The Guardian Style Review — Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review – Marvel’s last-ditch effort to win fans back.

★★☆☆☆

Kevin Feige fails to set Jonathan Majors up as the next big villain.

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In a market saturated with superhero movies, it's no surprise that fans are starting to experience superhero burnout. It seems Marvel has adopted a quantity-over-quality approach to content production, leaving many fans dissatisfied with the latest wave of Marvel movies. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania sadly falls into this category, feeling like an overly formulated, underdeveloped CGI mess of a film that is not only forgettable but also inconsequential to the MCU. Jonathan Majors provides an entertaining and enjoyable performance, but his character, Kang the Conqueror, feels nowhere near as developed or as exciting as previous villains seen within the MCU. 

The plot itself is fairly simplistic. Ant-Man and the crew find themselves trapped in the quantum realm after Cassie Lang (played by Kathryn Newton) activates a quantum beacon that draws unwanted attention. From this point, the movie becomes a slog of exposition, with characters moving from one place to another without any real sense of direction or location. The entire world around them is entirely CGI, leaving the viewer with the vertigo of staring at the screen for a solid three hours.

A noticeable absence in this movie is Michael Peña's character Luis and his accompanying crew. In fact, this entire movie ditches the heist formula that made the first two Ant-Man films so popular, leaving it feeling soulless without its core premise and characters. If you plan on seeing this movie, have low expectations.