Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023
5/10
When I saw the trailer, I was amped up to take my Ass to the theater to watch it.
Unfortunately, freight been slow so I was out on the road and mainly came home to reset my clock and restock, catch up on shit for the short times I was home.
So I just did not have the time to get to the theater.
My two sons are not really interested in these superhero films like majority of young people their age, they had no interest in going to the theater to see it.
So we watched it together last night on Disney+ for the first time while eating dinner. I was excited to see it and looking forward to it based on the trailer.
Not going to get into details. But I was highly disappointed in it. Earlier in the day I had watched a film called “DEFCON 4” that came out in 1985 that I reviewed yesterday in the movie thread. Halfway thru this film they basically ripped off the plot that kicked in halfway of DEFCON to end Ant-Man. It was like I was watching a Fucking reboot of DEFCON 4.
I know folks have routinely said that the writing sucks. I don’t agree with it but recently I been going thru a throwback film binge in films and I’m slowly noticing that a lot of old material from various genres is getting rehashed for current material. It should not be a surprise with these major studios like Disney, Warner Bros, SONY, Paramount over the past 30+ years swallowing up all those old studio production companies and acquiring their catalogues.
Lots of folks today will tell you that Episode 4 of Star Wars is just a rehash of a few classic westerns from the 1950s. Even George Lucas admitted he stole shit from the old Flash Gordon serials.
Anyway…MODOK was a big disappointment. He always was a B-List villain and came off silly in the comics. The MCU could have rebooted his image but obviously decided to clown him. He would have fit better in She-Hulk since they went that route.
The only highlight I liked was Kang at the end going against everyone by himself and showing how strong and capable he is. This gave us a preview of how he is going to go against the Avengers in the next Avengers film. In comics he is in a small group of villains that can go Force-On-Force solo against the Avengers. So seeing him like that gives hope for that film.
Overall, I will say this was nowhere near the best MCU, they dropped the ball with a good opportunity to display Kang. But being all these projects are connected and Kang will be reappearing in other variants in upcoming projects, I will give MCU the benefit of the doubt…for now.
It’s an entertaining film, but falls in the category of “You See It Once And Have No Interest In Seeing It Again”.