Ant man and the wasp are back
in the 31st film in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe. However,
does the film fall into the same
Marvel formula like in movies past?
Our film critic Manning
Franks went to find out.
Hey, down here you can tell I'm a.
What's smaller today?
But that's appropriate because today
we are reviewing the next chapter in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man.
The Wasp wants Romania.
But for a movie with an Ant man of the title,
it feels a lot more like any other generic
Marvel formulaic film at this point.
Translation.
A great value superhero movie
that just gets the job done.
OK, now I got to figure
out a way to get back.
Who are you? I'm the man who can give you
the one thing you want. What's that? Time.
In this three cool Marvel outing,
Scott Lang is trying to adjust to
life as a father after the battle
with Thanos in Avengers end game,
yet he and his daughter Cassie seemed to be
even farther apart than they were before.
That is, until the two of them,
along with the Wasp Hank
Pym and Janet van Dyne,
are sucked into the quantum realm
when they come face to face
with strange new creatures,
bizarre physics,
and a powerful being known
only as Kang the Conqueror.
Ohh yeah, that's better.
That's much, much better. And
at the end of the wasp, quantum mania
gets points for its visual creativity,
as the designs for the quantum
world are some of the most brilliantly
inexplicable creations in the entire MCU. Yet
what impresses from a visual conception
truly falls flat in execution.
Shallow characterization, predictable jokes,
and a muddied story with far too much
exposition dragged down the fund that
should have been had with this film
like Ant Man and the Wasp themselves.
You're trapped in an unknown realm,
only this one is of cookie
cutter predictability.
The film is not a hopeless cause, though.
The bright spot to shine through
all of this is Jonathan Majors as
the villainous Kang the Conqueror,
and let me tell you,
Marvel is lucky to have him.
Majors is such a dynamic performer
that your eyes are constantly glued
to the screen whenever he graces
it with his diabolical presence.
While most of the cast can't
seem to move past a silly script,
the characterization of Kang
along with Major's.
Performance is a breath of fresh air
and man in the wasp quantum mania
plays more like the setup to the
next big Marvel phase in comparison
to the heroes next adventure.
Which is nothing inherently wrong with that.
It's just by trying to do both,
it ultimately fails in doing either.
I'm giving quantum mania a for you to decide.
You can watch it only in theaters.
Alright so I will say this and
as a huge Marvel fan, right the
quantum universe is going to play
a huge role from here forward.
Let me get a little bit
nerdy for y'all sorry Chad.
It's it's gonna get play a big pivotal role
going forward that in the multiverse stuff.
But honestly at this point for 31 films
I'm I'm kind of checked out right now.
It's been going on for a little
too long hot take over here.
Y'all hot 31 films in their universe.
If they have what was the first one Iron Man.
2008 alright. Yep.
In Spiderman was not a part of that.
Right spider rigging.
I've gotta say this will be
alright everyone buckle up zoom.
Talk about the first thing,
first of Marvel over here.
No. Yeah.
Spiderman,
Tobey Maguire is what you're thinking
is like that's in the 2000s,
completely separate and universe.
But Tom Holland's the one in there
universe that they've created right now
they're making a fourth one also as well.
They're not going to stop until they
stop making money at this point.
No, that's exactly
right. And they'll never stop.
It's like Star Wars and Star Trek.
It just goes on and on forever. I think
there might be breaks
obviously here right now but.
At this point, this one just
kind of feels like they're,
they're in the formula right now.
They're doing the same
thing over and over again.
Well, and I think well,
like what we said in the beginning,
I think this is there to get
you to the next set of movies.
That's what happens.
So it was almost like a we
got to bridge that gap.
It's exactly what it is.
But you know
what? Jonathan Majors is a great actor.
He's great as the villain in this one,
and I'm excited to see him in more movies,
not just marvel, but just movies in general.
So were you surprised when I said
I hadn't seen the Marvel movie?
I was. But Toby McGuire,
he saw those Spiderman movies.
So that counts, OK.
Yeah, that counts.
I love those films.
So they are good choice,
good choice.