Tuesday 20 June 2023

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Peyton Reed, 2023)


MCU #31, and quite surplus to requirements. The character of Ant-Man simply doesn't have the legs, relying entirely on Paul Rudd's likability and the notion that the subatomic universe is an interesting place to eplore. It is not, proven by the two hours we have to spend trapped there with the Lang and Pym families while another generic creation-threatening villain in the form of Kang the Conqueror turns up to menace them aimlessly. Cue a deluge of nonsensical CGI battles between the baddie's legions and the daftly-conceptualised denizens of the quantum realm. There is wit, but it's all allocated to the dialogue, leaving the plot without any and therefore the whole exercise a pointless one.

4/10

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