Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
How do you mess up a movie with Paul Rudd, Jonathan Majors, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, and Corey Stoll? By employing the blandest CGI imaginable, which makes Stoll’s M.O.D.O.K. look like a poorly resized .jpeg with arms, and by giving us a Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors) who is too easily defeated given his multiversal powers. When the most exciting part of the movie is the post-credits scene with hundreds of Kang variants yelling in a colosseum, you know it’s a failure. In its favor, the meticulous and heartfelt unraveling of Kang’s villainous nature through exceptional dialogue between him and Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) was some of the most emotionally grounded work in the entire series. Overall, though, the MCU would’ve been better without this rushed movie. — Keith Nelson Jr
