning the editing. I was sitting in The imax theater last night and I was thinking both “I feel bad for whoever has to edit this movie” and “what the hell is the editor doing.” So many times a scene would cut and like seconds later back to the same characters and they have moved so far or have acquired something that was before the cut. I felt like I was going crazy or missing something
I too feel that the writers and producers of the film missed out on some compelling storytelling by not following through with the premise of Scott wanting to help Kang because of the promise of being given time with Cassie back.
I also felt there would've been more weight to the end of the film if Scott "died" with Kang, which I thought was going to happen with the line "I don't have to win, we both have to lose", which motivates Cassie to join the young Avengers moving forward.
And in a later film, say The Kang Dynasty,it's revealed Scott didn't die but just got stuck in the Quantum realm.
I haven't seen the film but if Scott died he'd have to stay dead. They've done "stuck in quantum realm" to death already.
@@randomcharacter6501 really how many times 🤔
@@elmerromero6694 twice... Hank's wife and Scott were both hopelessly stuck in the quantum realm. But I guess third times the charm lol
Agreed, and I'd go a step further and turn Scott into a villain. Years in the Quantum Realm makes him twisted..
@@elmerromero6694
If Scott were to return as a villain it would work
I'm just bugged that Scott had no real stake in this whole mess. The guy almost died because he fell into a machine his daughter built, and had to clean up the mess Janet made
It felt like Kang was Janet's villain, but Scott was forced to fight him
I think that really was the Prime version of Kang, aka the one everything will revolve around in the upcoming years. The way he talks about himself makes me think, even the Council of Kangs was afraid of him and that's why he got dumped into the Quantum Realm when they all banded together. He might also be the one who founded the alternate TVA Loki is now stuck in and their whole mission is to get him back.
One thing I'm certain of: He isn't dead. We will see him again.
We didn’t see a body…so he’s not dead. He’s in the core somewhere.
He was the rickest rick
why didn’t they just kill him
It occurred to me that the ant-family is effectively taking the Fantastic Four’s role as a family of scientific adventurers. This would have been better as an FF movie because the ant-family’s powers are so redundant.
Came away annoyed at this movie that there weren’t much stakes (everyone survived) and this kang was defeated so easily. The whole rebellion thing was lackluster
the thing about everytime we meet Kang it's a different version COULD be interesting, because I know it's better knowing all the bad things were done by the same person, but the idea that the Avengers have to stop different versions of the same guy and no matter what they do in THIS universe, they don't stop coming, translates better into the concept of Multiverses
This was an excellent, well thought out review. From editing choices to plot details with specific examples. Bravo Dan.
Not sure if this is an inconsistency or if I missed something.
Early on we find out that Janet was part of the resistance (i.e. fighting against Kang). Bill Murray's character says that she left the resistance to join "him", supposedly meaning Kang. But the way the story unfolds, Janet actually inadvertently helped Kang become a conqueror. So how did she leave the resistance for him if she left Kang before the resistance even started?
there was a very very heavy star wars vibe to it from the moment they entered the microverse. I MEAN quantum realm.
i think the opening narration could have been luis summing up everything and it would have been a thousand times more entertaining
What's really causing the fatigue to set in for me is how the MCU is feeling less fun for me and more like a homework assignment.
Too many shows, and if I don't watch them, then I won't fully understand what's happening in the movie.
Starts to suck the entertainment value from the movies for me.
I do think they've put too much stuff out the last two years with the films and the Disney+ shows. One of my issues with the comics is there's just too much stuff happening to keep track of and big crossovers events are baked in at this point and it's so hard to follow. I'm not there yet with the MCU but I can understand why people are. With the comics, even if you read the main story there'll be characters who just disappear and you have to pick up another 4 issues of a spin off title to find out what happened with them. It's really annoying.
Dan, THANK YOU, for mentioning the editing issues with this movie. As someone who also studied editing, I had a hard time explaining this issue with my family and friends, but glad to know it isn't just me who noticed that.
I didn't think Kang was killed (just sucked into another dimension, soon to return), which was maybe why I enjoyed the movie a little more. I would be bummed if I thought Kang could so easily be defeated... this Kang specifically.
