ANT MAN 3 REVIEW: Does Quantumania Actually Suck? | ScreenCrush Rewind

Our Ant Man 3 review is here! Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has a horrendous Rotten Tomatoes score, but MCU fans love it. So has the Marvel Cinematic Universe lost its luster? Or do we just need more Avengers films? Colton Ogburn and Matt Singer explain their reviews.

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First of all, disclaimer, I kind of hate rotten tomatoes, and how it’s now used as a marketing tool. It used to just be an easy way to access several reviews of a movie, and now for some reason, this aggregate score is being used to measure if a movie is good or bad. And the audience score tells me even less about a movie’s quality, because they can easily be reviewed-bombed by angry nerds. But I do think it's interesting that the audience score is so high for this movie. It makes me wonder, have critics turned on the MCU?

I mean, it is easy to resent the Marvel entertainment juggernaut. They take up so many screens in theaters that indie movies no longer have a shot, and they seem to be pervasive in every part of our culture. But that’s because…for the most part…everything Marvel makes is really good–like Quantumania.

And I will admit that it is in my interest to love Marvel movies, and for all of you to love Marvel movies, because then I get to explain them. But when something is disappointing–like Love and Thunder, I let you know. But this was by far my favorite Ant-Man movie, and it’s streets ahead of Ant-Man and the Wasp.

The first Ant-Man was a good movie, and a fun departure from the format of most MCU films. However, its rep was damaged right out the gate because Marvel originally hired the brilliant Edgar Wright to create the film, and then they parted ways. So we were always going to judge that film based on what it could have been.

But I love everyman hero characters, the normal guys who aren;t geniuses or super soldiers, and scott lang is that guy [clip].

And the second movie was also fun, mostly because of the people who weren;t even superheroes [clip, card go?]. But the whole story about the hot potato lb, and Ghost–really grated on me on rewatches. Both Ghost and the Pyms want to rescue Janet from the quantum realm, and yet–they’re fighting? Is Bill Foster actually a good guy? Janet has quantum powers until she doesn’t? It’s just not the MCU’s strongest movie. It’s fun, but it never felt like it had an arc, or a theme–it was just the movie we had to watch before Endgame [scott in QR]

But Quantumania was the perfect ending to a trilogy. It took elements and ideas from the films and tied them all together in something fun and new. This film did for ant-man what Ragnarok did for Thor.

I covered a lot of these in our easter egg video, but this movie passes off a lot of elements that were introduced in ant-man. Like Hank saying [earn a look in daughter’s eye]. IN this movie, Casie is an activist who is disappointed that Scott is not using his great power for great responsibility. And at the end of the movie, he stands and fights kang. This isn;t really something we’ve seen scott do before–he makes the heroic choice when he doesn't have too.

Or, the fact that controlling ants is a dumb, silly power–but Hank turns this into an epic ability that makes him god king of an extremely advanced civilization.

I also saw a few people online complaining that this movie was too much like Rick and Morty. A valid criticism, since former Rick and Morty writer Jeff Loveness wrote the screenplay. And the two do share certain elements–like the councils or rick and kang, a microverse, and weird alien cultures. But these are not concepts that were original to rick and morty, Marvel has had the microverse for decades, and the Council of Kangs first appeared in avengers 267, in 1986. That’s before a lot of you were even born. Like you.

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I mean, no one in particular, but wouldn;t it be cool if like one person got real freaked out when I did that?

Doug: Yeah, like Blake. I’m talking to you Blake.