Much more focus is given to the villain of the piece, Kang, another miniaturized exile to the quantum realm played by Jonathan Majors. I'd be amazed if Lilly has more than 30 lines in Quantumania (most of which are along the lines of "Keep going!" and "Scott, I can't hold them!").
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Hope spends the movie either trailing around behind her mom or powering up to save the day (while never seeming to get any credit for it). Evangeline Lilly's Hope van Dyne, aka the Wasp, is introduced as a world-changing scientist - which is mentioned as a tangent in a voiceover about Lang's trips for coffee and selfie requests. If Quantumania doesn't quite know what to do with Ant-Man, it really doesn't know what to do with the other title character. Even MODOK, a comics character too ludicrous for any other movie, has a more emotional journey than the supposed hero. It takes ages for Scott to do anything of consequence, and Rudd coasts along looking baffled but always on the verge of a cheerful quip. Meanwhile, Rudd's character Scott Lang is… also there, I guess, though he's far from the most interesting character. Old enemies come looking for her and her fam, forcing her to face up to what she did during exile.Ĭassie (Newton) is the heart of the film, Hank (Douglas) does the science and Janet (Pfeiffer) is the plot powerhouse whose worst nightmare catches up to her. That's particularly bad news for Janet, who spent 30 years trapped in microscopic form.
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It's all very John Carter of Mars by way of sci-fi comics like Heavy Metal and Saga (or if those references mean nothing to you, Star Wars).Ĭassie's signal to the microscopic quantum realm kicks off the story as the Ant-family is sucked into this strange kingdom, like another planet on the head of a pin. The weirdness of the micro-Mad Max setting gives rise to some entertaining jokes, arresting visuals and one or two mind-bending set pieces. By this third film, the action has scaled up to the microscopic yet larger-than-life quantum realm, a subatomic CG domain of impossible skies populated by insect-inspired critters, talking ooze-creatures and dudes with lightbulbs for heads. It's funny to think Ant-Man's story began back in 2015 with a movie that was basically a heist with a final showdown in a child's bedroom. Kathryn Newton plays the now-teenaged Cassie Lang, Scott's daughter, and in the quantum realm they encounter William Jackson Harper, Katy O'Brian and Bill Murray (yes, that Bill Murray). Returning director Peyton Reed again recruits Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Michael Douglas as her parents Hank and Janet.
Having rescued Janet van Dyne from the quantum realm in the previous Ant-Man and the Wasp film (and you'd be forgiven for remembering basically nothing about that movie), the Ant-gang is sucked back into the itty-bitty universe layered below the atoms of our full-size world. It also has a bigger significance for dedicated fans, introducing the Marvel Cinematic Universe's major new villain Kang, played by Jonathan Majors. It's a breezy, bizarro sci-fi adventure in the mold of Thor: Ragnarok, as familiar faces from the Marvel roster drop into an alien realm for fun and fighting before inspiring the locals to rise up and overthrow a hateful dictator. Let's welcome back the tiny superhero whose main superpower is Paul Rudd's outsize charm, and whose main weakness is that everybody's always belittling him - even the creators of his own movie.Īnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is in theaters now. It's time for another Marvel movie, and I guess it's Ant-Man's turn.
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