Antman Quantummania Review- Official Debut of Kang in the MCU

The quantum realm was the setting for most of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which marks the beginning of Phase 5 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Quantumania, the third Ant-Man film after Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), differed from their bigger and more hushed MCU counterparts by being the only one that looked after the little guy. The films are about family — the scientist Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), was the original Ant-Man; his wife Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), or the Wasp, was lost in the quantum realm for a good bit of time; his daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) used good science to heal the world when she was not the next-gen Wasp or on a romantic date with Scott Lang/Ant-Man (Paul Rudd); Lang’s daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton), wants to do her bit for the world, and if her activism gets her in jail, well that was par for the course.

Paradoxically, the “Ant-Man” movies’ unapologetic motto of “small think big” has made it unique among other parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where cinema tends to gravitate towards the larger grandiose. “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” plays around with that idea by shrinking Ant-Man/Scott Lange (Paul Rudd) and the other major characters to a subatomic size ten minutes into the story and dispatching them to the Quantum Realm, which looks like James Cameron’s Pandora reimagined as the cover of a 1970s jazz fusion album, and keeping them there for the rest of the film as they battle an exiled supervillain named Kang (Jonathan Majors). The outcome is both the biggest and smallest Ant-Man movie, using an exacting technique.

Save for a relatively brief, breezy opening section set in the Marvel present, where Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) has written a memoir about his eventful life as Ant-Man and his experiences saving the world in the wake of the Thanos Snap and the ensuing battles, the vast majority of Quantumania takes place in the Quantum Realm, that deadly microworld that you fall into if you shrink so much that you find yourself slipping between subatomic particles. Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) was saved from that land in the previous Ant-Man movie, as you may recall. Now she reveals that, in fact, she was not alone down there: “In the Quantum Realm, there is an elaborate and diverse alien tribes system which seems to be on a continuous and continuous rampage. Among them, we come across Kang (Jonathan Majors), an unknown traveler whom Janet initially befriended due to her belief that he was an unkind individual who had accidentally entered this realm. However, it was discovered that Kang was a perilous and all-encompassing entity who had been banished to the Quantum Realm from his own existence.

Now that Ant-Man has become a hit, Paul Rudd and any returning Avenger can at least be expected to show up. As a whiny social media activist, Kathryn Newton’s character Cassie sounds like a superhero. Quantumania is attributed to the dignity and grace of Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer, who contribute to the proceedings’ credibility and enjoyment. I am still impressed by Marvel’s work with older stars and the importance it gives to their achievements.