Red Skull wad sucked and I pretty much forgot about him until Infinity War
That variant is but kang actually is not dead at all after credit scenes confirm it
Most people fail to note that there are 2 sets of Ant-Men & 2 sets of Wasps in this movie... I feel if you look at this movie with the knowledge that Janet *IS* the Wasp, then calling this movie "Ant-Man and the Wasp makes more sense. She is a prominent part of this movie and she is the original Wasp
I definitely think the movie was Disney+ level, a mixed bag indeed. Jonathan Majors was phenomenal though. I wish he wasn't so nerfed in the last few scenes for plot convenience (like vaporizing dozens of people but setting his phazers to "slightly injure" when he faced the Ant-Man family). Also, it felt very Rick & Morty when Janet, Hope, and Hank are escaping Bill Murrary, and they had to pause to do a bit about Janet's needs.
I was also so convinced Scott was gonna say "I can do this all day" during that fight as well, especially as Ant-Man references Cap a couple times earlier in the film.
34:00 That back-and-forth cut felt odd to me, too, but my bigger issue with that part was that there was very clearly a sequence missing between first encountering the freedom fighters and Scott being dragged to "drink the ooze" during which he and Cassie got separated.
21:48 THIS! I honestly was waiting to hear Scott say “ I can do this all day!”! The theater I was in would have lost it!
hey dan. i hope everyone has a great day. can't wait to see your picard review. season 3 just hit the bricks running.
For me, this movie had the same problem as The Multiverse of Madness as it serves more of a prequel to future projects instead of as a sequel to a film series.
In addition, it follows the current predictable MCU formula of 2 opposing CGI armies fighting alongside the main villain and hero that I feel is unnecessary as it detracts from the main conflict.
I hated MODOK and how Kang is supposed to be this "big bad guy" that killed numerous interpretations of Avengers, but he loses to Hank Pym's ants.
However, I do feel Johnathan Majors as Kang is phenomenal, and I didn't think I was going to like Cassies as much as I do.
It's not as bad as the critics say it is, but I can understand how a more casual MCU fan and the average movie goer can walk into this film and leave going "WTF did I just watch?"
So well done, sir! Beautifully executed! 🙇🏼♀️👏🏻🫡
The original ending was Scott & Hope got stuck & Kang got out... That was part of the re-shoots
This might be the silliest thing to be excited about, but I love that Dan is wearing a Demon Slayer shirt.
Fuck yeah, not silly at all.
This!
I enjoyed the movie, was entertained, had fun, never bored from beginning to end. Was it endgame, no, but not expecting that anytime soon. Is it a fun theatre experience, yes, people should see it and just enjoy the ride.
I remember when Kevin Smith was on Movie Fights, he said he wanted Bill Murray to play Kang, and while we don't get that, we were SO CLOSE!! Almost makes you think Kev knows a little something about making movies lol. Great Review, Dan!
9:04 Dan having a "Don't ask questions. Just consume product then get excited for next product" moment lol
@@LuisSierra42 Say hello to my chocolate blend!
Our whole group that went last night liked it.
Not top-tier Marvel, but we all had a good time. Kang was definitely a standout
Ready to hear your thoughts on the whole movie,Dan….🔥
Great review Dan.
I also did a "Jim from the office" face at some of the weird edits/ screen jumps
I love this movie. I was completely sucked in when they entered the Quantum Realm. Majors is fantastic, I loved the battle scenes, and all of the bonkers science fiction imagery. They embraces the ludicrousness of MODOK, the Council of Kangs, and more and I loved it.
People forget that at the end of the second ant man movie, they talk about time vortexes so I'm guessing the ants went through a time vortex
I spent a lot of time as a critic and studying the space. My man, you're really good at this.
In the middle of the movie, Janet mentioned she did tell Hope to stay away from the quantum realm, plus she did not even know others experimented on the quantum realm behind her
I just saw it today. Overall, I would say it was fine. I’m too familiar with Kang as a character, but I can the slow approach that Marvel is taking with him. It’s not quite time for him to “beast out” yet, but I’m looking forward to watching how he progresses to that point. Jonathan Majors and Michelle Pfeiffer definitely stole the movie, I really enjoyed everyone in the Ant Family. It’s like Star Wars meets Honey I Shrunk the Kids and occasionally plays with Avatar. I’ll give an 6.5 out 10. Not a big hit, but certainly not a miss either.
