As Taika Waititi reminded us Thor: Love and thunder The last year where Marvel movies should have been fun, plus colossal adventures with all sorts of villains, director Peyton Reed in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania takes over and multiplies the bet, squeezing the best out of Paul Rudd’s comedian as lead, Scott Lang.
Neither the first nor the second ant man they were what might be called great adventures. Here the turning point is almost total, because it continues to be, of the interconnected Marvel sagas, the most directed towards comedy, but of the three ant man it’s the funniest, the best done, the most concise, and the one where we can really get interested in the life of the characters.
With this movie begins Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so it’s the starting point of what’s to come. But fear not because the story created by the former screenwriter of Jimmy Kimmel liveJeff Loveness, making his feature film debut, cares much more – and how well he does – that the storyline has its own independent clout and, yes, broadcast what’s to come in the future.
those who have seen Lokispin-off series on Disney+, you already know Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors, from Country of Lovecraft and in whom we will see Creed III). He is a cosmic genocide and also a megalomaniac. He can travel to and destroy any thread in the multiverse. And he’s more of the villain of the moment, a sinister character, but one that we will see in many other films, a statement that is not supported by only one of the two post-credit scenes that the film has…
Most of the projection Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania takes place in the quantum realm -a universe more than a world, because it contains several-, subatomic and mutant, which exists outside our space-time, and which is the one in which Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer) has been for 30 years and from which he was rescued by his family in Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018). How do they get to the quantum realm?
Scott’s science prodigy and activist daughter Cassie (Kathryn Newton) built it with the help of Hank Pym (michael douglas, husband of Janet and father of Hope -Evangeline Lily)- a kind of meta-telescope in the basement of the house. With it, they can map the quantum realm, but someone within that realm uses that signal to suck the 5 characters, who end up there, into the quantum realm.
Which has characteristics, how to say, special.
Visually it’s like looking at psychedelic rock record covers. There are forests, moths, sprawling suns, a character that looks like broccoli, moving gelatin sculptures. And there are the rebels, impoverished, who want to fight Kang.
In that, quantimania it looks like any of the movies Star Warsin which the good guys are in conflict with a dictator, be it Darth Vader or Kang.
Janet was there years ago when Kang arrived, exiled and blew up the core of Kang’s quantum device so he couldn’t escape. Now, if she can get her hands on some Pym Particles, the ones that allow Ant-Man and the Wasp to shrink down to insect size or become giants, she has a way out.
enough plot
What matters here is the humor, the swing between adventures and gags, and a story that never wavers in its little more than two hours, counting the end credits and the two post-credit scenes.
There’s also Bill Murray, a former rebel who now works for Kang, and who once dealt with Janet, intimately. And there’s Darren (Corey Stoll), who in the former ant man (shown for those who don’t remember) was the corporate villain. Well it’s a little different, it’s shaped like MODOK, a huge evil head wrapped in tin armor with little baby hands and legs.
what has been said There is action, humour, good dialogue, great effects and a light-hearted feel which is much appreciated.
“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania”
Action/Comedy. United States, 2023. 124′, SAM 13. From: Peyton Reed. With: Paul Rudd, Jonathan Majors, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathryn Newton. Rooms: IMAX, Cinépolis Recoleta and Houssay, Hoyts Abasto and Dot, Cinemark Palermo, Showcase Belgrano.
Source: Clarin
