I went into "Quantumania" with really low expectations, since none of the trailers really spoke to me. Unfortunately, these doubts were confirmed in the finished film. I liked the two predecessors quite a bit. They were small, family-friendly stories, where the main goal was not yet again to save the whole world from ultimate destruction. The humor, in particular, worked very well in these films.
In the third Ant-Man film, almost none of these strengths remain. The jokes have been reduced to a bare minimum, and the few that are still there often don't work. The solid action sequences from the previous films, which creatively dealt with the different sizes of the characters, are also no longer present. Instead, nearly the entire film is set in a CGI environment that I would describe as "barely okay" in terms of visuals. The villain M.O.D.O.K., on the other hand, looks like a character model from an early PS3 game. They couldn't even get his lip sync right.
The decision to move the action completely to the quantum realm isn't just a visual disappointment, though. The story also suffers from it. Instead of a self-contained little adventure like in its predecessors, "Quantumania" has the task of setting up the "big picture." It's just too bad that they forgot that the film also has to work on its own. In any case, there is hardly any suspense; the new characters are too underdeveloped for that, and the old ones get almost nothing to do. In the last act, everything falls completely apart until the film ends rather abruptly. Any risk is avoided, and the status quo remains. The MCU films have handled that better in the past.
However, there are a few positive aspects to "Quantumania," particularly some of the performances. For instance, Paul Rudd is still pretty good in the lead role. Kathryn Newton also does a solid job as the new Cassie Lang. And to my delight, I noticed that Michelle Pfeiffer gets a lot more to do. Most impressive, however, is Jonathan Majors as the new MCU supervillain Kang. He really has a great presence, even if his character spends a bit too much time delivering long monologues. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of Majors in this multiverse in the future. And that's at least a somewhat conciliatory thought. All in all, I didn't really like "Quantumania", but it's not a total failure either.
Review by ToralfVIP 3BlockedParent2023-02-17T22:21:33Z
I went into "Quantumania" with really low expectations, since none of the trailers really spoke to me. Unfortunately, these doubts were confirmed in the finished film. I liked the two predecessors quite a bit. They were small, family-friendly stories, where the main goal was not yet again to save the whole world from ultimate destruction. The humor, in particular, worked very well in these films.
In the third Ant-Man film, almost none of these strengths remain. The jokes have been reduced to a bare minimum, and the few that are still there often don't work. The solid action sequences from the previous films, which creatively dealt with the different sizes of the characters, are also no longer present. Instead, nearly the entire film is set in a CGI environment that I would describe as "barely okay" in terms of visuals. The villain M.O.D.O.K., on the other hand, looks like a character model from an early PS3 game. They couldn't even get his lip sync right.
The decision to move the action completely to the quantum realm isn't just a visual disappointment, though. The story also suffers from it. Instead of a self-contained little adventure like in its predecessors, "Quantumania" has the task of setting up the "big picture." It's just too bad that they forgot that the film also has to work on its own. In any case, there is hardly any suspense; the new characters are too underdeveloped for that, and the old ones get almost nothing to do. In the last act, everything falls completely apart until the film ends rather abruptly. Any risk is avoided, and the status quo remains. The MCU films have handled that better in the past.
However, there are a few positive aspects to "Quantumania," particularly some of the performances. For instance, Paul Rudd is still pretty good in the lead role. Kathryn Newton also does a solid job as the new Cassie Lang. And to my delight, I noticed that Michelle Pfeiffer gets a lot more to do. Most impressive, however, is Jonathan Majors as the new MCU supervillain Kang. He really has a great presence, even if his character spends a bit too much time delivering long monologues. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more of Majors in this multiverse in the future. And that's at least a somewhat conciliatory thought. All in all, I didn't really like "Quantumania", but it's not a total failure either.