I had the same thought of this feels like "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" meets "Star Wars" lol
Marvel really, really needs to stop killing villains in all of the movies. The villains are often the most interesting characters in the comics. There are ways to stop a villain without killing them.
Dude if Scott said "I can do this all day", I would've flipped. That's so good.
Really good review Dan, new viewer
Man that specific edit you mentioned was the exact same one I thought was jarring. The drink the goo thing had a little intensity to it and cutting killed it
Just because it's called Ant-man and the Wasp doesn't mean it has to focus on Hope. The focus on Janet was a nice surprise, they just needed a deeper dive into her character and how the trauma of being trapped for 30 years weighs on her and the family. Then the family could heal through the course of the film. There was little to no change of any character from the beginning of the film to the end.
dan giving us the whole spoiler filled kitchen sink with this video
That line that he said I can do this all day got me 😢 I wish that was in the movie
Great review. Exactly what I felt like watching the film.
Thanks Dan
His existential crisis at the end was so chilling, such a tonal shift, I loved it more than almost anything else in the movie.
It served to really ground it to a real person's life, connecting the CGI craziness of the quantum realm to normal life: a dad carrying his daughter's cake down the street in San Francisco.
I feel like it gave us such a huge insight into Scott's mind, and it seemed like a real mind.
I'm glad you brought up that trailer marketing beat about Scott being offered a chance to get back lost time with Cassie. It felt like a major missed opportunity.
Hi Dan great video.Only watched half so far cause i started ir at 2am and I need to sleep. Will watch the rest tomorrow.
Dude I also thought about that line. I saw him get up again and thought "That's the Steve Rogers spirit" 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤪
When they cut to credits on that cake "joke," the silence in my theater was *deafening.*
Same for me, both times. One critics screening, one public screening. Same lack of reaction
I think the MCU in phase 4 and 5 is missing the movies like Avengers to gather all the characters to build the storyline and to have the connection between the individual movie/show. They have The Avengers in phase 1, Avengers: Age of Ultron in phase 2, Avengers: Infinity War & Endgame in phase 3.
I think they should’ve had a quantum realm show to develop all the characters to supplement this movie
Yes. I’m not someone who likes any of their shows but at least this potential show has a purpose
Great thoughts 👏🏽
Solid review
Spot on review, Dan. Had a lot to agree with you on this one. My boys and I went Saturday to see this and me and my oldest were fighting to stay awake at times lol...we all agreed that it almost felt like a Star Wars movie
Time moved differently because of time votex, antman feel into one at the end of antman and the wasp. I'm guessing the same thing happened to the ants
There are now two versions of Kang that I really love how they are portrayed by JM and I’m really excited for the definitive version that we get to hang on to
The lack of character building is why I just can’t get into any of the new Marvel heroes. The original movies were not all cinematic perfection. In fact many of the quality issues now (e.g., the villain problem, uneven storytelling, poorly choreographed fight scenes, etc.) have been problems since the beginning. I think the difference for me is that the movies were primarily about the motivations, frailties, and personal struggles of the heroes and there weren’t so many things they had to get accomplished. I loved the original characters so much that I didn’t mind the story or technical weaknesses. And it’s not that I was a fan of the heroes from the comics-I only know them from the movies. But I feel like I know more (and am more emotionally attached to) even some secondary characters from the first phases than I am to the new central characters.
I can't believe darren cross just turned into a pathetic comedic sidekick. Kind of reminded me of how Loki went from former villain to comedy sidekick in Ragnarok (he was still funny though).
So… this feels like a failed Thor 3.
Hanks ants coming in at the end and fucking up the man that most def hooked up with his wife, was such a beautiful scene on many levels.
One of the things for me was I felt kang wasn't scary enough. He talked a talk and the performance was good, but I never really got the impression anyone should be worried like they were with thanos. If he had wiped the rebellion out and beat up Scott, maybe have him narrowly escape, I would of have a sense of stakes and escalation. Instead we had more of what loki left us with.
