Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania has arrived to start Phase 5 of the MCU, but is it a promising start to the new Marvel phase?
) effectively retired from the superhero life, unless it gets him a free coffee. As well as becoming a bestselling author, Scott's main aim is to improve his relationship with his daughter Cassie after too much time away.
Unfortunately for Scott, Cassie has been exploring the Quantum Realm with her grandad Hank Pym , and it soon has dire consequences for the entire family. Scott, Cassie, Hank, Janet Van Dyne and Hope Van Dyne find themselves sucked back into the place they really don't want to be. In place of family bonding, Scott, Cassie and co find themselves facing a powerful new foe with links to Janet's Quantum Realm past: Kang the Conqueror . Because who needs character development when you've got the future of the MCU to set up and trippy set pieces to deliver?
The movie pays lip service to Scott trying to repair bonds with Cassie and make up for lost time, but this ends up playing second fiddle to the arrival of Kang. Kang is pivotal to the MCU in a way that Ant-Man still isn't, sofirst spends a lot of time ominously teasing his arrival rather than focusing on the characters already established.It doesn't help that once we head into the Quantum Realm, Scott and Cassie are separated from the rest of their family.
Unfortunately, the plot is thin and if you've seen the trailers, you've got the entire thing. In place of a deeper story, you get exposition dumps and foreboding teasers for the future which leavesFor some Marvel fans, that might be acceptable as the previousmovies weren't universally beloved. However, they did at least feel different to other Marvel outings as they were ground-level romps, more concerned with making small things ridiculously big than world-ending stakes.
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