Womp womp. The “Ant-Man” films already felt like an afterthought placeholder in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The leaden, forgettable “Quantumania” sequel doesn’t change that.
, a thief-turned-hero who’s the beneficiary of a techno-fangled suit created by Hank Pym that allows him to magically make himself bigger and smaller.
A chore of diminishing returns, it’s an adventure that plays out almost wholly on green screens, here used by desktop artists to realize the Quantum Realm, a subatomic world that resembles a cross between, except with far more garish and muddy blues, oranges, and yellows. It’s a murky mess of an artificial setting that no doubt made filming during COVID easier, not that the pandemic is any excuse for the chintzy aesthetics and leaden writing of this forgettable franchise entry.
From his semi-comprehensible diatribes, one gleans that he’s a powerful visionary who learned how to traverse time . After seeing that the various multiverse versions of himself were actually breaking time , Kang waged war against his doppelgangers, the goal being to destroy every universe that opposed him. Or something like that. He also suffered great losses, although fans will apparently have to wait to hear about them in future films.
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