You have to put the Heist scene in an Ant-Man movie!! I so missed that in this one and agree that it didn’t feel like an Ant-Man movie.
So glad you mentioned that weird series of cuts😂
Perfect review
The biggest question I have about Janet is how long has she been *out* of the quantum realm? She comes out during Ant-Man & the Wasp, gets turned to dust in the post-credits scene of that movie and then brought back in Endgame. So how long has it been since Endgame?
and she sent scott back to QR before they turned to dust yet in this movie shes acting like she does t want anyone to know about the QR
According to tineline needs she's been out of the Quantum realm for a year or two.
It’s a standout sequence when all the versions of Scott work together, completely agree.
Cassie building a quantum radio in their basement, then able to boost it into an actual portal actually made me laugh so hard in the theater. Also completely undermining Scott and Hope’s sacrifice.
She's another new young character/child of a superhero who is just instantly good at everything, with no origin story and no obstacles to overcome. That's one of the problems with Phase 4 onwards so far, that the new young characters they're setting up all over are more instantaneous than the heroes we got from the beginning. I get that maybe audiences don't want 1-3 films of origins/set-up for every hero now, but still...
Dan with the Kimetsu no Yaiba T-shirt you love to see it
Loving your newfound respect for anime via the Demon Slayer shirt.
Your take on Ant-man saying "I can do this all day" is something that now I wished that could've happened in the movie
I was so disappointed by this movie. I hated that Kang was the big bad guy instead of MODOK. Kang should’ve fought alongside ant-man, gotten out, and then revealed to be a huge threat. We could’ve sympathized with him, rooted for him, and then feared him. And it would’ve been THIS variant. I hated that he’s supposedly dead by the end.
And everything in the quantum realm just felt low stakes because we never got invested in any of the resistance stuff. It felt like a rehash of the rebellion in Thor ragnarok.
To top it all off, this really didn’t feel like ant man 1 or 2: lower stakes with more humor than action. This was a huge CGI fest with very minimal humor.
One Shot Of Woo is my new band name, thanks Dan.
I really admire how thorough and measured this critical assessment was. Felt like a proper impartial analysis and not pointless peacocking to appeal to one side or another.
I don’t think he’s dead. He def got sent somewhere else in the meantime. Maybe to play a bigger role as Kang the Conquerer
They played it so safe with this one. Didn't take any chances at all. All sunshine and rainbows by the end. Zero consequences. Just another fun Ant-Man romp. You can't even really say there was a completed character arch in this.
I really hope they keep going with this specific Kang. Following one Kang would be a way bigger threat and more investing to follow than random Kang #89765 popping up.
MODOK was handled really well too in my mind despite the CGI being absolutely no good.
I liked it and had a good time in the theater. The things to complain about are the lengths of the film and editing, I wish I could have it longer, to make certain things have better established and less rushy. And quite surprised and happy to see Janet/Michelle Pfeiffer has such an important role in this, I would call it "Ant man and the 'former' Wasp" 😁.
It deserves a much higher positive score than just tons of negative criticism. I give it 70 and above.
I readily agree. It was messy but I really liked it any. It could have been more finely polished, but whatever, overall I really went into this with the lowest of expectations after Multiverse of Madness and Thor Love and Thunder. but instead I found it very enjoyable, entertaining, and I can continue to say Paul Rudd as Ant-Man is a blast. I like Kaiju Ants, I like Gi-Antman, and I loved the fantastic voyage/strangeworld/truly zany organic feel of the environment.
I was also sure they were going to stay in the Quantom Roam and build the resistance to Kang, ahead of Secret Wars. Wonder is that was a late change
Council of Kangs is not a Rick and Morty reference, the Council of Ricks is a Marvel reference.
I loved it!!
Agree with your assessment of the MCU currently-been saying all their movies have been Aggressively Fine.
Love the the ant-venger assemble scene
6:00 He Who Remains had also once been called Conqueror, and he only established the TVA after he'd defeated all his variants, to prevent more of them (and others) rising anew, so I'm pretty certain this Kang (the Exile) and that Kang (HWR) are (or would've been, had this one not died) one and the same at different points in their life. If not, then close enough to make no difference.
Believe it or not, Mr. Murrell, but this could well be the best review you've ever done.