![]() But once you “shrink” down to that level it is essentially its own fully lived-in, functioning, and evolving universe. The conceit of the story concepts revolving around the Quantum realm is that it is an incredibly small place. We’ve been talking about the Quantum Realm since the first Ant-Man movie, and now we are finally going in there.Įxcept, as we should have expected, there’s bad stuff down there. ![]() Cassie plays a bigger role, and has been recast, played by Kathryn Newton. The Pym family, Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lily) are all back post-Blip. We have more of a family affair in this movie. Oh, and yeah, for the fanboys focused on continuity, all the set-up your hearts desire. Once I was able to separate myself from all the stuff surrounding my feelings about yet another superhero movie, then Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania became a mostly enjoyable, if very flawed, movie-going experience. I’ll always prefer the small-scale, smaller stakes stories that were told in the first two Ant-Man films, but for this whole cinematic universe to progress, all these characters need to get bigger, and Paul Rudd has played Scott Lang so likably (it’s almost as if he can’t help but make his characters likable) that you wind up rooting for the goofball. And on the other end of that, I am more than happy to see a character like Ant-Man put at the center of a huge story. ![]() I’ll be honest, as the movie ticked off each of those boxes, I had to remind myself that were are still lots of viewers who are happy to see something like this. If you have, at some point in the last six months, felt fatigued by: superhero movies, CG spectacles, multiverse narratives, or the unnecessary need for a truly hyper-connected inter-weaving cross-title cross-media continuity, then you would do well to avoid this latest offering, billed as the “kick-off of Marvel Phase 5.” I suppose before we go any further, a warning is in order. ![]()
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