Antman just got smaller and it doesn’t seem to be in the physical sense. Now any Disney movie you watch will entertain you. It’s a law of averages, every movie Disney builds comes out of the factory under license by the Leggo Kit no Assembly Required formula.

Every movie made by Disney has all the requisite leggo components and building blocks. So for critics to ask, “dear audience, wasn’t this movie entertaining?” would be redundant. It’s not whether the movie entertained the next generation of novice moviegoers. Does Antman and The Wasp Quantumania go beyond its previous iteration in creativity, originality and authenticity?

I read some critics were bemoaning the fact that viewers now have to contend with details from 31 previous Marvel movies just to keep onboard with the deluge of callbacks and references to the MCU in this chapter alone.  That might be true for the so-called adult Marvel fans who dote on this kind of fan service. 

But most younger viewers typically “fog out” over the details and just kinda hold on to the handle bars of the roller coaster ride as the production designers for Quantumania hope they would.  What does Antman and The Wasp Quantumania deliver?  A new father and YA daughter relationship as Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is now on the greener side of the tracks, having achieved success and public notoriety with his newest published book “Look Out for the Little Guy” and as the newest and most likeable Avenger, behind Spiderman of course.  

With mother-in-law Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet Van Dyne (shouldn’t she be Janet Pym? Are they actually married?) back and safe in the fold, Hank (Michael Douglas) is now a little less cranky and more cozy with Scott as the beloved of their daughter Hope (Evangeline Lilly) and quite at home as surrogate grandparents of Cassie (new actress Kathryn Newton replaced younger Abby Ryder Fortson). 

Viewers are indulged in a brief set of scenes at the Lang and Pym homestead.  Cassie is of course all grown up and has a few surprises yet for her dad who had vanished and is still catching up to the Thanos “Blip”.

What made this movie so lackluster as a follow-up to Antman and The Wasp?

1. 1. Little Cassie aka Peanuts’ disappearing act

   2. Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror

   3. The Quantum Realm Revised Edition

   4. The Triple Lutz Deluxe Act of Luis, Paxton and Maggie

   5. The derivative setups from other film franchises

These are some of the biggest drawbacks in Quantumania and will be detailed in the Members Edition of this review. Quantumania introduces viewers to actor Jonathan Majors in his biggest role yet in the MCU. Majors made his first appearance in the streaming series from Disney, Marvel’s Loki starring Thor’s brother and sometimes nemesis, Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Owen Wilson as Mobius from the Time Variance Authority.

Majors portrayed a Kang The Conqueror timeline variant.  Majors as Kang the Conqueror made another appearance in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness alongside Elizabeth Olsen as The Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff.

To say that the actors are all talented and capable of carrying their roles is an understatement.  Every performer hits their mark like clockwork but that does not diminish the fact that this movie loses momentum halfway and becomes an irritating voyeuristic ride some viewers were hoping they could skip over to the final few frames of the story. 

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