"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" I Really Sat Through All That?

 


    What? There's no way I just watched this entire film, and that's it. For the one (me) person who has been watched this film shortly after completing Ant-Man and the Wasp, one aspect I heavily disliked about this film was that it felt aggressively generic, and it should have utilized the Quantum Realm, because it pretty much took place on the streets, making it relatively mediocre. However, I am now disappointed after realizing, Marvel had pretty much no plans on making the Quantum Realm that interesting, and frankly now I'm asking why should people genuinely watch this movie, other as a stepping stone or hype machine for future ones.
    
    First, Spy Kids. I'll preface this by saying I might have watched some Spy Kids movies as a kid, but I cannot remember any of them. Despite this, even off of the few screenshots I always see from the film, I can confidently say that this film reeks of it. No seriously, from the aggressive orange in the background to the oddly ambiguous background, it all just feels very Spy Kids. I think part of is is Kathryn Newton, especially her lines about MODOK and being a dick, why did Cassie do that, it pretty much solidified any notion of Spy Kids that may have been in my mind.
    
    Secondly, the Quantum Realm is completely useless. I'm sorry, I'm sure some people enjoyed this film, but it wanted to be a space film so bad. From the spaceships, to the wacky aliens, if you set this movie in space instead of the Quantum Realm, it is completely useless. I mean from the "sand raiders" to the "wacky and bizarre foods" you could tell the creative team was given the directions to create a set that "looked like it was out of this world/in space, but it's actually not". Personally, they could have don much more to make the setting in general feel unique. Even if you kept the exact same design choices for everything, and told a random person it was space, I'm not sure they have any reason to really doubt you.

    Now, I understand that all superhero movies are inherently action movies, and that the fight scenes should be long, but why did it exist in this movie? I mean most of the damage done to Kang was mostly through ants anyways, the fight scene where Kang and Ant Man start punching each other was incredibly stupid, and incredibly useless. I don't know, it just felt like this movie did a lot of showing, but not enough explaining. Look here, Kang is very powerful, look here, Kang has an army, look here, Janet had an affair but everythings fine, look here, Cassie has a suit but she's pretty good at it already, look here, MODOK becomes a good guy after 2 seconds then proceeds to die in the same short span. This movie feels rushed, that's all. 

    I mean, is it a terrible watch? I suppose not, I didn't find Paul Rudd's acting that egregious, and I might even say that Jonathan Majors did pretty well as Kang, though part of me is hesitant to give him any flowers in light of recent allegations that seem quite damning. I suppose part of me has a hard time recommending this movie because, if there's no setup to more Kang, what's the point in watching it? I mean this entire film is just one big generic CGI fest, I doubt you'll get much more out of it.

Final Score: 45/100

    How am I supposed to score this movie any higher knowing what I know in retrospect. It's aggressively generic, it feels oddly long, yet despite it all nothing is fleshed out or explored, and your left expecting it to all lead up to something major (no pun intended) which has a high chance of no longer happening. Even if I was not suffering from Marvel fatigue, I can't think of one good reason to recommend this movie other than if you're a completionist, I'm certainly not going to come back to it if I had a choice.

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