The Honest Trailers people… were not fans of ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA. That’s fair: I liked Ant-Man as a low-stake superhero series, too. I had fun at this movie, but I’m not gonna lie and say it was better than the other two.
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Selectively because there’s a bunch of half-empty articles out there on the subject:
Continue reading ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA has a selectively bad $120M opening.Director Peyton Reed’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania certainly didn’t disappoint in its domestic box debut, with the film flying to a four-day opening of $120 million, one of the best showings ever for the Presidents Day holiday and by far the biggest start for Marvel’s low-key franchise.
Yet the third installment of the Paul Rudd-Evangeline Lilly series is still a cautionary win for Marvel Studios and Disney, which are at a critical juncture as Marvel kicks off Phase 5, and conquering hero Bob Iger returns as Walt Disney Co. CEO. With a 47 percent rating, the film is tied with Eternals (2021) for Marvel’s lowest Rotten Tomatoes score, and perhaps more telling, it earned a B CinemaScore from audiences, one of the few Marvel titles to do so.
Short version: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA is basically a parody of… the higher-stakes MCU movies. I do not mean this in a bad way.
Continue reading My mini-review of ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA.I don’t know if I want them to take the ANT-MAN AND THE WASP series seriously. The series is at its best when it’s aware of just how goofy the premise is, and somebody gave them money to make it properly anyway. I get that it’s time for ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA to join the Kirby Era of the MCU, but still…
I keep wanting to write ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA with two Ms. Not that either is actually a word in English. Just a quirk of my brain, I guess.
Not gonna lie: I hope this movie is sillier than it looks. I liked how non-apocalyptic the stakes of the first two movies were. I’m in favor of continuing the trend.
