I know I’m late to post this and sadly it’s allegedly MCU’s first major failure or flop or whatever, especially in light of how everybody and their uncle is jumping onboard the “Marvel needs to give it a rest” train. Even though I’m more of a DC fan with printed comic books and the small-screen animation, I wholeheartedly disagree. I hope Kevin Feige and company damn the torpedoes, double down, keep up the three movies a year plan. After 40 years of Hollywood making boring-ass movies in which many are people in corsets just yapping, I’ll take even a mediocre MCU since I want to see how the universe is unfolding.
Enough of my editorial on lazy opinions, I will be clear on how Quantamania was one of my favorite chapters for MCU. It covers more about the newer up-and-coming villain Kang who will plague The Avengers because he’s intertwined with the Multiverse (see Loki). Ant-Man finally gets to be involved in something important since he has been relegated to the D-list for years in the comics. Hell, when Marvel spun off its Ultimates universe which was a soft reboot to get certain writers to work for them, the “new” take on the Avengers ditched Ant-Man and Wasp despite them being original founders in the early Sixties. I also love the idea of another reality or universe hiding underneath the one we live. With it also being “quantum,” all the usual laws and theories regarding Physics alone can be thrown away. It’s not quite magic, it’s more along the lines of how easy it is to fly or jump.
I won’t discuss the plot as I’m confident this will be on Disney+ in record time to recover the financial losses they took at the box office. OK, just one. Someone who has a brief appearance gets killed and I’m glad, he’s an overrated asshole I never want to see in an MCU film again. He can be funny in small does yet I dislike him greatly due to him being the asshole template for many Midwestern assholes who think they’re funny when they’re just rude, selfish and bullies.
Alamo Extras: Crystals growing (under microscope); some pseudo music video and the new single from M83; old commercial for Ants in the Pants game, WarAntz toys in the Nineties; Trailers for InnerSpace, Fantastic Voyage, Them! and Antboy; snippet from Ant-Man comic book showing how MCU has an Alamo Drafthouse; a Paul Rudd bit he did for Tim & Eric; a synopsis of Ant-Man’s previous two movies; Michael Douglas’ Dr. Pym re-inserted into his other movies, namely Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct and Wall Street; joke repeated for Paul Rudd/Ant-Man but Psycho, John Wick, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Showgirls.